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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [197r] (398/706)
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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KULA—KULE
381
KULAN—
A plain in Persian Kurdistan on the borders of Turkish territory. It takes
its name from a small village in the hills shutting it in on the north. The
plain is passed through between Panjvin (Turkish) and Marivan on the
road from the former to Sinneh.— (T. C. Plowden.)
KULAN or AB-I-KULAN—
A stream forming one of the somces of the Gamasiab ; it rises east of
Daulatabad near Hamadan, flows west, crossing the road from Daulatabad
to Nihavand at 2^ miles. It is here 30 feet wide and 1 to 2 feet deep (April)
and is crossed by a bridge.— {Schindler.)
KULAPAH—Bala Darband.
A village of the Bala Darband district. Together with Iga it pays Tcrdns
407*018 cash and Kharwdrs 10-20-0 grain mdliydt:—{Rabino.)
KULAPAH—Kalhurs.
A branch of the Kalhur tribe, numbering 500 families, of nomads and
sedentary rayyats. Their chief is Nasrullah. Their Garmsirs are Takht
Khan, in Gilan and their Sardsirs, Millehsar in Ravand.
They furnish one company to the Kalhur regiment—(Roitno, 1907.)
KULABIS—Elev. 6,830'.
A small village, about 15| miles from Imamzadeh Ism’ail towards Isfahan.
It is on a shallow stream, 10 feet wide, flowing into the Zindeh Bud.—
{Bell, 1884.)
KULASH1K—
A place in Kirmanshah where the Slyah Slyah clan of Kalhurs reside.—
{Plowden.)
KULBAD—
A place in Mazandaran, where there are silver, copper and lead mines which
are said to be well worth working.— {Eastwick.) A Sub-district of AshraL
— {Rahino.)
KULBAD—
A village in Mazandaran, 1 mile west of the boundary of that province
with that of Astarabad.
| The boundary is marked by a dry ditch, about 10 yards wide and 5
yards deep, constructed originally as a defence against the Turkomans,
and known as the Jar-i-Kulbad. It extended from the mountains to the
sea, but it is in many places obliterated, the banks having fallen in and
become overgrown with vegetation. It is 18 miles from Ashraf and 8
miles from Gaz.
There is a river of the same name as the village 1 mile west of the Jar-i-
Kulbad, with a bed about 50 yards wide, which is quite dry in the winter,
but which would be very difficult to ford in the spring on account of the large
stones in the channel.— {Holmes.)
Kuba Rud-Gauhar Barun, a branch of the Nika liver.— {Rabino.)
KULEJAR—
A village in the Ardahal division of the Qum district.— {K. Abbott.)
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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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