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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [337r] (678/706)
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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ZAN—ZAR
661
ZANGIREH— Elev. 4,080/
Twenty-four miles from Maraud, about 2 miles south of the road to Khol.
— (Picott, 1894.)
ZANYlEH—
A village of north-western Azarbaijan, 30 miles north-west of Kh5i, on
the road to Bayazid. It is situated in a cultivated plain. (Morier.)
ZAR-AFSHAN—
A river in the Sain kaleh district of Azarbaijan, forming the principal
source of the east branch of the Jaghatu.
ZARAN—
A village in upper Silakhur, 6 miles south-east of Burujird and to the left
of the road thence to Isfahan—(ScAmdfer.)
ZARAND—
A district fifty-five miles south-west of Tehran : it is a large district con
taining a number of fine villages, which afford abundant supplies. The
horses of the Persian artillery and cavalry are often quartered here on ac
count of the forage and supplies procurable. The chief place of the
district is the village Zarand, with sixty houses ; its largest village is
Mam uni eh with three hundred houses. The Governor is represented by a
Lieutenant who resides at Zarand. It joins the Saveh, district on the
s 0 utb.— (Schindler.)
ZARAU KtJH—
A range of hills, bounding the Zarand district on the west and passed by
the Tehran-Hamadan road at Azadtain {q.v.) at an altitude of 5,000. —
[Schindler.)
ZARDABAD— _
A village in Ardalan to the north of the road between Kirmanshah and
Sinneh, about twelve miles from the latter. [Taylor.)
ZARDAI—
One of the four clans of the ’All
Kirmanshah.— [Floyer.)
Illahi sect living in Karind in western
ARDEH SAVAR-Elev. 5,020.
A Kalhur Kurd village of 15 houses standing above the road from Haran-
-uA to Khmanshah, via Zailan, 7 miles from the former : above it is the
wooded spur of Zardeh Savar, conspicuous among the surrounding bare
oonteins bv its clumps of iak trees. The village is increased in summer
r ?0 huts of boughs There is a scanty water-supply from springs, and
7 l litde cultivatfon. The people own a large number of sheep and some
cattle M and forage abundant: few supplies and those m summer only.
— [Burton.)
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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'
- Pages
- 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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