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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [327r] (658/706)
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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YEN—VUN
641
is said to have a Cufic inscription. There is said to have been a iarge
garden round it, water being brought up in massaks. It forms a good
landmark and a straight line drawn from it to the junction of the Kara-
Su and Ab-i-Mark rivers forms the Kirmanshah-Sinneh boundary for a
short distance.— (Vaughan).
VENISERD —Vide Tarum.
VlDHAND— See Bidasht.
VIJA—
A village in Azarbaijan, two marches south of Aslandiiz and three north
of Ahar.—(Morier.)
JANAN—
A plain in the Kalhur district, behind the Kuh-i-Anarak, on the way
from (Man to Mandali. This plain has a width of about 1 farsakh. The
road in the plain has a N.-N.-W., E.-S.-E. direction.
It affords winter quarters to the Khaladi and Kuchinu Kalhhrs.—
VINDARABAD—
A large village 14 miles beyond Kangavar, on the road to Hamadan.
It contains a lofty artificial mound.—(Taylor.)
VISHKUNAGAN (VISHKINIGlN)—
A village of 50 houses in the Jasb valley, province of Qum.—(Schindler.)
VISHLAR— ...
A village of 300 houses in north-western Azarbaijan, 7 miles north-east
of Khoi on the road to Avuglu and Julfa by the left bank of the Qutur Chai.-
(Picot, 1894.)
YISHNAYEH— , ^ 1
A small village in the Kuhistan sub-division of Qum between the Furdu
and Khanzadeh peaks, about half-way between Qum and Kashan, 29 miles
south by east of the former; 25 houses with immense gardens ; water
abundant from a stream. The
watershed
The boundary between adjacent drainage basins.
, south of Vishnaveh. is the
boundary between Qum and K^n.-(Schindler.)
VISHTAGAN—
A village of 60 houses in the Jasb valley,
province of Qum.— (Schindler.)
VUJlA— i .
A soot with a few trees planted round a tank on one of the 8 l°F n g spurs
Of the Shamran mountain. It is 12 miles north-north-east of Tehran.-
(Lovett.)
VUNDANl—
A village in the Kirmanshah district inhabited by Bilawari Kurds Shi’ahs
situated in the Bilawar vaUey, about 32 miles north of Kirmanshah city,
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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- 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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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