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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [210r] (424/706)
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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MAHI—MAHM
407
MAHIaBAD (Maiawa)—
A village in Kirmanshah on the road from Kirmanshah city to Juanrud and
10 miles north of that city. It contains about 20 houses ; no trees ; some
crops and cultivation; water from springs and a stream.— (Vaughan,)
MAHIAN or MAHIUN—(Guest-loving)—
A village, 4 miles east of Damghan.— (Schindler.)
MAHIBULAGH—
A village of eight houses in Kurdistan, 12| miles south of Sanjud on
the road to Tikantappeh on the Tabriz-Kirmanshah road^by Binab and Sain
Kaleh.— (Napier.)
MAHINKUH—
A mountain of limestone, of tabular shape, 1 mile to the left of the Tabriz-
Kirmanshah road, about 60 miles from Kirmanshah in Kurdistan.—
(Napier.)
MAHMtjDlBlD (No. 1)—
A village in Mazandaran on the east bank of the river Harhaz. It is the
terminus on the sea of the Amul-Mahmudabad railway, a project of one
Haji Muhammed Hasan, who hoped by means of this railway to obtain
a monopoly of the carrying trade between the Caspian and Tehran, Amul
being ony six marches as opposed to seven from Mashad-i-Sir and ten from
Rasht to Tehran. He built five caravansarais and shops at Mahmudabad,
but omitted to improve the entrance to the murdab, and goods can only be
landed by lighters.
The railway was laid, but the Europeans in charge not being paid left
in disgust, and the whole enterprise has now fallen through and the line
is not in working order.— (Curzon.)
MAHMUDABAD (No. 2)—
A village on the road to Tehran from Hamadan, about 62 miles from
the former.— (Taylor.)
MAHMUDABAD (No. 3)—
A small village between Hashmatabad and Shangun, on the road from
Isfahan to Burujird, from which it is 46| miles.— (Schindler.)
MAHMUDABAD (No. 4)—
A village at the foot of some bare rocky hills a few miles from Tehran
on the road to Meshed.— (Bellew.)
MAHMUDABAD (No. 5)—
A village 6 miles from Kazvin, to the right of the road thence to Rasht
just before it enters the hills.— (Eastwick.)
MAHMUDABAD (No. 6)—
A village 20 miles from Tehran to the right of the road to Hamadan, pro
perty of the Shah’s sister.— (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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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