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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [264r] (532/706)
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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RAZLANSAB— .
A village in Kirmanaliah aituated in the Bllawar valley about 30 miles
north of Kirmanshah city. It contains about 15 houses inhabited by
Bl la war I Kurds. It has a few trees, some cultivation, and is watered by
a stream. Supplies : 130 sheep and goats.— (Vaughan.)
REES—
A village in Kirmanshah 36 miles north-west of Kirmanshah city. It
contains about 40 houses inhabited by Jaf Kurds and is the property of
the Yakil-ud-Dauleh, Kirmanshah. It has no trees. Water, crops and
cultivation. Supplies: 500 sheep and goats; good grazing—(Fau^an.)
RESHM—
A halting-place 8 miles north of Husaini, on the road to Damghan.
Water is procurable.— {MacGregor.)
RIGrHID—
A plain in Kirmanshah, one of the winter places of residence of por
tions of the Shaharik, Varmazlar, and Khaman clans of the great Kulhur
tribe of Kirmanshah.— {Plowden.)
RlG-I-RIGr SHUTARAN—
A range of hills, 50 miles north-east of Yazd, which have to be crossed
on the route from Yazd to Tun. {MS. Route ) Also 193 miles from Kir-
man on the road to Tabas.— {Kinneir.)
RIJAB (1)—
A village in Kirmanshah, 20 miles east of Zuhab. It is situated a little
north above the bank of the Hulavan river, where the glen widens into
something like a bay. It contains 150 houses and the inhabitants are
all Sunnis. The Hulavan river rises in the defile of Rijab, which is one
of the most beautiful spots in the East; it is in general very narrow, scarce
ly 60 yards in width,—closed in on either side by a line of tremendous
precipices, and filled from one end to the other with gardens and orchards,
through which the stream tears its foaming way with the most impetuous
force. Rijab is from its situation a place of great strength. The peaches
and figs, which the gardens of Rijab produce are celebrated throughout
Persia.— {Rawlinson.)
There are some soldiers here. Shooting in the surrounding hills is plentiful.
RIJAB (2)—
A rapid torrent in the Kirmanshah district, crossed 11 miles from Mian
Tak, on the road to Sar-i-Pul-i-Zuhab.— {Taylor.)
RIKAN’ RAKAN—
A village 27| miles from Kazvin to the left of the post-road to Tabriz.—
{Schindler.)
RIND—
A village in north-western Azarbaljan, situated on the right bank of the
Kara Su, about 3 miles north-west of Kara Tappeh—(Picoi, 1894.)
RISAM-I-RUDBAR— Elev. 7,150'.
A valley between Kurand and Falad Mahalla, about 15 miles south
west of the latter. It is a fertile pasture, 5 or 6 miles in length, a little
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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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