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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎319r] (642/706)

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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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TISHNIZ—
A small village, in the Chahar Mahall district, 60 miles from Isfahan on
the road thence to Shushtar.— {Schindler.)
TIJAEJAN and TAZAEJAN—
A large village in the Shirkuh, Yazd. It is the best of all those, which
the Shirkhh hides in its well-watered recesses. Tizarjan has a river and
a wide area of field and wood, filling a broad hollow at the foot of the highest
peak of the Sliirkuh. Supplies and water procurable.— {Stack.)
TUCHAL, 1,200'.
A peak in the Shamran range north of Tehran.— {Lovett.)
TUDAE, or DUDAE—
A village in Persian Kurdistan in the neighbourhood of Duwaizeh to
wards Kaleliju. It is built in a hollow.— {T. C. Plowden.)
TUDASHK—Lat. 32° 43' 40'', Long. 52° 36' 18". Kiev. 6,600'.
65 miles east of Isfahan on the road to Naln, a village containing 80
houses, and a small caravansarai of sun-dried bricks. Water from kandts.
The place is commanded by low hills to its north.— {Schindler.)
TUDAEVAE—
A village 43 miles from Chasmeh ’Ali, on the Tehran road. It is situated
in a long narrow valley, and has about 200 houses. There is no cultivation
worth mentioning, as there is no suitable land, and not water enoughi It
furnishes 200 men for the Samnan regiment in lieu of taxes. It is situated
in a narrow gorge on the banks of a stream, ringed with luxuriant foliage,
the surrounding mountains being bare. There are three villages called
collectively Tudarvar, namely : Uz, Sah and Darvar.— {Morier ; Holmes.)
TUIH-LATlF—Baladeh.
A village situated in a small plain between the ’Ainalkush pass and the
mountains bordering Mahidasht plain. It is 200 yards off the left of
the road to Mahidasht, the foot of the mountain of the same name. It
belongs to Agha ’Abul Qasim and numbers from 15 to 20 houses. A small
stream rises here and j oins the river which passes through the middle of
the plain ; 2 villages each numbering 10 to 15 houses. ■ |
Cultivation : dbi and daimi. Garden crops are also produced. The
inhabitants have no special industry. When they have no work on hand
they transport stones to Kirmanshah. The inhabitants number about 20
families.
From the village to the foot of the pass the distance is £ farsakh. At
the soring there is a coffee-house known as Kafeh Khaneh ’Ainalkush
belonging to the proprietor of the village.— {Mirza of Customs, Mdhidasht;
Rabino.)
TUNAKABUN—
A district of Mazandaran, which lies between the Mlaneh-Kud and the
Namak-Eud Sar. The productions of its lowlands are rice, a little silk
of a quality inferior to that of Gilan, and sugar; while beans, wheat, and
C300GSB

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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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