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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [235v] (475/706)
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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NAU—NAZ
NAttSUD—
4 halting-place in western Kirmanshah, four stages from that town on
the upper road to Sulaimanieh.— (Rich.)
NlVAND— • •
A village 331 miles from Kazvin, on the road thence to Hamadan(ScTb’rwZ-
ler.)
NAVASAR—
A halting-place in Azarbaijan, 20 miles north of Ahar, on the road to
Aslanduz.— (Morier .)
NAYSALEH—
A village in Azarbaijan, 47 miles from Mianeh on the road to Tabriz.—
(Schindler.)
NAVADEH—
A village in Talish, 12 miles north-east of Ardabil, on the road to Astara.—
(Holmes.)
NAVAI—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 5 miles north-east of Khoi on
the road to Julfa, which here crosses to the right bank of the Qutur Chai
and is separated from the river by a low clay ridge, extending to within 4
miles of Avuglu.— (Picot, 1894.)
NAVANDA—
A stream in the western borders of Kurdistan, met on the road between
Raivan and Raiat, on the j:oad from Ruwandiz to Sauj Bulagh.—
(Gerard.)
NAVIREH—
A village in Ardalan, 7 miles north-west of Sinn eh. There are two brooks
and some gardens close below it.— (Gerard.)
NAZARABAD— Elev. 4,690'.
Two villages close together on the Kirmanshah plain and about 9 miles
north-west of the city. They contain about 30 houses in all, inhabited
by Kurds. Water plentiful from a pond and a good stream. No trees,
some crops and cultivation, excellent grazing. They are on one of the
Kara-Su valley roads to Ruvansar. Supplies *. 200 cows, 150 kharwdrs of
wheat, 400 sheep and goats; no firewood. There is a water-mill by the
pond. ’ Roads from here to Kirmanshah, distant 9 miles, and Harunabad
distant 36 miles,.— (Burton.)
NAZIAH— Elev. 5,775'.
A small village of mud huts, 91 miles from Qum, 20 from Mahallat
on the road to Gulpaigan ; supplies for a small party obtained with difficulty.
— (Bell, 1884.)
NAZIK—c/., Nasik, p. 458.
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, about 11 miles down the ’Abbas-
abad-Kh 6 I road and some 8 miles to the west.— (Picot, 1894.)
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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'
- Pages
- 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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