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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [199r] (402/706)
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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RUR BU—KURD
385
KUR BULAK—(Zir Darband)
The name of three villages in Kirmanshah situated in the Kara Su valley
and about 18 miles north-west of Kirmanshah city.
They contain in all about 40 houses inhabited by Zanganeh Kurds ; no
trees. Some crops and cultivation ; good grazing ; no firewood ; water from
wells ; animals water at.the Kara Su a mile.off to the east; supplies : chopped
straw, 200 cows, 600 sheep and goats, a few'horses and donkeys.—(Fau^aw.)
KUR-BUNAS—
A halting-place in Yazd, 60 miles north by east of that place on the road
to Naiband. It is a large depression containing salt water about 3 miles
round. There is one spring of brackish water just drinkable.— (/Stewart.)
KURCHIM—
A halting-place in a dreary cheerless tract of Azarbaijan, one march south
of Ardabil.— (Morier.)
KURDAN—Kiev. 4,420'.
A large village on the Kurdan river which is crossed by a two-arched bridge
about a mile below the village. The river flows through a narrow valley with
steep sides. It has 150 houses and all its land, which is good, producing
wheat, barley and rice, belongs, to the crown. It has excellent' water —
(Schindler.)
KURDAGAN (GIRDAKAN or KUROGAN)—
A village of about 80 families in the -Tasb valley of the province of Qum*
It has a mosque, a bath and an imamzadeh.— (Schindler.)
KURDEH—
A vhlage ofabout 50 houses of Kurds, the property (1897) of Zahir-ul-Mulk
of Kirmanshah. It Les 1 mile to the east of the Kirmanshah-Kandula
road about 4 miles from the latter ; is built at the base of a large mound which
is crowned with the ruins of an old fort; | mile to the east rises a lofty "bare
and rounded mountain. The village is surrounded by poplars and fruit trees
and cultivated fields , water plentiful from mountain springs (1897) (Jiur
ton.) '
KURD-FBALA (Upper Kurd)—Elev. 7,820', KURDI-I-MlANFH _
(Middle Kurd), KURD-I-PAIN (Lower Kurd)—Elev. 7,770'
Three miserable villages inhabited principally by Armenians on the 0“
plateau (q. n.) on the Burujird-Isfahan road, 60 to 63 miles from the Gfw
they belong to the ZiU-ua-Sultan ; 26 houses, 116 people. Water and
very limited. Kurd-i-Pam is also called Daulatabad.-(&&' ii ^ er ; p™" 6 ,
KURDISTAN—(or Ardalan).
For a comprehensive history of the Province see Rabino’s “ Rcnnrf
Kurdistan.” report on
C300GSB
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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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