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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [243v] (491/706)
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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474
PAZ- PIL
PAZIVAR—
Buluk and village ; belongs to Mashad-i-Sarl in Mazandaran. The village
is situated near the Babul river and hidden in forest. It has a mosque
said to date from the fourteenth century (1910).
PAZEKI or PAZUKI—
Name of a once powerful tribe residing near Erzerum, the tribe was
bioken up in the latter part of the sixteenth century, when some families
migrated to Persia. About a thousand families reside in Yaramin and
Khar, south-east and east of Tehran. Some speak Kurdq some Turkish.
— (Schindler.)
PEKHAN—v
A village 52 miles from Kumisheh towards Isfahan. It is a large vil
lage, but its water is rather brackish.—(G%&ons.)
PEMAGUDRUN— Elev. 10,000 feet.
A peak in
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
, outside the borders of Kurdistan, and a few
miles north of Sulaimanleh.— (Gerard.)
PERMISI
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, about four miles from Kh 5 I on
the Kizil Dizeh road ; the suburbs of Khoi (Mahallas) extend to here.—
(Picot, 1894.)
PEZVAR—
A shepherd camp in the southern border of Mazandaran. It lies north
east of the Khing plateau, and about 12 miles west of Fulad Mahalleh.—
(Lovett.)
PIACHAN—
A pass from Baneh to Bistan, across the Zagros mountains from Kurdis
tan to Bebeh.— (Rich.)
PlK—
_A large village 5 miles on the left of the road between Tehran and Rama
dan 29 miles from the former. Clean and flourishing village, good accom-
modition ; water brackish.—
PILAKHO—(TILAKU ?)
One of the twelve tribes of Kurds living near Aushar.— (Gerard)
PILAVAR—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, 11 miles north-east of Khdl on
the road to Avoglu and Julfa by the left bank of the Qutur Chai; the valley
narrows here, a salt ridge closing in on the south.— (Picot 1894 )
PILEH or PILEK—
A Tillage of the district of Marivan. It is f farsakh from Marivan on the
road thence to Sarah
Famous m Kurdish annals as being the place where Mu’tamad-ud-
Oauleh hanged Hasan Sultan AuramI in sight of his thousand armed tufanq-
chis. — (Rabmo, 1911.) 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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