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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [211r] (426/706)
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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MAI—MAH
409
Its population is about 3000. It is frequently mentioned in history.
In the northern part of the town stands the Bashnighan castle with a draw
bridge. In the southern part stands the castle called Kaleh-i-Hir, surrounded
by a double wall. Maibud with its deep ditch and strong walls and towers
and only two small well-defended gates must have been an almost impreg
nable place in former times. Of the colleges, mosques, and other public
buildings of the Muzafari family in the 13th and 14th century nothing is now
(1879) to be seen. South of the town and close to it is the grave of a Sultan
Rashid. [Abbott ; Smith ; E. Smith ; Floyer ; Sykes ; Schindler, 1879.)
MAID AN—
A village in lower Silakhur, south of Burujird, and 181 miles from that place
by the road, the right side of the Tahij river.— [Schindler.)
MAIDANJIG—
A large village in Azarbaijan, 10 miles south of Bunab, to the left of the
road to Sauj Bulagh.— [Gerard.)
MAIDANJIQ-r
A large village in Azarbaijan, on the road from Maragheh to Mianduab
and 2 miles north-east of Malik Ktm&l.—[Schindler.)
MAHIDASHT or MAIDASHT—Elev. 5,050'.
_A village 18 miles west of Kirmanshah on the main road thence to Ragh'
dad, situated in the centre of the fertile plain of the Mahidasht on the right
bank of Ab-i-Mark, a stream of fresh water, slightly muddy, about 20 yards
broad, fordable in summer and spanned by a fine brick bridge, There are
about 60 houses with 2 or 3 shops and a caravansarai built by Shah ’Abbas,
about 80 yards square, capable of accommodating 200 men and 200 horses,
recently in 1902 repaired by ’Ala-ud-Dauleh. The place is inhabited by Kal-
hur Kurds, a large proportion of whom migrate during the winter to Mandall
and Khaniqln with their flocks. The inhabitants of the village appear to be
half nomad, many of them spending a portion of the summer in tents adjoin
ing their houses in preference to dwelling in them. Their houses are largely
used as lodgings for pilgrims to Karbala. Roads run from here to Gavarra
(Guowara on map), distance 25 miles, and thence to Karind and Mian Taq
(same place as S-urkhedizeh, V'tde Karind and Surkhedizeh) and also south
east along the Ab-i-Mark into Luristan.
Supplies : cattle, including plough oxen 200, horses 30, donkevs 100, sheep
2,000, goats 4,000.— [Vaughan.)
MAHIDASHT (MAIDASHT.)-
Bul~tk or district of Mahidasht.—
Chief place, village of the caravansarai of Mahidasht, the first stage or
the road from Kirmanshah to Baghdad. Governor Haji Agha Khan, wh<
is answerable for the revenue.
. The °f Mahidasht is* some 10 miles in breadth and 70 miles in length
rt is watered by numerous irrigation canals and kandts and by the rive:
Mark. There are also a number of springs on Hie plain and on the adjacen
onnrfa tf 111 s ^ eS; r ^ se i n many instances to numerous streams whicl
CoOOGSB
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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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