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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [258r] (520/706)
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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RAHA—HAHN
603
BAHAMA—
A name for tlie Diala river (q.v.),
RAHDAR KHANEH—
A village in Azarbaijan, 5 miles from Tasuj, on the left of the road from
that place to Khoi. There is a custom house here.—(Moner.)
RAHGIRD—
A village, 34| miles from Qum, on the road to Sultanabad (42| miles).
There is a caravansarai with cistern here, also a stream, and a Peisian
Government telegraph office. Population 1,000 ; 200 houses; 15 pairs
plough-oxen ; 25,000 lbs. of grain sown yearly.—(Preece.)
RAHlMABAD—
A small village, 48| miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan. There
is no drinkable water from here to Robat Karim, 25 miles. The Rahlm-
abad water is brackish. (Schindler.)
RAHMATABAD (1)—
A village of 70 houses. miles from Yazd on the road to Kirman.—
(Schindler.)
RAHMATABAD (2)—
A small hilly district situated on the right side of the Safid Rud, opposite
Rfidbar. and Rustamabad. Its few villages lie on the precipitous slopes
of the hills in the midst of dense forest. (Schindler).
RAHMATABAD (3)— , ,
A little town occupying one of the higher undulations m the Sahneh
Alvand valley. Its mud-built houses rise above each other, and there
are some two-storeyed brick buildings on a rocky bluff at the eastern end.
A few shops here. The population is about 2,000. Water from a landt
is collected in a reservoir about half a mile from the town.—(Jones.)
RAHMATABAD (4)—
A village 8 miles south ol Damghan, to the right of the road to Jfrat.
(Schindler.)
RAHMATABAD (5)— i ^ ^ ^
A village of 22 houses inhabited by Shahsavans. It is to the left of the
Tehra-Qum road at about 2 miles south-west of the Manzarieh bridge.
(Rabino, 1899.)
RAHNA—Elev. 8,000'.
A large village in Mazandaran, situated on a spur of the Damavand
mountain, 15 miles from Biazan, on the road from San to Tehran. It
contains some 200 houses, and lies 1,000 to 1,200' above the Harhaz river
The new road to Tehran passes through it reaching it by a succession of
zigzags, rising 1,000' in a distance of about 1 mile—(Napier.)
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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'
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- 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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