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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [224r] (452/706)
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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MAZ—MIA
435
MAZR’AEH-KCH-I-SAFlD—
Some fields in the Qumriid division of Qum where the Kallehkuh Arabs
in charge of the Shah’s camels camp in summer and spring.—(<Sc/imrfZer.)
MEHRABAN—
A buluk of Hamadan.—About 100 villages. Bordered north by Khamseh,
north and west by Isfandabad, east by Sardarud and south by Dumb va
Tawabeh. The population is composed of Turks and Khudabandelus. All
t he cultivaf ion is daivrii and there are no kandts. The Mehraban wheat is
the best in Hamadan. There is good sheep grazing in this district and
large quantities of ghl are produced. No opium is cultivated. Only a few
carpets of inferior quality are manufactured.
MEHRf—
A village in Mazandaran, 2 miles south-west of Saiyid Mahalla on the
road from Sari to Barfarush.— (Napier.) ’
MEHRUT—
26 * miIe8 fr ° m K§shSn 011 the road to Sultanabad .—(Preece
loyo.) > *
MlANABlD—
A smaH village 22J miles from Tehran, J mile to the left of the road
to Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
MIANDARBAND (1)—
A clan of southern Kurds, who live in the Kirmanshah Province —
(Gerard.) ' l '
MlANDARBAND (2)—
A valley in the Kirmanshah district between Kaklistan and Kamvaran
which is watered throughout its whole length by the Ab-i-Ra 7 aw^^r ,
Vanous Kurdish tribes, amongst which the Ahmadawand Behtui and
the Nanakali are most important, have their summer pastures in this
valley. The northern end of the valley closes in and forms the defile of
1 ang-i-Khurnawazan .—(Plow den.)
MlAN DARBAND (District or bulitk.)
This district extends from the district of Kirmanshah to the province
of Kurdistan, and to the districts of Kuliai and Pusht Darband It con
sists of the sub-districts of Bilawar, Amirabad and Palangan.
The inhabitants are mostly Ahmadavand Behtui.
The Mahall Zir Darband, which forms part of this buluk, is a plain water-
ed by the Ab-i-Razawar; and contains some 23 or 30 hamlets, averaging
from 10 to 30 houses apiece, one of which is Kaklistan, a halting-place
on the roaa to Sinneh (Sinandij), some 16 miles from KirmanshahT *
The district ot Mian Darband is also caHed Bilavar (q.v.) and Buluk-i
Sahseh (q.v.).
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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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