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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [308v] (621/706)
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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TAL—TAN
TALVARUD—
See Ab-i-Talvar
TAMANDAR—
A range of mountains, crossed by the road between Isfahan and Buriijird
some 20 miles from the former. — (Schindler.)
TAMARAS-RUD—
See Tahmuras Rud.
TAMARG—
Stands on the upper road to Khurramabad, 4 miles to the east of Har-
sln. The village is situated on the summit and side of a small hill, below
which lies the cultivated Harsin valley of which it is the uppermost village :
the ground to the north is broken and intersected by streams lined with willows,
of which also are some plantations near the village. There is no other fuel
available. Water from some large kdrlz streams and springs. The ground
round is mainly under cultivation.
There is a large flock of sheep and goats. The people number 50 houses,
of which 40 are Lurs, and the remainder Harsin Kurds. The Gashur pass
and Luristan frontier lie 3 miles to the east.— {Burton.)
TAMASH TANG—
A steep descent in Mazandaran, leading out of the Tang-i-Shamshir Bur*
towards Russia*.— {Napier.)
[ * See Volume I,
TAMEA—
A village in the Kirmanshah district situated in the Bllawar valley, about
32 miles north of Kirmxnshah city. It contains about 30 houses inhabited
by Bllawarl Kurds, Shi’ahs. Cultivation, crops and some plantation of trees
close by. Supplies : 400 sheep and goats.
Good grazing in summer. Water from a stream.—(Fem^cm.)
AMI JAN—
A village in Gilan, 22 miles east of Lahijan. It is a large place and has a
bazaar.—(.Fraser.)
TAMIRl—
A small village in the Dekharqan district, Azarbatjan, 1 mile north of
Gugan — {Schindler .)
TAMUGEH—
A village in Azarbaljan about 9 miles south-west of Saqqiz. Two streams
join here.— {Gerard.)
TANGAB—
A village in the Qasr-i-Shirin district of Persia, where there are some
oil springs. It is in the Shah Kuh mountains on the road between Qasr-i-
Sh'rln and Mandali. There is a customs post here with a guard of six Persian
horsemen.— {Soane, 1911.)
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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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