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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [254r] (512/706)
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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Out of some 200 Persian households in and around Khaniqin some 50
households are now Turkish subjects by compulsion their Consul being power
less to protect them.
An enormous revenue is collected by the Turks under the head of Quarantine
dues, passports, and dead bodies (imported for burial at Karbala) and levied
upon pilgrims. All pilgrims arriving from Persia pay krdns 6, quarantine
fee, and if their passports have not been vised Tcrans 20 is taken from them.
In this last service there is a very large amount of peculation and bribery.
All pilgrims arriving from Persia have, if they possess their own beasts,
to pay krdns 30 per donkey, and krdns 42 per mule, which is supposed to be
paid back when they return from the pi Igrimage. Such re-imbursement, how
ever, is rare.
Communications .—The tracks used by caravans are :—
1. The main road Kirmanshah to Baghdad passing through Sar-i-Pul,
Qasr-i-Shirin and Khaniqin.
2. Khaniqin to Dakka for Kirkuk.
3. Khaniqin to Haush Kuri for Sulaimanieh.
4. Khaniqin to Mandali.
Other routes, not much used are :—
5. Khaniqin to Sar-i-Pul via Imam Hasan.
6. Qizil Rubat to Paitaq.
7. Qasr-i-Shirin to Dakka.
8. Qasr-i-Shirin to Haush Kuri.
9. Qasr-i-Shirin to Sar Qalao.
10. Qasr-i-Shirin to Sar-i-Pul via Sumbulak.
11. Qasr-i-Shirin to Gilan for Pusht-i-Kuh.
12. Qasr-i-Shirin to Tangab for Mandali.
13. Qasr-i-Shirin to Shaikh Nasr-ud-Din’s district.
These are detailed in an appendix, except for the first mentioned.
Innumerable tracks exist all over the country which lead nowhere, and
follow most ardous routes. These are very misleading, and necessitate the
employment of a guide on any but Nos. 1 and 2 routes.
Carriages ply on No. 1 route. The Turks do not allow any Persian
carriages to pass the frontier except the post waggons, but their own vehicles
are free to make the journey to Kirmanshah or even to Tehran. The road is
usually closed to this traffic from January to early March. All other transport
is by mule and donkey caravan, with camels in summer in large numbers.
— (Soane, 1911.) (Goane 1911).
QASR-I-SANG—
A place in the Kazvin district, 44 miles from Karaj, on the road thence to
Kazvin by Kurdan. On the plain near it are some tumuli resembling those
found in the neighbourhood of Troy.— (Morier.)
QATARTAPPEH-
A hill at the southern end of the Jajrud valley, east of Tehran.—
(Schindler.)
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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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