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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [231r] (466/706)
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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MURC—MUR I
449
Kadeli-Muhammad Hasan Khan has also no water of its own and dnnk ng
water is drawn from wells. Cultivation: daimi. The third village is
known as Hajiabad. Katkhuda:’Abbas. About 40 families. Cultivation
daimi. There is a spring of fresh water here. From this village to anoth
Murad Pashai, property of Muhammad Khan, heir of Qalb A i Khan, the
distance is | a jarsakh .The Katkhuda of this lash-named village is Kaka
Khan. About 20 families. Cultivation : dmmi. There is a spring of fres
water here. Industry : carpets. From here there is a road toDeh-Kade
’Ali Akbar, a distance of about i a farsakh. Deh-Kadeh Ali Akbar
situated at the foot of the mountain. (Mt®* «/ Customs,
Rabino, 1907.)
MURCHAGAN— _ \
A village on the road from Chigha-khur to Falat, 7 farsakhs from the for
mer.— (Schindler.)
MURCHEH KHUR (a so wrii ten MURCHEH-I-KHURD, MURCHEH
KHAR, MURCHIKAN, etc.)— Elev. 5,530'.
A village 30 miles kom Isfahan, on the road to Tehran in the Barkhar
bum of Isfahan. It is situated ou a plain, surrounded with cultivation, and
bounded to the south by high mountains running east and west There is a
watercourse (Umt) here and a good caravansarai adjoining. It also has a
mud-built fort, and contains some 200 houses. To these belong some gardens
which produce fruits of various kinds, and some fields where cotton and
castor, wheat and barley are cultivated. . . « , , ,
Here on the 13th November 1729, was fought a decisive battle between
the Afghans under Ashraf and the Persians under Nadir Shah ; the former
were totally defeated, losing 4,000 of their best men, while the loss of the
latter was but slight.
MURDAB—
The generic name for the backwaters on the sea coast of Gilan (q. v.) and
Mazandaran, where the various rivers empty themselves into the Caspian.
murdi—
A village in Azarbaijan 5 miles south-east of Maragheh on a river called
the Murdi Chai, which falls into the Lake of Urumieh.—(Moner.)
murdi CHAl—
The Murdi river has its name from the village Murdi, 5 miles south-east
of Mara^heh It rises on the southern slopes of the Sahand, flows in a
south-westerly direction to Malikandi, then turns west and after a few miles
north-west. It falls into the Urumieh lake, a few miles south-west of Bunab.
(Schindler.)
MURIABAD (?)—
A village close to Yazd, on its eastern side.—(H 66 o«.)
muristan, moristan—
A small district in Faridan, on the slopes of the Parsish Kuh, the summer
quarters of the Muri branch of the Chahar Lang Bakhtiaris* whence its name.
.— (Schindler.)
C300GSB
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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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