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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [234r] (472/706)
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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NAR—NAS
455
NARAK—
A large straggling place, situated on the main caravan road between
Mahallat and Kashan via Azdahal, 26 miles from the former and a few
miles from Jasb, some of the houses are well built. The people are some
what turbulent It is watered by a stream rising in the Kuh-i-Burzeh,
the overflow running into the Jasb river near Delijan, and two Jcdnats; is
under the Government of Mahallat There are 3,000 people; 48,000 lbs.
or grain are sown yearly The Rakha ground at the upper end of the Ardahai
valley belongs to Narak. {Schindler.)
NARAN—
A small village of 20 houses, in the Jajrud valley, 2| miles from Galandavak
{q.v.) on the road thence to Afcha {q. v.) — {Schindler )
NARGAN—
A village 24 miles from Sagziabad, on the road thence to Sultanieh via
Ziabad, and 22 miles from Kazvin to the left of the post road thence to Tabriz.
The name is also pronounced Narjeh.— {Schindler.)
NARISHUM—
(Popularly explained as a contraction of Nahar wa Sham—dinner and
supper.) A large village one mile north-west of Damghan.— {Schindler.)
NARMAK—
A hamlet some 9 miles from Qulhak, near Tehran on the road from the
former to Firuzkuh.— {Namier.)
NASHAN—
A halting-place in a barren plain, 128 miles from Kashan, on the road to
Yazd.— {Gibbons.)
NASHTARUD—
A river in Mazandaran, flowing into the Caspian between Zavar and
Abbasabad, and about 3 miles from the former village.— {Holmes.)
NASIK, cf. nazik, p. 462—
A village in Azarbaijan, 3 stages north of Khdi and 7 miles south of
’Abbasabad.— {MacGregor.)
NASIMABAD—
A village 10 miles north-west of Varpusht on the road from Isfahan to
Burn j ird.— {Schindler.)
NASlRABAD—
A village in Kurdistan, 7 miles north of Bijar, on the caravan road to
Tabriz .—{N ayier. )
NASRABAD (1)—
A village about 1 mile from Yazd, towards Maibud. It is in the Pish-
kuh sub-division.— {Abbott; MacGregor.)
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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