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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [329v] (663/706)
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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646
YAN—YAZ
YANGIJEH (3)—
A village 45 miles from Mianeh, to the right of the road thence to Tabriz—
(Schindler.)
YANGIJEH (4)—
A village 11 ^ miles from Zinjan on the road thence to Tabriz.—
(Schindler.)
YANGI-JEH (5)—
A village of Azarbaijan, 33 miles east of Ahar, on the road to Ardabil.
Sauj Bulagh is 9 miles west.— (Holmes.)
YANGIKAND (1)—Lat. 38° O' 30".
A small village in Azarbaijan, 15 miles from Tabriz, to the right of the
road thence to Maragheh.— (Schindler.)
YANGIKAND ( 2 )—
A small village, 2 miles south of Kushajeh, 144 miles from Tehran on
the road to Hamadan.— (Schindler.)
YANKALEH—
A village of Azarbaijan, 13 miles from Tabriz, on the road south to Gugan.
It has forty houses.— (Nayier.)
YANUKH— Elev. 4,054'.
A caravansarai in Azarbaijan, also called caravansarai Khusrau Shah
19f miles from Tabriz on the road thence to U^gheh.—(Schindler.)
YASALl—
A village of 80 houses, 4 miles west of Babukabad, 163 miles from Tehran
on the Hamadan road.— (Schindler.)
YASIN TAPPEH—
A village near Urbat, on the Turkish border of Kurdistan, one stage
anf Aic/O almanleh ’ ^ ^ t0 Gulamb ^ r and Z^*b.—(Ilawlinson
YAVR—
, in i the / aramIn district t0 th right of the road from Tehran
Mu“A»fe, ,eS fr ° m ^ f ° rmer PlaCe ' Ik bd °^ to
YAWALEH—
A village near the road between Sinneh and Kirmanshah, about 16
miles short of Karankup, going towards the latter.-—(Ife 66 .)
YAZD (Province)—
Consists of a number of villages in the immediate nieghbourhood of the
town and of offshoots to the north-east, north-west, south-east and south-
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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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