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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [212r] (428/706)
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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TIie Kuli-i-Lalabait, whicli ends at the Mahidasht-Harunabad road ia
continued by the Gardaneh Kurkur, which extends up to Gahwareh, changing
its name into Milieh-Maikhan (length 2 farsakhs) then into Kal-i-Kazi (length
| farsakh), and finally into Milleh Kabud, this last mountain extending up to
Gahwareh.
The main road to Mahidasht, crosses the plain forming an angle of 110°
with the mountain bordering the plain .—(Vaughan ; Rabino, 1907.)
(For a list of the villages, and their revenues sec Rabino’s “ Gazetteer of
Kirmanshah, 1907).”
MAIKURIKHAN on MAHDI QULI KHAN.—
A permanent stream in the northern end of Gilan, north of Kuruk, rising
in Pushta, between the two ranges of the Bazi Daraz, flowing into the Ab-i-
Gilan and thence to the Hulvam (Soane, 1912.)
MAIMEH—Kiev. 6,670'.
A little town of 400 houses in the Jusqan province. It is a pleasant
litTe place, situated on a plain, with extensive gardens, watered by kanals
and wells. Good accommodation for travellers.— (Schindler.)
MAIMUN—Lat. 32° 2'; Long.54°6'2". MAIMANEH, MAIMANAK, MAI-
MUNEH—
A vil’age about 14 miles north-west of Yazd, and 17| miles due north
of Taft, on the road from Yazd to Isfahan.— (St. John.)
MAJARD (?)—
A village in Yazd near the caravansarai of Maibud between Isfahan and
Yazd.— (Abbott.)
MAJADEH—
A village half way between Ardakan and Maibud.
MAJlDABAD (1)—
A village in the district of Saveh 17 miles from Saveh, on the road to
Qum. The village is a ruin, but it has a new and well-constructed brick
caravansarai .—(Kinneir ; Abbott.)
MAJlDABAD (2)—
Some gardens and an enclosure so called, about 10J miles from Gulhak
near Tehran, on the road thence to Eiruzkuh.—(Aapter.)
MAKU (District).
Maku is the general name given to the north-west corner of Azarbai-
jan. The district which takes its name from the mountain stronghold
of Maku extends from the Darreh Sham and Karaziadin valleys on the east,
to Awajik on the west and from Mount Ararat (Agra Dagh) on the north
to Kara Aineh [Chalderan] on the south. Its mountain system consists of
the Agra Dagh range, extending from south-east to north west, some 46
miles in length; parallel to it and separated by the Bayazid-Danalu valley
are the mountains ofMakfi, which, commencing in low hills, north of Kara-
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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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