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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [306v] (617/706)
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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600
TAJ-TAK
TAJABADI (?)—
A large village 1\ miles from As’adabad; between it and Hamadan, on
the road thither from Karan.— (Bellew.)
TAJIK—
A ruined village in Pishkhur plain, to the left of the Tehran-Hamadan
road, 134 miles from Tehran ; is the Tazarah of the Arab geographers. -
{Schindler.)
TAJIK KUH (The Merchant’s Mountain)—
A hill between Daulatabad and Nihavand about 15 miles from the
former place.— {Schindler.)
TAKALLU—
One of theKizilbash tribes {q.v.). They were broken up by 1531 A.D. and
merged in other tribes ; a few families kept the name but as a tribe they
may be said to have ceased to exist.— {Schindler.)
T AKHT-I-J AMSH ID—
A remarkable hill 10 miles from Yazd; its sides are abrupt and summit
level.— {Abbott.)
TAKHT-I-KAI-KAUS—
A hill at the village at Pitkinah, near Tehran on the Kazvin road. It
is conical, and on its top are the vestiges of some buildings.— {Morier.)
TAKHT-I-KUSTAM—
A hill near Julfa, Isfahan, close to which the road thence to Shushtar
passes.— {Baring.)
TAKHT-I-SULAIMAN— Kiev. 6,987'.
Kuins in the province of Azarbaljan, near the head-waters of the Jaghatu.
These ruins, which are of considerable interest to the antiquary, will be found
fully described in Major Kawlinson’s paper in Volume X of the Journal
of the Geographical Society.— {Rawlinson.)
TAKHT-I-ZANGI—
Stands at the foot of one of the east spurs of the Zarneh mountain, Per
sian Kurdistan. A few trees : water plentiful from Zarneh, grass is abun
dant on both valley and mountain and the latter also is well wooded : the
summer pastures of the flocks of the village are on Zarneh : the village
consists of 30 houses.—(Burton.)
TAKHT-I-ZUMURRCD—
See under Ah.
TAKHT-MAHAL— Kiev. 5,850'.
A village, 16| miles from Sultanabad, on the road to Burujird.— {Schind
ler.)
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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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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