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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [237v] (479/706)
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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NIL-Nm
462
NILPARlZ—
A village in the borders of Kurdistan, two stages west of Gulambar,
on the road to Sulaimanieh.— (Rich.)
NlLUFAR (1)—ZIr-Darband, Kirmanshah.
A small district of the Zir Darband buli/Jc. It is composed of 37
villages, a list of w'hich is given in Rabino’s “ Gazetteer of Kirman-
shah/’ 1907. There is a small village of the same name in the district, near
a range of hills from which it is separated by a small lake called Sarab
Nilufar. A stream, also called Nilufar, rises in the lake and runs down a
fertile valley.— (Rabino, 1907.)
NILUFAR (2)—
A river running down a fertile valley between Sahneh and Bisitun on
the road from Hamadan to Kirmanshah.— (Bellew.)
NIMADKUH— Elev. 6,390'.
A large and populous village 10 miles from Sultanabad on the road to
Burujird, passing through the mountains ; it is situated on a stream, and
well cultivated vineyards or gardens surrounded by high mud walls are
numerous. The inhabitants speak Turkish.— (Schindler.)
NIMAGIRD or NIMAJIRD— Elev. 7,560'.
One of the nine Armenian villages of the Faridan district, 83 miles
from Isfahan, on the Isfahan-Burujird io&d.-~(Schitidler.)
NlMYAR or N AMI VAR—
A village of 60 houses in the Mahallat province on the right bank of the
Anarbar river, 7 miles east of the town of Mahallat. It has a mosque,
a bath and some saints’ graves. Not far from the village is the dyke
called Band-i-Jamshid, near to which are the ruins of an old bridge. On
the high road to Isfahan, a little above the village is a bridge with four
arches. Two miles east of Nimvar in a secluded dell to the right of
the high road to Isfahan is the small village of Atishkuh.— (Schindler.)
NlR (1)—
A small village in the Ardabil district of Azarbaljan, 25 miles south
west of Ardabil on the road to Tabriz. Water and a few supplies are obtain
able.— (Thielmam.)
NlR ( 2 )—
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh sub-division of Yazd, south-west of that
town.— (MacGregor.)
NlRBlN—
A village in Azarbaijan, on the eastern shore of the Urumleh lake and
5 miles south of Ajabshir—(ScAmd/er.)
NIRIJ—Guran. Sometimes Nirzhi (see Qasr-i-Shirin).
A rich valley in Western Kirmanshah between Gahwareh and BibyaH
on the road to Zuhab. •
A branch of the Gurans (q.v.) derive their name from the name of this
plain. They furnish 1 company to the Guran regiment.— (Rabino.)
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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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