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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [232v] (469/706)
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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452
iNAI—NAJ
The Persian telegraph line from Isfahan to Na'n is a simple wire supported
on wooden poles, and it runs along the road from Isfahan to Naim The wire
is uninsulated, being hung as a rule on iron nails driven into the posts, or
else on a projecting arm of wood, the remains of a branch lopped off from the
tree from which the pole was made. Another device, which seems commend
able on account of its simplicity, is to split the top of the pole with a hatchet
and pass the wire through the cleft. The poles vary in height from 18 feet
to about 6 feet. This is accounted for by firewood being very scarce on
the road, and benighted travellers cutting off the lower portions of the poles
for this purpose. There appears to be one clerk for this section, who is to
be found sometimes at the Naln and at other times at the Kuhpa station.
Notwithstanding these defects, messages travel through from Yazd to
Isfahan without any serious delay.— {Vaughan, 1890.)
NAlN (District).
The district extends from south-east to north-west some 54 miles and
from north-east to south-west some 77 miles; there are eight villages and
some three hundred hamlets in this piece of country. The population
is small and the district not fertile, mainly desert. The productions, barley,
wheat, cotton, melons, grapes and pomegranates, all in small quantities.
Caravans go to Khorasan Nam and Nishapur. See also Nam town.—•
{Schindler.)
NAlN KHUAN—
The name of one of the passes of the Zagros, or Kurdistan range,
between Persian territory and Bebeh.
NAIYISTANAK—
A village with water, supplies, sarai, and a post-house, 24 miles north
west of Nain on the road thence to Kashan. The valley between this vil
lage and Nam is comparatively thickly populated and well cultivated. {Mac-
G egor.)
NAIZAR—
A village on the righfbank of the'Qum river, in the Kinar-i-Rudkaneh
district 20 miles south of Qum. It has walnut trees and a large area of crops.
-{Stack.)
najafabad—
A village of 300 houses, one of the largest places in the district of Garus. —
i (Napier.)
NAJAF KHAN—
A village of 50 houses in the centre of the Mahidasht plain of Kirman-
shah. Abundant water from kdriz streams tapping the Ab-i-Marik and
from springs. There are some fine gardens and groves of poplars. The
j village lies midway between the road to Kirmanshah over the Kurkur
range by the Kurkur and Aliavar passes. The people are Kurds: large
numbers of sheep and goats are pastured on the Mahidasht plain: no fuel
nearer than the Kurkur range, 2 miles distant.— {Burton.)
NAQDI—
A village on the borders of Luristan. It lies 8 miles from Burujird on
the road to Qum.— {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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