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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [244v] (493/706)
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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476
PIR—PIS
a few horses and donkeys. Good camping ground for troops in the vicinity ;
water plentiful, road runs from here to Sinneh and Kirmanshah, distant
36 and 78 miles, respectively.— {Gerard; Vaughan.)
PIRNAK—
A village of north-western Azarbaijan, lying about 2 miles to the west
of the road from Shah Takht to Khoi and some 7 miles from ’Arab.—
(Picot, 1894.)
PIR-SAKAL—
A village on the head waters of the Abhar Rud, in the Khudabandehlii
sub-district of Khamseh, 63f miles from Kazvin, on the post-road thence
to Tabriz.— {Schindler.)
PIR-SARAB—
A village of the Khudabandehlu Khans, fths of which belongs to
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
ud-Dauleh.
It is divided into three settlements or hamlets : Pir-Sarab, ’Azizabad and
Husainabad. Cultivation: grain, opium, garden crops. The rent of
s tbs amounts to 400 turnons cash and 130 kharvars grain per annum.
The inhabitants are Khudabandehlus.— {Rabino.)
PlRUZ—
Name of a range of mountains to the north of Kazvin, probably a spur
of the Elburz. See Kuh-i-Piruz.— {Schindler.)
PIRUZAH— *
See Biruzeh.
PlRUZKUH—
See Kuh-i-Piruz.
PISHAMBADl—
A range of hills situated about 40 miles south-west of Isfahan. On it
are the -villages of Layabid, Kaleh-i-Agha, and Qulishah.— {Schindler.)
PlSHDlR or PISHDAR—
A small tribe of Kurds (Sunni) living in passes and fastness of the moun
tains above Sardasht in Turkish territory. They are said to be Nukri
{q. v.) by origin.
They descend into the plains of Marga and Baneh Su in Persian territory,
and are noted for their fierce disposition, which, with the remoteness of their *•
country, has kept them free from all retribution by their stronger neigh
bours. They are armed with Martini rifles.— {Soane, 1910.)
PISHIRT—
A small village in Eastern Mazandaran. It has a large and shady grove
of walnut trees and a spring. It lies 20 miles east of Fulad-Mahalleh on
the road to Chardeh.— {Lovett.)
PISHIUN—
A halting-place, three stages from Kirmanshah, on the road to Sulai-
manleh.— {Rich. )
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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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