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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [229v] (463/706)
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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446
MUHAMAB—MUHAMM
MUHAMABAD—
A village in Azarbaljan, miles from Bari, on the road from Tabriz
to Sinneh, via Maragheh.— (Morier.)
MUHAMMAD ABAD (1)—
A village, about 11 miles from Yazd, on the road to Isfahan.-—(^466o«.)
MUHAMMADABAD (2)—
A village of 30 inhabited houses with a ruined fort in Yazd, about 27 miles
from Yazd, on the road to Isfahan.— (E. Smith.)
MUHAMMADABAD (3)—
A town in the Mianduab district of Azarbaijan, on the left bank of the
Jaghatu river, above its confluence with Lake Urumieh. There is a ferry over
the Jaghatu at this place on crazy skin-rafts. (Rawlinson.)
MUHAMMADABAD (4)—
A village in the Samnan district about a mile to the left of the road from
Samnan to Tehran and 12| miles from the former place.—(Schindler.)
MUHAMMADABAD (5)—
A village in the Damghan district, 6 miles south-east of Damghan.—-
{Schindler.)
MUHAMMAD ABADU—
Meaning the lesser Muhammadabad, a village 11£ m il es south of Dam
ghan.— {Schindler.)
MUHAMMAD! (1)—
A village in the Tirhan-Karwan district, about 6 | miles fromVarpusht
to the right of the road from Isfahan to Burujird and at the foot of the
Kuh-i-Muhammadi.— {q.v.) — {Schindler.)
MUHAMMAD! (2)—
A village of 20 houses in north-western Azarbaljan, about 10 miles north
of Khdi and two miles east of the Karaziadin road.—(Pico*, 1894.)
MUHAMMAD! (3)—
A village in the Naln district, containing 400 houses and a rained fort, 57
miles from Isfahan and 2 miles south-east of Nam.— {Schindler.)
MUHAMMADJIK—
A village in the Sam-kaleh district of Azarbaijan and about 4 miles
below the town of Sam-kaleh on the river Jaghatu. It is the residence of
the Chief of the Chardauri tribe, who has built himself a comfortable residence
and has planted a large garden in the usual oriental style, which is the won
der of the surrounding country.— {Rawlinson.)
MUHAMMAD QAJAB—
A village on the Guratu river {q. v.), north of the main road.^ Popula
tion, 100. Cultivation rice, wheat and barley. Now under Qadir Agha
Bajlan.— {Soane; 1912.)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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