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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [324r] (652/706)
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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VAI—YAL
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635
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VACHAK—>
A stream in Mazandaran crossed on the road between Salmrud and
Zavar, and falling into the Caspian a little east of the Shlr-i-Rud. {Holmes.
VAIDAGH—
A mountain south of Nubaran between the Mushtavar dagh and Am-
jakdagh, at the eastern end of the Dukhan district.— {Schindler.)
VAIHUN—
A village west of Firuzkuh, about 150 houses ; supplies of all sorts obtain
able.
VAKILlEH.—See Baqirabad. J
VALASHGIRD—
A small poorly populated village, about 200 miles south-east of Kir-
manshah on the Kirmanshah-Qum road. Can hardly spare any supplies.
A kanz flows through the village.
VALANDUN—
A small village close to that of Marun about 52 miles from Isfahan on
the road to Shiraz by Abadeh.— {Taylor ; Hardy.)
VALDlAN—
A small village in north-western Azarba'jan, 336 miles from Marand
and 14 from Kh5I, and lying about 2 miles south of the road The hills
in the neighbourhood are of clay and gravel and furnish good grazing.
The main road is passable for carriages in ordinary weather.— {Picot, 1894.)
VALTABAD— Elev. 7,000'.
A village in Mazandaran, due north of Tehran, and between Gachisar
and Asulat.— {Lovett.)
VALIAN (1)—
A village of 40 houses in lower Sllakhur, 12| miles from Burujird on the
road to Isfahan, with the graves of the Imamzadeh Sultan Ahmad of the
family of Imam Muhammad Baqar, and his sister Khadaijeh Khatun. Good
water and a few supplies.— {Schindler.)
VALIAN (2)— cf. Namln, page 455.
A large village bearing 22° from Sunqurabad on the Tehran-Kazvin
road and about 5 miles distant from Yangi Imam, half-way between Kaz-
vin and Tehran.— {Schindler.)
VALKHl—c/. NAMlN.
A district in Talish west of Astara. The Kara-Su forms the boundary
between it and Ardabil.— {Todd; Holmes.)
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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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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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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