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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [316r] (636/706)
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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TEHRAN
619
the city is situated at an altitude of over 3,800' and the climate for the
greater part of the year is delightful, whilst in summer there is an easy
and rapid retreat to the mountain slopes.” w
Mean normal observation at Tehran, extracted from the Reports of he
Meteorological Department of the Government of India up to end of 1902.
f '
Month.
Maximum.
Minimum.
Wind.
Rain.
January ..
42-3
26-2
N. 40° E.
1-29"
February ..
52°
31-8
N. 40° E.
0-82"
March
57-2
38-3
N. 13° W,
2 •SO"
April
71-4
48-9
S. 72° E.
1-18"
May
87*7
62-2
S. 79° W.
0-33"
June
94-4
77-2
S. 63° W.
0-04'
July
98-3
72-1
S. 30° W.
o-4r
August
96-7
70-7
S. 8° W.
0-05"
September
90-7
64-9
S, 37° E.
014'
October
..
77-5
/j
54-1
N. 34° E.
o-icr
November
61-5
42-2
N. 35° E.
1-96"
December
51-3
33-9
N. 30° E,
6-37'
Population. —The population of Tehran is about 220,000 souls, of whom
some 4,000 are Jews, and 1,000 Armenians.
Besides the official European element, diplomats, officers of the Tele
graph Department, foreign officers employed in the Persian Army and a few
other Government officials, there are a goodly number of other Europeans,
speculators, small traders, etc., and chevaliers d’industrie; the total Euro
pean population at the time of Lord Curzon’s visit being estimated at 500.
Resources. —Water is brought from Elburz in kanats.
Grain is grown in large quantities round Tehran ; but the land is mostly
Government property, and cabinet ministers find it an easy source from
which to “ feather their nests.” The result has been that, owing to this
monopoly and the consequent forcing up of prices, “ bread riots ” are a
common occurrence in Tehran. In 1912 the Treasurer General took over
the administration of Government crops, and also commenced a system
of Government bakeries for supplying bread to the townspeople.
There is little detailed information about the resources of Tehran, either
the town or province. The chief products are rice, sugar, cotton and fruits.
Among fruits the grape is largely cultivated, and some good wine produced :
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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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