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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [235r] (474/706)
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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NAT—NAU
457
and vid Hanjan 45 miles. The valley is very fertile and has an abun
dance of water, its climate is very good, it is celebrated for its pears and wal
nuts, peach and mulberry trees which grow to a great size and are very numer
ous. The population is about three thousand, and it is the chief town of the
district where the Governor of the province resides. It has a small bazaar, a
caravansarai and some mosques and baths ; one of the mosques has a minaret
123 feet in height. On a hill north-west of the town is the grave of a female re
lative of the Imam Riza named Rukhnieh Khatun. The town is divided into
upper and lower, the latter comprising the greater part. There is an old hunt
ing box of Shah ’Abbas in the neighbouring hills.— {Schindler.)
NATANZ RUD—
The central district of the N<' tanz province ; it is celebrated for its pears,
which are supposed to be the finest in Persia.
Villages of Natanz Rad with taxes as assessed in 1891.
Apushteh
Chaheh
Dasti jird ..
Fazlabad ..
Ibrahlmabad
Jarian ..
Jazan or Jazan
Khafr (Kharv or Khaur)
Kandaz ..
Mazldabad
Nanai
Natanz (Upper) 4,210
,, (Lower) 6,868
Rahan
Riseh .. ..
Siankhafr
Sirishk
Tameh .. ..
Ureh .. ..
Vashvashad
VIshteh ..
Varkuran
Krdns.
1,860
23
1,688
167
454
2,339
1,557
3,090
1,663
706
97
| 11078
2,041
1,828
19
6,580
1,560
2,999
2,565
872
64
Total taxes of Natanz Rud
NAUDEH—
A village of 50 houses, 156 miles from Tehran on
dan.— {Schindler.)
43,150
{Schindler.)
the road to Hama-
NAUKASH SARAB— Elev. 3,990'.
NAURUD—
A stream in Gilan flowing into the Caspian about 6 miles east of Rasht.
It is about 5 yards broad and only a few inches deep in the winter, and has
not the appearance of ever becoming a large stream.— {Holmes.)
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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- 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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