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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [217r] (438/706)
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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MARG—MAPJ
421
MARGH—Elev> 4,950'.
The first post house on the Shiraz road, 12 miles from Isfahan.
The accommodation is limited ; has a fair water-supply.— (Arbuthnot
1905.)
MARHAD— Vide ARMAK.
A village in the Qum district, south of the town of Qum, in the sub
district of Ardahal (q. v.).—(Keith-Abbott.)
MARHAMATABAD—
A village 14 miles south of Damghan on the road to Frat. It was up
to a few years ago (1870) called Qazlabad.—(ScAmfc.)
MARIK—
A river of Kirmanshah, which rises in the plain 16 miles due south of
Mahidasht and, passing that village, flows in a northerly direction till it joins
the Kara-Su m the plain of Kirmanshah. This river in dry weather is very
insignificant, but in the winter it becomes very impetuous, deep, and rapid. -
(Jones.)
MARlVAN—(village) Lat. 35° 31'; Long. 46° 19'; Elev. 4,725'.
A village and fort on a plain of the same name, situated among valleys
with good grazing ground, it is the largest of the dependencies of Sinneh.
The lofty and rugged mountains of Avroman overlook the fort on its
south aspect; near as they appear to be, they are distant 6 farsakhs, or
a long day’s march. There are three passes which lead up the Avroman
hills by precipitous paths so narrow that two people cannot go abreast.
The hills round Marlvan and Avroman are densely covered with a fine
forest of oak, walnut, chenar, or plane tree and various wild fruit-trees.
The gathering of gall-nuts is one of the chief occupations of the people and
the nuts are exported, not to Sulaimanleh in Turkish Kurdistan, which is
comparatively near, but to Hamadan, some four marches beyond Sinneh
For description of fort see under Marlvan (district).
MARlVAN—(District).
° 1 i ie 18 hul{iks ° f Kurdist a n > west of Sinandij, and about 30 miles
n°Qiox 0 i B ? ne ^ 1 adj 7 01 7 n - 7 n ? the Turkisl1 frontier ’ which ’ however, is not yet
(1J12) fixed. The buluk has 200 villages, and a population of about 30 000
The yearly taxes were 16,550 krdns but now (1902) are somewhat more!
^ dftory.-The mhabitants are much like those of Baneh, savage, fierce,
bloodthirsty. 2,000 of the men are armed with breech-loading rifles. The
old castle of Marlvan was destroyed in 1635 by order of the Shah Safi I
to prevent Kurdish rebel chiefs taking refuge in it. Farhad Mirza, Mu’tamid
ud'Dauleh, Governor of Kurdistan built a new fort in 1871 and placed
on its bastions two 9-pounder guns and two 18-pounder guns. He also
provided for a good water-supply by having a special kandt (underground
channel) dug At the same time Prince Farhad Mirza settled some
families at the foot of the fort and named the settlement Shahabad.
Muhammad Ah Khan, Zafar-ul-Mulk, afterwards added some buildings
a caravansarai, a hammiim, and a garden with another kandt.
The fort is a substantial stone enclosure, about 300 yards square but
as the cement is friable, it requires frequent repair. It is commanded bv
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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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