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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎242v] (489/706)

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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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PARD—PARN
PARDlfLl—
A village in Azarbaijan, 9 miles north-west of Tabriz, on tbe Sliahrl Cbai,
which is there crossed by a three-arched bridge.— {Schindler.)
PARAS—
A halting-place in Azarbaijan, two stages north-north-east of Zinjan, on
• the road to Ardabll.— {Morier.)
PARASP, PARASPI, or PARUS—Lat. 36° 15' 0" ; Long. 52° 10' 0".
A halting-stage in the Elburz mountains in Mazandaran. 19 miles from
Amul, on the road to Tehran. It is a mere roadside station, having for
public accommodation a number of caves cut in the face of a gravel bank
near the river Harhaz. A private house belonging to the Governor of La-
rljan, with a bath, is available for travellers. No supplies are procurable
except barley.— {Holmes ; Napier.)
.PAR AST A—
A small village in the Dehkharqan district, Azarbaijan, 3 miles east of
Gugan.
PARI—Lat. 34° 7' 45" , Long. 48° 57' 59".
A village 18 miles south-east of Daulatabad, on the road to Isfahan.
Water from a stream, 50 pairs of plough-oxen, 37,000 lbs. of grain sown
yearly, 1,000 sheep, 200 houses, population 950, settlers from Ears.—
{Preece.)
PARIAN—(PARIVEH ?)
Two villages standing on the north-west edge of the Parian plain in a
well-cultivated valley sloping south-west back of the road from Kirmanshah
to liar sin. To the south-east, the plain stretches to the Harsin valley below
the town and is crossed by the road to Harsin from 3 to 4 miles from that
place. The villages contain in the aggregate 60 houses and are surrounded
by well cultivated land and some groves of trees. Water and grass are
abundant: large flocks and herds are pastured on the plain and mountain
slopes. There is no fuel adjacent. The elevation of the plain of Parian is
5,200' ; that of the villages being some 200 feet highei.—{Burton.)
PARIT—
A halting-place in Luristan on the road from Isfahan to Kirmanshah
with a post-house, about 208 miles from the former and 24 from Daulat
abad.— {Jones; Mackenzie.)
PARMEH RUD—
A small river which rises in the Kuh-i-Bulur and waters the .Astaneh
village, a few miles to the north. Its sands are auriferous.— {Schindler.)
PARNAK—
A village in Azarbaijan, situated on the Sar-i-Su river near the Aras and
on the road between Nakhchivan and Bayazid, 22 miles from the former.—■
{MacGregor's Routes.)

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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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