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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [312r] (628/706)
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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Persia And about hr If way up, there is an arched recess called the Taq-i-
Khnsrau, or Taq-i-Gireh, built of marble slabs of large size, and the orna
ments of which, though very much defaced, are quite m the style attribute o
this kng For details of this arch seeKabino’s “Gazetteer of Kirmanshah.
On the occasion of Nasr-ud-Dln Shah’s journey to Karbala the
Persian engineers under Gastaiger Khan, who had been told to repair the
road b ndoned the old Sassanian road and adopted a new route much
inferior to the old one.—(Fraser, 1834; Rawlinson; Rabino, 1907.)
TAQ-I-MALIK—
A hamlet with some gardens close to Dozoir of which it forms a part—
(Schindler.)
TAR— L
The name of two lakes at an elevation of 9,400' in the hills east of Tehran.
— (Stal.)
TARAMDARAH (’Iraq-i-’Ajami)—
See Khurramdarreh,
TARAZU BARA—
In the Kandula valley, Kirmanshah, on a bare rounded ridge 1 mile
south of Kundula. Below lie vineyards and gardens running down to
the village of Hu jjatabad. Water from springs. _
Seventy houses of Kurds : the road via Bilawar to the Kirmanshah-Smneh
road passes below.— (Burton.)
TARAZULA,—
A village in Kurdistan, about 34 miles south of Sinneh, situated on the
left bank of the Gavarud in a fertile valley; it contains ab ut 50 houses,
some gardens, cultivation and a considerable amount of trees. Cultiva
tion, chiefly wheat, reaped in August; good grazing; a little firewood.
Supplies : 100 cows, 50 donkeys and 700 sheep and goats.—(Faw^Aaw.)
TARGAN—
A fortified village, in Azarbaijan, 11 miles south of Jairan, standing
on a rocky scarp over the water of Lake Urumieh on its western shore.
(Gerard.)
TARIKEH RGB—
A stream in Gilan flowing into the Safidrud and crossed by the road
from Rasht to Kazvin about 25 miles from the former ^[^.—(Schind
ler.)
TARKHISTANEH—
A village 58 miles from Burujlrd to the left of the road thence to
Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
TARKRUD (District)—
The most southern district of Natanz, joining the Isfahan province. Its
principal place is Tarkh, a village of about 300 houses, situated in an open
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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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