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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [242r] (488/706)
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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PAL—PAP
be the famed Caspian Gates about the situation of which travellers and
antiquarians are still uncertain^.— Loett.)
PALANG RUD—
A river in Mazandaran wh ch flows into the Caspian between ’Abbasabad
and Deh Kirip.— {Holmes).
PALAR— c.f. Kuh-i-Palar.
A mountain in -Viazanlaran, ove looking Firuzabad, and situated between
the Chalus and Pul rivers, about 10 miles south of Asolat.— {Lovett.)
PALASHT—
A village 18 miles from Tehran, on the Meshed road.— {Holmes.)
PANIJARD—
A village 65 miles from Tehran, on the road thence to Hamadan.—
PANIRAN—
Stands at the foot of a bare mountain above the left bank of the stream,
draining the valley of Kaila Gulan (Persian Kurdistan). The valley here
narrows to | mile in width, the stream flows between deeply cut banks with
a good volume of water. There is some cultivation below the village and
a few willows and poplars. The mountains are quite bare of trees, but hold
grass on the higher slopes. Four miles below is the junction with the Ga-
varra river. The village has 50 houses and owns many flocks and herds.—
{Burton.)
PANJAH ’ALT (Mountain of)—
A jagged and lofty mountain visible at a great distance to the east from
the Mian Sar pass above the Gavarra river, Persian Kurdistan. Its top
most peaks in profile present a curious likeness to the tips of the fingers of
a human hand : hence the name.— {Burton.)
PANJAB—RUSTAG.
A village of Mazandaran, 85 miles north-east of Tehran, on the road to
Amul, 35 miles distant. There is a bridge across the Harhaz here.
{Napier .'
PANJ SUVAR HILL—
A jagged ridge running along the south-west side of the Simani and Barza
valleys between the Zimkan river at Gavarra and the Panj Suvar pass. It
is grassy and thickly wooded with oak forest and rises to the height of about
1,000 feet above Simani.— {Burton.)
PANJ SUVAR PASS—Elev. 5,950 feet.
Is crossed by the road from Gavarra to Harunabad, I0| miles from the
former place, and lies at the south-east end of the hill of the same name.
The hills to either hand are about | mile apart and slope gently down. The
pass is thickly wooded with fine oaks. The approaches from either side
are gentle and the road over it is broad and level. At the summit is the
walled Zidrat of Panj Suvar. There is no water for some distance on either
ascent.— {Burton.)
PAPULAK—
A small village in the Upper Silakhur district. 6 miles from Buriijird
— {Schindler.) J
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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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