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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [195r] (394/706)
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-TA—KUHM
377
KCH-I-TARUNA—
A ridge just to the north of Yazd.— (MacGregor.)
KtJH-I-TULIND—
Some hills a few miles north-west of Lasgird.— (Schindler).
KUH-I-TUZ—
A spur running in a south-westerly direction from the Flruzkuh range. It
is a low ridge of red marl, and is crossed by the Tehran-Samnan road by the
Sardarreh defile ; large quantities of salt are found here.— (Bellew.)
KtJH-I-VARJIN—Elev. 7,000'.
A mountain famous for moufflon, in the Upper Jajrud valley, The villages
Kund and Galandavak (q. v.) lie at its foot. It is part of the royal pre
serves.
KUH-I-YAR—
A mountain range covered with oak scrub in Kirmanshah, 10 miles south
west of Kirmanshah.— (Gerard.)
KUH-I-YAZDIGIRD—or YAZDIJIRD—
A mountain between Daulatabad Malayar, and Burujird. Legend says
Yazdijird halted here after his defeat at the battle of Nihavand A. D. 641.
Ruins of fort on top.— (Schindler.)
KUH-I-ZAGHEH—
A range of hills, crossed on the road to Malayar 26J miles from Hamadan.
-^(Schindler.)
KUH-I-ZARlN KAMAR—
A range bounding the valley of Samnan from Mazandaran. It is so
called from plants, said to yield gold on distillation, which grow upon it.
(Rozario.)
KUH-KANABAREH—
A mountain, part of the Sahand chain, in Azarbaijan, seen to the north
west from ’Ajabshahr.— (Gerard.)
KUHKULLA HALAT—
A high peak close to the Kuh-i-Surakh near Bayaza in the Khur district.
There are the ruins of a fort on its summit. A spring half-way up the moun
tain supplied a tank, which was kept filled, on the top of the hill.—(Fau^Aan,
1890.)
KUHMARWAH—
A range of mountains in Yazd which is really a continuation beyond Shir-
kuh of the Kuh Daviran. The distance between it and the parallel range of
Slah Kuh is some 40 miles. It consists of mere black sierras, high enough
to deserve the name of mountains, but not high enough to feed perennial
streams or support villages. The north-western continuation of the Marwah
range broadens and rises greatly as it goes on, till it expands into the moun
tain region north and north-east of Isfahan, with peaks 11,000' high.— (Stack.)
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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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