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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [318r] (640/706)
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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There is a sturgeon fishery at the mouth of the river, farmed out by the Per
sian Government to a Russian company. It is said to produce some 12 000
fish annually. There is a bar at the mouth of the river. A defensive tower of
stone has been built on the sea-shore for protection against the Turkomans.
It is never garrisoned, but serves as a good landmark for vessels coasting along
the shore.— {Fraser ; Holme ; Namier \ Pushchin.)
TlJNAVAR—
A hamlet with 5 houses, ^ mile east of Lasgird. (Schindler.)
TIKAN—
A village of 100 houses, it is the fourth stage on the road from Isfahan
to Hamadan via Sultanabad. 2000 kharwars of wheat are produced an
nually, about 1,000 sheep, mciliat is 250 tuyntins.
TIKAN TAPPER (1)—
A village of 80 houses 3 miles north of Yulghun-Aghach in Afshar, Azar-
baljan.
TIKAN TAPPER (2)—
A village in Kurdistan, 160 miles from Tabriz on the road to Kirmanshah.
One hundred houses ; water plentiful—(Napier.)
TILANDASHT—
A place in the province of Kirmanshah, about 25 miles to the west of
the town of that name, occupied by some families of the Zanganeh tribe.—
(T. C. Plowden.)
TILEHKUH—
A district about 18 farsakhs to the north-west of Sinneh. It numbers 24
villages. The inhabitants are unruly and quarrelsome and number 4,240
souls° The Governor of the district has no fixed residence. Cultivation :
spring and autumn crops. Tobacco (tutun) is also cultivated. Water-
supply from springs. Many gardens have of recent years been planted.
Asl MCliat, 1,506 tumdns. The inhabitants are Sunni Shaffis.
The inhabitants are known as Tilehkuhis. The district is near the Turk
ish border, and in 1912 the Turks sent troops to occupy portions of it,
as well as Khurkhureh.
TIL-I-NAU.
A small village in Mazandaran between Rikaband and Kulbad (g-.v.), the
boundary between Mazandaran and Astarabad. It is one of a group of small
villages lying close to one another at the foot of the hills on the south of the
road to Astrabad. One of these villages is Tiltash, which see below.
TIL RtJD or TlLURUD—
A river in Mazandaran rising in the Elburz mountains, which flows into
the Caspian between ’Abbasabad and Kurkrud. It is fordable in the winter
only.— (Holmes.)
TILMA—
A village in the Sar-i-Tang valley to the east of Fulad-Mahalleh.— {Lov
ett.)
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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