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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [196v] (397/706)
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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1
380 K0H—KUL
KCBZILU—
A mountain in Kirmanshah 16 miles north of Kirmanshah city and over
looking the Bilawar valley ; it is about 9,500 feet in height. Its northern
slope is very precipitous, its southern one being accessible and rising gradual
ly up from a high plateau that connects it with the Kinisht and Baluch
mountains.—( Vaughan.)
KUJAGHAZ—
A large village with extensive gardens, 5f miles from Daulatabad on the
road, thence to Nihavand.— {Schindler.)
KUJAGHAZ—
i A half-ruined village of forty houses between Nihavand and Daulatabad,
at 5| miles from the latter.—( W. 0. Report on Persia, Part II, Route 49.)
KUJAN—
A fine village surrounded by gardens, a few miles beyond Khunsar on the
road to Gulpalgan.— {Preece, 1893.)
KUJAVAR—
A village in Azarbaijan 8 miles west of Tabriz, on the left bank of the Aji
Chal.— {Schindler.)
KUJUR (District)—
A district in Mazandaran, consisting of the valleys of Pul and Bujur adjoin- r ,.
ing the district of Kalarustaq to the east.— {Holmes.)
KUJljR river—
A river of Mazandaran, which rises in the north of Baladeh village
and flows into the Caspian, after penetrating the hills north of Kujur. Its
tributaries are the Keligan, Narudbar and Firuzkala.— {Stal.)
KU KB ASH AH—
A village on the right slope of the mountains, 14 miles south of Tabriz, on
the road to Gugan— {Gerard.)
KULlBAD—
A village in Lower Silakhur, 24f miles from Burujird on the road thence to
Isfahan.— {Schindler.)
kulah-i-qazi—
A well-defined peak among the mountains, visible on the road from Isfahan
to Gulnabad, en route to Yazd.— {E. Smith.)
KULAH SAHRA—
A halting-place, three marches from Sinneh on the road to Kirmanshah.—
{Webb.)
KULAIN—
A village south of Tehran, about 22 miles south-east of Kinarigird —
{Schindler.)
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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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