'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [307r] (618/706)
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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TAK—TAL
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TAK—
See Taq.
TAKlABAD (1)—
A village a few miles from Tehran, near the ruins of Ran—(Mew;.)
TAKlABAD (2)—
A small Armenian village, about 63 miles from Isfahan on the road to
Buruiird. It was formerly called Madar-i-Shah, and was only a ruined
caravansarai. There are now but four houses, 20 people ; no taxes are
paid; 13,000 lbs* of grain are sown yearly; there are eight oxen here.
(Prcece, 1893.)
TAKIABAD (3)— . .. .. .
A village in Yazd, about 6 miles from Sar-i-Yazd on the road thence
to Yazd.— (Gilh)
TAKlEH — , .
A halting-place, 49 miles north-east of Ramadan, on the road thenee to
Tehran. There is a stream near this village.—(CampM.)
takkeh daghi—
, A range of hills, north-east of Khanabad to the right of the Tehran-Hama-
dan road.— (Schindler.)
T4KKEH KAYASI— ’ , ,,
A range of hills at the southern end of the Dakhan district, west of the
Amjak Vagh.—{Schindler.)
TlL A^illage m Kurdistan near the sources of the Gav Rud m the grazing
grounds of the Kuliai tribe.
TALAR—(1) ,
i Mfl/audaran. It is crossed by the Pul-i-Safid, on the road from
A river , ari q gan, about 12 miles from Zirab the Talar loses its
Firuzhu n ; n t 0 a broad river with shinglv islands in its bed. It is
aiso U cro“eda X t 10 miles east of Barfarush on the road to Sari. Its bed here
is nearly 350 yards avross.
TALAR (2)— , , ,,
, . . rn ., f i from Tehran to Sari, somewhere about tne
A haltmg-place^jn the ^^t a nt from Sari about 60 miles, and 6
Xfat the PuSd (which lies between it and Sari) by which the Talar
river is crossed.— {Ouseley.)
TALAR (3)- , -o-, • a
A river in Mazandaran which falls into the Caspian west of Rud-i-Sar.
It has a bed 230 yards broad.—(fM»«s.)
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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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