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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎254v] (513/706)

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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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496
QAY—QIS
QAYlMABAD—
A village, 53| miles from Isfahan, on the road to Shiraz, via Abadeh.—
(Taylor.)
QAY A KUSHAQ—
A village in Azarbaijan, 13 miles north-west of Turkomanchal.—(£cAtnd-
ler.)
QAZI—
A range of hills in the Kirmanshah district, crossed between Chiagu-
nush and Gavarra on the Kirmanshah-Karind road.—(/ones.)
QAZIABAD—
A village abaut 7 miles beyond Shamiran, on the road from Tehran to
Hamadan.— (Taylor.)
QAZIAN (1)—
Same as Ghazlan for which see Enzali.
QAZlAN (2)—
A village 15 miles from Rasht on the road thence to 'Kazvin—(Schindler.)
QAZJAHAN—
A village in Azarbaijan, 2 miles east of Gugan.— (Schindler.)
QIPCHAQ—
A village on the Tehran-Hamadan road, 163 miles from Tehran and 244
miles from Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
QIRQLI—
A village in Azarbaijan connected by a path with the road from Tikan-
tappeh to Khushmakam, on the route from Tabriz to Kirmanshah.—(IT. 0.
Report on Persia, Part 11, Route 242.)
QIRQLU—
A branch of the Afshar tribe to which Nadir Shah belonged.— (Chesnev 1
QIRYEH—Elev. 4,357'. V
A fair-sized village in Khamseh, about half-way between Kazvin and
Sultanieh, it is a pretty place, and there is good shooting in the neighbour
hood ; there is a post-house here.— (Schindler.)
QISHLAQ (1)—
(Qishlaq means "winter quarters”, and is the same as “ Sardsir”, hence
the name is common)—Elev. 2,740'.
There are four villages of this name in the Khar district. The prin
cipal one is Qishldq Khar, a village of 80 houses, with a chaparkaneh and a
small caravansarai built by Agha Nasrullah, and let at 84 tumdns per annum.
The village is abundantly supplied with water and has extensive fields and
gardens. Tehran is supplied with grain from this district.—(Manner.)
QISHLAQ (2)—
A village in Kurdistan J farsalch east of Sinandij. It is passed on its
eastern side by a stream, which rises near the village of Sang-i-Safid, 5
farsakhs north of Sinandij and flows into the Gav-Rud 5 farsakhs south of

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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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