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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [329r] (662/706)
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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either hand. There are 30 houses of Kurds. The grazing is very good
on the mountain sides, which contain also small bushes, but no trees, A
number of cattle and sheep are owned by the villagers. {Burton.)
YAM IN AN VALLEY—
A valley of Persian Kurdistan running down from the east side of
the Udalan Kuh to the Gavarra river which it joins on the Sinneh-
Kirmanshah road some 50 odd miles north of Kirmanshah. It contains
the two villages of Upper and Lower. Yamanan, numbering about 60
houses. The length of the valley from the Sardareh pass at its head is
51 miles ; and it is traversed for the upper 3 miles by the pass from Smneh
to Juanrud via the bridge of Darvish Beg. The lower part is about \ mile
wide, the upper a mere ravine with a cultivable width of 30 or 40 yards
only. The water is very abundant, and the stream down to Lower \ amanan
lined with magnificent walnut trees : in the lower portion there are willows,
poplars and fruit trees. The corn above Upper Yamanan is not ripe till
August: below it is cut during the end of July. The grazing in the side
valleys at the head and the upper slopes of the mountains is ^er\ good.
(Bvrton.)
YAMANAN—
A mountain of eastern Ardalan, seen on the west from Takht-i-Sulai-
man, which is 34 miles south ot Sinn eh. (Gevavdi)
YiMCHl (1)—
A village in Khamseh on the Zmjaneh Bud, 13 miles below Zmjan.
(Schindler.)
YAMCHl (2)—
An important village of 1,500 houses in north-western Azarbaijan on
the north of the road from Marand to Kbdi,—(Picot, 1894.)
YANGlDEH—
A village on the Riza Chad 3 miles south-west of Nuvaran on the northern
slopes of the Mushtavar dagh. It is in the Hamadan province.—(Schindler.)
YANGl IMAM— Elev. 4,110'.
The third station (half-way house) on the new post-road from Tehran
to Kazvin. Hotel with good accommodation ; caravansarai; grave of an
Imamzadeh, blue dome ; old mound.—
Rations are available for 400 men.— (Schindler.)
YANGlJEH (1)—
A village in the Anguran district of Azarbaijan.—(Todd; Rawlinson.)
YANGl JEH (2)—
A village in north-western Azarbaijan, about 6 miles from Khoion tbe
Kizil-Dizeh road, a little south of the road.—(PicoO 1894.]
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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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