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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [228v] (461/706)
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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MIS—MUC
MISKINAVAR— Elev. 4,950'. 1
A village in Kurdistan about 25 miles north-west of Kirmanshah and at the
28th mile on a road fromJuanrud to Kirmanshah. city. It contains about
15 to 20 houses inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis. It is on the right bank of the }
Kara-Su : a few willow trees. V/ater good and plentiful; supplies : 100 cows
300 sheep and goats j some cultivation near the river; good grazing about.—
(Vaughan.)
MITANLIS (?)—
1
A sect of free-thinkers in Persia, who deny everything which they cannot
prove by natural reason.— (Chesney.)
MITIM— «>
A village with cultivation, on a plateau 2 or 3 square miles in extent, a few
miles beyond Elruzkuh, on the road from Tehran to Shahrud through that
place.— (Napier.)
MIZAM—
A village in Azarbaijan, under the Savalan Dagh, 22 miles from Ahar, on
the road from Ahar to Ardabll.—-(tfoZmes.)
MIZAR—
A village in Azarbaijan containing about twenty houses, situated on the
spur of a hill between Sauj Bulagh and Yangijeh to the right of the road
from Ahar to Ardabil.— (Holmes ; Todd.)
MUALA—
A halting place, 8 miles from Anarak, on the road from Blabanak to Nam.— ''
(MacGregor.)
MUBARAKABAD—
A village in the hills of the Yailaq buluk of Kurdistan. In the winter the
inhabitants move to S’aidabad (1902).
MUBARAKI— M
A village situated to the right of the road, about 50 miles beyond Isfahan
on the way to Burujird in upper Lanjan near Chamani, belonging to the Zill
us-Sultan.— (Preece, 1893.)
MUBARAKlN— Elev. 5,287'.
A village of 15 houses, 126 miles from Tehran, on the road to Hamadan
Very dirty and infested with bugs.—(5cAmd^er.)
MUCHl KHAN— * <
A village in Kirmanshah situated in the Bilawar valley about 33 miles ,
north of Kirman^hah city. It contains about 12 houses inhabited by Bila-
wari Kurds, a few trees, chiefly willows, and some cultivation; water from
stream ; supplies : 120 sheep and goats.—(Vaughan.) ^
MUCHINAK- ^
A village at the northern end of the Dukhan district on the slopes of the
Kilzildagh and to the right of the Tehran-Hamadan road.— (Schindler.) ,
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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'
- Pages
- 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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