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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎320v] (645/706)

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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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628
UCH—ULK
U
UCHTAPPEH—
A village in Southern Azarbaijan 13 miles north-east of Sauj Bulagh on
the road to Ardabil. The name signifies “ Three hills ".—(Holmes ; Todd.)
UGAL (Baneh)—
A village about 7 miles south of Sinneh situated in a valley on the ri^ht
bank of the Qishlaq river : about 30 houses : well watered by streams
and with plantations of willow trees and gardens in the vicinity.—f Vauahan.)
UISKHAO—
A village about 7 miles south of Sinneh situated in a valley on the right
bank of the Sirwan river ; about 30 houses : well watered by streams and
with plantations of willow trees and gardens in the vicinity—( Vaughan.)
UJAN.— See CHAMAN-I-AUJAN.
A fertile and well watered plain in the Mihranrud district, Azarbaijan,
south-east of Tabriz. Famous summer camping-ground of former kin»s
of Persia.— (Schindler. )
UJAN CHAI—
A river of Azarbaijan rising on the southern slopes of the Sahand moun
tain ; it waters the Ujan plain and flows into the Aji Chal east of Tabriz.
The Ardabll-Tabrlz road enters its valley 30 miles east of Tsdonz—(Schind
ler.)
UJARUD—
A district of Azarbaijan, bounded on the north by the plain of Mughan,
east by the Bala-Rud. Garmi is its chief place. The inhabitants are
chiefly pastoral, possessing large flocks of sheep and droves of cattle.—
(Todd.)
UKILISAR .—Vide OUKILISA,
ULA—
A village in Western Azarbaijan a few miles south, of Dilman on the road
to Urumleh, on the western bank of that lake—(Ainsworth.)
ULADI—
A village 12 miles south of Urumleh in Azarbaijan on the road to Ushnu.
It is described as a fortified farm south of the Baranduz fort.— (Ainsworth.)
ULANG— Elev. 1,515'.
A village in the Khudabandehla sub-district of Khamseh.—(£cA indler)
’ULIA— Elev. 6,282'. ('Ulia means upper).
A small village on the western slopes of the Kanll Dagh, 14 miles north
east of Hamadan on the road to Tehran —(£cAmc&r.)
ULKAND—
A village in the Jamalabad district, north of Kazvln, passed on the Kaz-
vm-Rasht road, about 10 miles short of Manjil. It lies" west of the valley
of the Shah-rud.— (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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