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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [248v] (501/706)
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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484
QAR—QAS
QARAPAPAKH—
A tribe of Tartar origin (Slii’ahs), inhabiting a tract of land between lake
Urumieh and Baradust; noted for its fighting qualities.—(/Soane, 1910.)
QARATAUREH—
A district in Kurdistan joined to Hubatu {q.v.). Also a village in
Kurdistan on the right of ths Tabriz-Sinneh road, about 22 miles from
the latter.— {Morier.)
QAK.AVER—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali (q.v.) Also a village in Kur
distan on the right of the Tabuz-Sinush road, about 22 miles from the
latter.— {Morier.) !
QAKIJEH QAIYl—
A village about 20 miles from Mianeh, a couple of miles to the left of
the road thence to Tabriz.— {Schindler.)
QARPUZABAD—
(The village of water-melons) 571 miles from Tehran on the road to Kaz-
vin.— {Schindler),
QARYEH— .
f A village, 14 miles south-west of Isfahan on the road thence to Shushtar.
A paved causeway raised a few feet above the level of the often inundat
ed plain leads from here to Bagh-i-Vahsh, a distance of two miles.
QASIMABAD (1)—Elev. 3,500'. {
Village of 60 houses 13f miles from Tehran, Government property.—
{Schindler.)
QlSIMABAD (2)—
A small village, | mile north-east of Frat in the Damghan district.—
{Schindler.)
QASIMABAD (3)—
A village of 40 houses, 4 miles west of Khanabad to the right of the
road from Tehran to Hamadan.— {Schindler.)
QASIMABAD (4)—
A small village, 9| miles from Tehran to the right of the road to Hama
dan.— {Schindler. )
QASIMABAD (5)—
A village in the Tirun-Karvan district, 9 miles from Varpusht and about
3 miles to the left of the Isfahan-Burujird road.— {Schindler.)
QASIMABAD (6)— • f
A village 2 miles west of Pik, 51 miles from Tehran.—(/Sc/miffe)
QASIMABAD (7)—
A village in the Zarand district, a couple of miles south of Amrabad
{q. v. ).— {Schindler.)
QASIMABAD (8)—
An enclosure with cultivation, about 30 miles from Qum on the
road to Gulpalgan ; barley is grown on the banks of the Ab-i-Khunar, and
the ground is suitable for a large encampment.—(Re#, 188d.)
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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)
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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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- 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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