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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎334v] (673/706)

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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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656
YUL—YUZ
YULGHUN-AGHAOH-CHAl—
A small stream flowing north into the Saruq, 20 miles south of Sanjud
on the northern borders of Kurdistan.— (Napier.)
YULGHU A LI—
A village in Azarbaijan, on the southern shore of the Urumieh lake and 5|
miles north-west of Malikandi.— (Schindler.)
YULQUPRl or YULGXJRPI.—
A one-arched bridge, 5 miles from ’Abdullahabad on the road to Lasgird,
and 106 miles from Tehran. It was built in the 17th century.— (Schindler.)
YUNGAR—
A hamlet of eight houses in southern Azarbaijan, 7 miles north of Sain-
kaleh, on the road to Lailan and Tabriz.— (Napier.)
YUNJl—
A village of 25 houses, 4 miles north of Daulatabad, Malayar.— (Schind
ler.)
YUNlSABAD —
A sarai surrounded by cultivation, on the north of the road from Kazvm
to Tehran, 19 miles from the former. Rations for 100 men available here.—
(Inzar Gal.)
YURT-I-SHAH—
A village on the eastern side of the Jajrud valley, east of Tehran and in
habited by Hadavand nomads in winter.— (Schindler.)
YUSUF AB AD—
A village on the road from Tabriz to Tehran, 25 miles from the former
place. Elevation 6 ,SIS'.— (Schindler.)
YUSUFKAND—
A village on the Sauj Bulagh river in southern Azarbaijan. It is 7 miles
north-west of Sauj Bulagh.— (Gerard.)
YUVARA —Elev. 5,200'.
Two hamlets totalling 30 houses south-east of Gavarra (Kirmanshah), 3
miles from it on the road to Harunabad. Is situated on both banks of a
small stream in a valley here \ mile in width and cultivated : to either hand
are low hills covered with dwarf oak scrub. Wood, water and forage are
abundant : there are some supplies available and camp room. The inhabi
tants are Guran Kurds, owning flocks and herds : tenants of the Amir-i-
Tuman Husain Khan of Gavarra.— (Burton.)
YUZ-BASHl CHAl—
A stream in the Kazvin district, ’Iraq-i-’Ajami, which flows north-west
and joins the Shahrud miles north-west of Pa-i-Chinar the united stream
then flows west and joins the Kizil Uzun at Manjil. Its elevation is 3,172
feet at Beg Baghi, 1,468 feet at Loshan bridge near Pa-i-Chinar and 910
feet at Manjil bridge.
YUZ-BASHl KANDl— _ J
A village of Azarbaijan, on the right of the road, 14| miles south of Binab
on the road to Mlanduab and Saln-kaleh.— (Napier ; Gerard.)

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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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