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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [257r] (518/706)
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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QtfRATtj or ABACI KARIM KHAN—
This is a village of 400 inhabitants all Bajlan, in which is the house of
Majid Khan, Chief of the Jumur Bajlan. There is no caravansarai, as the
place is not on any route. A small oil refining industry exists here.
’Aziz Khan Bajlkn is posted at this village with 100 horsemen as a pro
tection against the inroads of the Jafs (1907).
’Aziz Khan is said to derive 700 tumdns per annum for his villages.
There is a direct road from here to Qasr-i-Shirin, but no villages are met.
The river which passes near Quratu is also called Quratu and has its
source at 1^ farsakhs from Zuhab at a spot called Sarab-Saiyid-Sadiq. The
banks of this river for some miles are covered with red oleander.
“ Quretu is also known as Abadi ’Aziz Khan, 300 inhabitants : cultivation
wheat and barley ; ddlml ”.— {Post-Master, Sar-i-pul.)
In the Revenue Department list of villages, etc., of the District of Zuhab,
the sub-district of Quratu is mentioned as being composed of 14 villages.
— (Rabino, 1907 ; Soane, 1912.)
QURIKUL—
A small salt lake 27 miles from Tabriz, 6£ miles from Haji {Schind
ler.)
QURUGH (1)—
A “ neat ” village in Persian Kurdistan, containing about 40 well built
houses. Ample supplies (for a small party) here. Qurugh is about 21
miles from Sinneh on the road thence to Kirmanshah.
QURUGH (2)—
A village in lower Silakhur about 14 miles south-west of Burujird.—
{Schindler.)
QURUJAN—
A village in Azarbaijan on the road from Bunab to Miandiiab, 3 mile*
north of Malik Kandi.— {Schindler.)
QURUQCHl—
A ruined village in Jushqan, 13 miles south-east of Robat Turk, inhabit
ed by 3 or 4 families, who look after the Maimeh flocks in summer. They
have some magnificent sheep dogs. Water-supply from a small stream
rising in the hills to the west.— {Schindler.)
QURVEH—
A village of about 200 houses, it is the chief place of the Isfandabad buluh
of Kurdistan on the high road between Hamadan and Sinandij, 38 miles
from the former and 46 from the latter. It has post and telegraph offices
since 1878 (1910.)
QUSHEH (1), KHUSHIA, KHUSHA, GUCHAH or GHUSHIH— Elev. 4,296.
(Perhaps corruption of Gusheh, corner.) A station on the Tehran-
Meshed high road, 176 miles from Tehran and 22| miles from Damghan,
with a caravansarai (built of brick in the 17th century, with 10 rooms, 3
open halls and good stables), a reservoir of water, a chaparkhaneh and a
small walled-in village, with two or three families. Very little cultivation.
Qusheh belongs to the Damghan district.— {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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