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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [321r] (646/706)
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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ULSHAN—
A village in the Jamalabad district passed on the Kazvln-Rasht road,
some 10 miles short of Manjil. It is in the Shah-rud valley.— {Schindler.)
UMAL—
A village in Mazandaran, about 10 miles from Sari, on the road to Farah-
abad. It is inhabited by Jabeglu and Mudanlu Kurds.— {Holmes.)
UMAR MIL—
A village in Kirmanshah situated on the Halabjik road and about 5
miles north-north-west of the city of Kirmanshah. It contains about 40
houses, a large garden full of trees, and a large pond fed by a good stream.
Crops and cultivation. Supplies : 50 donkeys, 100 cows, 600 sheep and
goats ; no firewood ; good grazing. Roads from here to Dostawand, dis
tant 1 mile, and to Yakllieh distant 6 miles.— {Vaughan.)
UNDAK1A—
A well-to-do village, about 15 miles west of Firuzkuh 'and the same dis
tance east of the Damavand mountain.— {Lovett.)
URAMUVAR—
A village in Kirmanshah, about 38 miles north-west of Kirmanshah
city, and 17 miles from Juanrud on the road between these two places. It
contains about 20 houses inhabited by Jafs. There are large plantations
of trees close by, between it and the river Kara-Su which is not far of!, the
village being on its left bank. Large crops and cultivation ; firewood
scarce; good grazing. Supplies: 100 cows, 400 sheep and goats.
{Vaughan.)
URAZ—
A narrow defile, commanded by rocky heights about 1| miles short of
the plateau of Rudbar, on the Tehran-Shah-rud road, by Firuzkuh.— {Napier.)
URDAKLU (Urdak, Turk duck)—
A small village on the Malian river and eastern slopes of the Yazdijird
mountain, about 11 miles south of Daulatabad, to the right of the road
thence to Buruj ird.— {Schindler. )
URDIB —Elev. 3,660'.
A village in the Biabanak district north of Yazd, 19 miles north-west
of Biabanak. A small walled village containing about 60 houses. It is
situated at the foot of some low bare hills bounding the Baiaza plain to
the north-west. It has about 10 acres of cultivation, and possesses about
150 sheep and 400 goats.
It has several gardens and numerous date and other trees.
Water plentiful and pure from a kandt stream and also from two othei
streams. Firewood plentiful. Camping- ground good.— {Vaughan, 1890.)
UREH CHAI—
A small stream in north-western Azarbaijan, tributary of the Zilbir Chal
which, rising in the Mesho Dagh, south of Valdian, crosses the Marand-
Kk 6 I road, about 10| miles from Khoi.— {Picot, 1894.)
URGHURT—
Iron mines lying 12 miles north of Ahar, Azarbaijan, ; these were for
merly worked under the superintendence of Sir Henry Bethune on account
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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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