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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [326r] (656/706)
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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VARK—VARZ
639
YARKlAN—
A village in the Damghan district, 3 miles south of Damghan.— (Schind
ler.)
VARMAKAN.— Elev. 6,670/
Stands on the Kandula-Sinneh road, 7 miles north of the ford of the
Gavarra river, in a small grassy and cultivated Valley. The surrounding
hills are bare of trees, hold grass, and slope gently down : on them are
scattered patches of cultivation. The water-supply is plentiful from a
number of springs. The village consists of 35 houses of Kurds owning
numbers of cattle, sheep and goats. Room for camping ; cowdung fuel
only available.—(Rarfow.)
VARPUSHT or BARPUSHT.— Elev. 6,620/
A village of 120 houses, with a castle, about 37 miles from Isfahan
towards Burujird.—($cfo'wdZer.)
VARTUN—
A village in Kuhpa, 26 miles east of Isfahan. It contains only twenty
families and is surrounded by some gardens and trees. Its situation,
on a wide barren plain, is most dreary, and the water is barely drinkable.—
(K. Abbott.)
VARUN or VARAN—
A village of 200 houses in the Jasb valley, province of Qum.—
(Schindler.)
YARUYl—
A small village in Azarbaljan, 2 miles south-east of Maragheh.—
(Schindler .)
VAR VEIS—
A village in Kirmanshah, about 24 miles north-west of Kirmanshah
city, on the road to Rawansar, distant about 20 miles, situated at the foot
of a high hill on which is an ancient tower called Veis. It contains a few
houses inhabited by Kurds.
There are no trees ; some crops and cultivation; water from the left
bank of the Kara-Su close by. Supplies : 80 cows, 200 sheep and goats;
good grazing.—( Vaughan.)
VARZANEH.— Lat. 32° 25' 30" ; Elev. 5,000'.
A town belonging to peasant proprietors, the chief place of the Rudasht
buluh of the Isfahan province, about 15 miles north of the Gav Kbaneh
and 67 miles east of Isfahan ; it lies at the south-east corner of the Rudasht
plain in the Kuhpa district. There are 1,000 pairs of oxen for the plough.
1,600 kharwdrs (1,040,000 lbs.) of grain are sown yearly. Taxes 3,500
titmdns. The town is divided into seven quarters, and contains 1,000 houses,
population 6,000. It has seven mazra’ehs dependent on it, which it supplies
with labour. All water is supplied from the river, which is usually but a
mere thread on the east of the town.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
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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