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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [241r] (486/706)
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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PABABAHNEH—
A village on the road to Yazd from Isfahan via Kuhpa. It has a small
fort and a spring of water.— (K. Abbott.)
PAOHINAB,—^Elev. 1,515 feet.
^ A posting stage on the cart-road from Kazvln to Basht, 32 miles from
Kazvin. There is a path over the hills via Kharzan and Mazra h, joining the
cart-road at- Aghababa ; miles from Pachinar the Shahrud receives the
luz Basin or the Mulla ’Ali, a shallow mountain stream.— (Eastwiclc ;
Schindler.)
PAJDEH—
A village of over 100 houses with a fort, 76 miles from Tehran on the
Meshed road. It forms part of the Khar district. The fort is much ruined ;
several deep and broad watercourses cut off the approaches to it from the
north. To get to the fort one has to cross the watercourses 2 miles west,
or 1 | miles east of the place.— (Schindler.)
PAHBAVA—
A village in Azarbaijan, 2 miles south-west of Maragheh.— (Schindler.)
PAIDASHT—Lat. 35° 27' 53". Long. 51° 38' 15". Eiev. 3,400 feet.—
(Lemm.) Cf. Palasht, p. 472.
A village a few miles to the south-west of the Tehran-Meshed road.—
(St. John's map.)
PA-GUNDEH (The swollen foot)—Elev. 3,800 feet.
A hamlet of 30 people with a tank of brackish water 13| miles from Agda
on the road to Yazd. Camping-ground unlimited. Supplies almost nil.—
(Sykes.)
PAIHAN—
A large village, with bridge over the Ab-i-Kulan, about 11 miles from
Daulatabad on the road to Burujird.— (Schindler.)
PAIBAS—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 9 miles from Khoi on the road to
Kizil Dizeh. Just beyond the village are extensive gardens of fruit trees,
willows and poplars.— (Picot, 1894.)
PAIBAVAN—
A village 4 miles north by west of Kirmanshah, on the left bank of the
Gamasiab in the Duriih Faraman district.— (Webb.)
PAIBAVAND—
A small tribe numbering 400 houses and divided into four branches.
Dalujeh with 6 katkhudas, Zoyar with 2 katkhudds, Kolkol with 4 katkhudds
and Kuliai with 2 katkhudds. They have no fixed garmsirs, some of them
go to Pusht-i-Kuh, others to the Sinjabl district. Of these 400 families
about 70 or 80 do not go to gishlaqs. The others are settled in Kinisht and
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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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