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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [193v] (391/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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KUH-I-PA—KtlH-I-SA
K0H-I-PARIS—
A mountain at the north-western end of the Kuh-i-Shuturan {vide Vol. Ill)
south-east of Bahrain. It has some deep holes (caves ?) of which it is relat
ed that a shepherd having let himself down one of them, by a rope which
took 24 hours to unwind, to find a sheep which had fallen into it, saw at the
bottom some beautiful gardens with wonderful trees. He brought some
leaves of the trees up with him as a souvenir and became a rich man as the
leaves were emeralds.— {Schindler).
KUH-I-PlRUZ—
A mountain at the head of the Hasan KhanI valley north-west of Kazvin.
It is a westerly spur of the Kharzan Kuh and has the Aspabin valley on its
west.— {Schindler).
KOH-I-QAGHAZAN—
The hills between the Kharzan and Girishkin (Kellehshiken, Keleshken,
etc.), mountains, nearly west of Kazvln.— {Schindler).
KtJH-I-KARA AGHAJ—
A hill on the eastern side of the Jajrud district {q. v.). — {Schindler).
KUH-I-QlZAK (the goose mountain)—■
A mountain between Burujird and Sultanabad, 16 miles west of Sultana-
bad.— {Schindler).
KtJH-I-QULIABAD—
Some hills to the right of the Tehran-Hamadan road, north of Zarreh
(145 miles from Tehran). They form the northern boundary of the
Darreh-i-Gazin district.— {Schindler).
KUH-I-QURZlNA—
A mountain, 4 miles south-east of Hamadan.— {Schindler).
KUH-I-RASTBAND—
Also Rasvand, a mountain in the Kazzaz district, between Burujird and
Sultanabad.— {Schindler).
KUH-I-SAHAN 0—
A range of mountains in Azarbaijan, lying to the south-east of Tabriz.
Its western undulations reach to within a mile of Tabriz.— {Napier.)
KUH-I-SALEH—
A mountain in Isfahan 16 miles north-west of town of that name.—
(Floyer).
KUH-I-SANGAR—
A range of hills, about 40 miles west of Hamadan, in which the Ab-i-
Shlrwan takes its rise.
KUH-I-SARABAND—
A mountain, a few miles east of the Kuh-i-Malamak {q.v.). — {Schindler).
KUH-I-SARD—Elev. 10,600'.
A peak in Mazandaran passed on the road between Tehran and Astrabad.
It lies to the left of the pass traversed between Ask and Lesan.— {Beresjord
Lovett).
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
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- 1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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