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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [336r] (676/706)
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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a great height of rocky peaks, the ravines containing snow as late as July
and as low as 8,000 feet. ... i *
The valley has four springs of water in a central position ; also a few acres
of corn, reaped in July, and some vegetables. The grazing m spring is good,
and the vallev is frequented by shepherds, whose huts are terraced on the
hiU to the north : the flocks leave for the higher slopes of Parau m July.
The road from Kirmanshah to Kandula traverses the valley, entering from
the south-east over the Tang-i-Lulan, and leaving to the north-north-west
by the gorge of Sizdeh Khiran. _ _ _
' The valley is (1897) the property of Haji Ibrahim Khan of Kirmanshah.
— (Burton.)
ZALU CHASHMEH—
A spring in the Jajrud valley, not far from the village of Tuqchal (q. v.)
— (Schindler).
ZAMANABAD (1)—Elev. 6,578'.
A village with 40 house s 17| miles from Hamadan, on the road to
Burujird via DauEtabad Malayar. (Schindler.)
Z 4 MANABAD (2)— rl
A village in Kirmanshah about 24 miles west by south of that city and
on the Mahidasht plain : it contains about 20 houses inhabited by Kalhur
Kurds. It has some crops and cultivation. Water from a stream, sup
plies : firewood, wheat, barley, cows, sheep and gouts—(Vaughan.)
ZAMKAK, SeeZIMKAN—
ZAMRUD— , - ^ ^ , ,, v
A river in Tehran flowing in a south-westerly direction towards the Vara-
mln plain ; Aiwan-i-Kif is situated on it. It flows in a ravine which dries
up in August, water brackish.; (Bellew; Goldsmith.)
ZAND
A tribe of PeisA, at one time the ruling tribe of that country. Lutf ’All
Khan was the last of the Zands.
The western peak of a range of hills in Azarbaijan, rising 1,000 m altitude
above lake Urumleh, to the west of which it lies. It lies north of Gavalan,
and is also called Turz Zandasht bv the Chaldeans.—(/ImmurtA)
ZANGANEH—(Tribe)— o kaa f r a tw
A Kurdish tribe of Kirmanshah numbering some 2,500 families their
chief is Muhammad Baza Khan Zahir-ul-Mulk, whose grandfather Mustafa
Quli Khan was Governor of Kirmanshah before Muhammad Ah Mirza.
The Zanganehs are divided as follows :
Taifeh Kanduleh
„ Namavand
„ Namavand
„ Karkuki ..
„ Chehri
„ Shamsh'ir Chubin
„ Baity arvand
Hasan Khan.
Haji Rustam Khan.
Haji Rustam Khan and Mabdi
Khan Sultan.
’All Khan Sultan.
Muhammad Taki Khan Yavar.
Muhammad Hasan Ilbegi.
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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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