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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [227v] (459/706)
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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442
MIL—MTEfc
MILLEH-Y’AQUB.—Zuhab.
A place midway between Qasr-i-Shmn, and Sar-i-pul-i-Zuhab at the con
fluence of the Ab-i-Direh with the Hulvan river. It is 2 farsakhs from Sar-i-
pul-i-Zuhab, numbers 15 houses under Katkhuda Husain Beg. Cultivation
rice and grain. The river Hulvan passes close by the village and its waters
are used for irrigating the rice fields.
450 inhabitants; cultivation : wheat ddlml. (Post Master, Sar-i-pul-i-
Zuhab; Rabino, 1907.)
MINKRl—
A small section of the Mikri tribe (q. v.), whose summer quarters are
south and south-east of Sauj Bulagh.— (Soane, 1910.)
minavAr—
A village, 15 miles north of Tabriz.— (Schindler.)
MINIBHl.—
A sub-division of the Qasimkhani branch of Kalhurs.
The Minishis number 300 nomed families. Their chief is Mahdi Khan
Sultan. Their garmsirs are at GUan and their sardsirs at Barfabad, though
Plowden and Mr. Lelo x said that they were sedentary in the plain of Kifrau
— (Plowden; Leleux; Rabino 1907.)
MIRAbAD—
A large village with many gardens, on the Ab-i-Kulan, 5 miles north-west
of Daulatabad Malayar.— (Schindler.)
MiRADEH— Elev. 5,450'.
A village of forty houses in Azarbaljan, 17 miles south-west of Saqqiz on
the road to Sulaimanieh via Panjvln.— (Gerard.)
MIRA KARIND—
A halting-place on the summer route from Smneh to Zuhab, about 48
miles south of the former place. This route is rendered impracticable in
winter by snow. (Gerard.)
MlRAVAND—
A village 10 miles from Kashan, on the road to Isfahan, from which it is
90 miles distant. It is situated to the east of the road, and is inhabited by
a few families of Illats.— (Clerk.)
MlRAZ—(MIR ’AZlZl ?)
A village in Kirmanshah about 27 miles north-west of Kirmanshah city on
the road, thence to Juanrud and situated on the right bank of the Kara-Su.
It contains about 20 houses inhabited by Sinjabls. It has a good grove of
trees, crops and cultivation. Water from the river ; supplies : 50 cows, 200
sheep and goats ; it is 32 miles from Kirmanshah by road and 25 miles from
Juanrud. Elevation 4,300'.—(I aughan.)
MlREH— Elev. 7,600'. MIRAJ, MIRJ.
A village of fifty houses in Mazandaran situated on the banks of the Yalfi
river about 9 miles south of Baladeh, on the road to. Ch.ashmeh-i-Shah.—
(Lovett.)
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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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