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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [291r] (586/706)
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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SHlRlN-lB—
A place on the Baghdad-Kirmanshah road east of Qasr-i-Shirin in Kurdis*
tan, where a spring of good water issues from a cleft in the rock.—
(Plowden.)
SHlRlNABAD (1)—
A village of 25 houses, 5 miles north-west of Dauh.tabad Malayar on
a little stream which rises above Gulushijird.— {Schindler.)
SHlRlNABAD (2)—
The second halting place on the road from Tehran to Hamadan via Saveli,
— (Morier.)
PHlRINLU—
A village in the Kazvln district on the Yuzbashi river and in the Hasan
KhanI valley. Is one of the winter quarters of the ChiginI tribe and deserted
in summer.— {Schindler.)
SHlR-RUD—
A considerable river in Mazandaran, flowing into the Caspian between
Rud-i-Sar and ’Abbasabad. It is very dangerous on account of its quick
sands.—(Eraser ; Holmes.)
SHIRK AN—
A village in the Avroman Lah"n bul <k of Kurdistan famous for its pome
granates (1902).
SHlRNABAD—
A village of 25 houses, 5 miles north-west of Daul. tabad Malaya* on
a little stream which rises above Gul shijird.— {Schindler.)
SHlRV'N (1)—
Se«' Ab-i-Shirvan.
SHIR VAN (2)—
A stream cro sed in the Luabush valley between Takht-i-Sulaiman and
Sinneh ; on the Sinneh-Kirmanshah road.— {Plowden.)
SHlRVANAND—Kalhur.
At the beginning of the property of Chaharzabar there is a coffee-house
on the main rood. Behind this coffee-house near Chashmeh Shah Pasand
is the village known as Shirvanand belonging to
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
-ud-Dauleh. It
numbers 10 families. A stream runs down from Chashmeh Shah
Pasand.
Fom Chashmah Shah Pasand to the centre of the Chaharzabar property
there are two roads. _ In the middle of he Chaharzabar pass there are 7 or
8 mills. Katkhuda Agha Beg has a coffee-house near the stream, and here
are stationed tie Kalhur road r ards. Cul ivation : dbi and opium. In
dustry : carpets and sale of fuel. Shirvanand is part of the Kalhur
distr'ct.— 1907.)
C300GSB '
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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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- 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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