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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎313v] (631/706)

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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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TAVEH—
A village of 100 houses in the Darjizin district, north-east of Hamadan.—
{Schindler.)
TAVlLEH—
The fifth halting-place on the road from Kirmanshah to Sulaimanleh by
Juanrud and Avroman. It is about 90 miles north-west of Kirmanshah —
(/. D. W. 0.)
TAZEHKAND (1)—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 1 mile north-west of Yanukh caravansarai
(q.v.).
TAZEHKAND (2)—
A village in Azarba jan, 17 miles south of Tabriz, on the caravan route
from Tabriz to Kirmanshah.— (Napier.)
TAZEHKAND (3)—
A small village in Azarba jan, 3 miles west of Alquh (q.v.). —(Schind
ler.)
TAZEHKAND (4)—
A small village in Azarbaijan, 1 mile south-east of Ajabshir (q. v.).—
(Schindler.)
TAZEHKAND (5)—
A hamlet of five houses in Azarbaijan, 3 miles south of Lailan, on the
caravan route from Tabriz to Kirmanshah.— (Napier.)
TAZEHKAND ( 6 )—
A small village in Azarbaijan on the road between Mlanduab and Sauj
Bulagh, and 9 miles from the former.— (Schindler.) J
TAZEHKAND (7)—
A prosperous Turk village of 40 houses in north-western Azarbaijan
about 5| miles south-east of Sufi.— (Picot, 1894.)
TAZEHKAND ( 8 )—
A village in Azarbaijan, containing about twenty or thirty houses, situat
ed about 9 miles from Ahar on the left of the Ahar stieam.—(MacGregor.)
TAZARKASH—
A village in the Kazvin district, on the left of the road thence to Rasht—
1 | miles west of Mazrah. — (Schindler.)
TEHRAN (Province)—
This province comprises the districts of Sauj Bulagh, Shahryar, Fishavi-
yeh (Pishapoyeh), Sh?.mran, Kasran, and Varamln with assessed taxes
amounting to 100,000 tumdns per annum.— (Schindler.)

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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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