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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [245r] (494/706)
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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PIS—PUL
477
PlSHKUR—
A district about 134 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan. It is
bounded in the north by the Kuh-i-Quliabad, in the south by the Kara
Chal. Its principal village is Karadai.
Infested with mosquitoes in autumn.— (Schindler.)
PISHYA—
The capital of Lahijan ; distant about 3 miles north-west of Kali-Sipan;
it is the residence of the Mamish chief.— (Todd.)
PITKINAH—
A village close to Tehran, on the Hamadan road. It is surrounded by
a mud wall, and is situated at the foot of a mound called Takht-i-Kai-
kaus.— (Morier.)
PUDAH—
A village in Yazd, 114 miles north-west of Yazd. It is described as
a large village, with a good sized fort .—(Euan ; Smith.)
PUDAZ—
A small village of ’Iraq near the Bilabad Pass, some 70 miles east of
Isfahan.— (Floyer.)
PUL—
A river of Mazandaran rising in the Niji-i-Kuh hills, which flows in
a north-westerly direction into the Chalus. The Pul has only one tribu
tary stream, which it receives from the east.— (Stahl.)
PULAD-BAGrHEH—
A village, 128 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
PUL-I-DARYlSH BEG (or BRIDGE OF FAQlR SUL AIM AN)— Elev.
4,840 feet.
This bridge is thrown across the Gaveh Rud (river) 8 miles above its junc
tion with the Qishlaq stream. The bridge is strongly and well built of brick
and rises to a point in the centre of its length : the roadway is paved with large
stones ; it is buttressed on rock and stone and has three pointed arches.
The way is 24 feet in length ; between outer buttresses 25 yards ; total
length 40 yards. The approaches on either bank are being gradually
eroded by water.
The bridge is commanded from above from a flat spur, distant 300 yards
on the left bank, and above it on the right bank rises a rocky cliff 100 feet
high terminating the spur down which the road runs. One hundred and
fifty yards below are the ruined buttresses of a former bridge beyond which
the river flows through a rocky gorge. The river bed is rough and bould-
ery with a strong stream, fordable 200 yards above. The bridge and adja
cent cliffs are haunted by large numbers of blue pigeons. On a plateau
| mile above the bridge is a nomad camp of 50 huts .—(Burton ; Preece.)
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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