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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [338v] (681/706)
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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664
ZAV—ZIA
Zangir to Gavarra. The inhabitants are Kurds of the Guran tribe belong
ing to the section of Shirkhan Sultan, and migrate to Zuhab in winter °
The valley is here cleared of forest, fertile and well cultivated. Grass
and water abundant, fuel from the mountains to the west: camp room and
supplies procurable.— (Burton.)
ZAYAR—
A village in Tunakabun district, Mazandaran, on the road between Amul
and Lain]an. The houses of this place are all dispersed in twos and threes
through the jungle.— (Fraser.)
ZAVAREH—
A very old town in the Garmsir district of the Ardistan Mahalloi the
Isfahan province, population (Schindler.)
ZAVARIAN—
it lies in tne middle of
dull red of the
A village about 20 miles south-west of Qum.
a plateau, and stands out as a patch of green upon the
pla teau.— (Stack.)
ZAYlEH (1 )—Elev. 5,350/
A Muhammadan village of north-west Azerbaijan in the Chaldaran dist-
nct eontammg 50 or 60 houses. The chief here receives an allowance of
2,000 temaw to keep up 60 sowars, as he is in charge of the caravan route
from Chaldaran to Husi.— (Picot, 1894.)
ZAVlEH (2)—
A large ^ lla f° f y50 houses to the right of the Tehran-Hamadan road
5 miles north of Khanabad and 55 miles from Tehran.
ZEND—
• A 1 fe ^ Z fi ds are t0 h f0Und in the distr ict of Duru-Faraman. Baghileh
is inhabited by some of them who call themselves the descendants of Karim
Khan Zend— (Kabino).
ZEN-UDDlN or ZAIN-UD-DIN—
A village in the_ Kirmanshah district about 32 miles north of that citv
situated in the Bilawar valley. It contains 90 houses inhabited by Bilawari
Kurds, Shi ahs. Some plantations of trees close by, and cultivation • good
grazing; supplies; 1,000 sheep and goats. Water from a stream.-(Fa M gL«.)
ZHOVARtfD (JUVARUD)—
A bum of Kurdistan 4 fmsahhs south-west of Sinandij and adjoining Avro-
man. It has 63 villages with a population of 10,000, mostly very poor
they speak the Avroman dialect, which differs very much from the dialect
spo ’en in. Sinandij. There are many old mosques in the district The
produce is just sufficient for the population. The yearly taxes until a few
years ago (1900) amounted to 41,140 krdns. (Schindler, 1902.)
ZlA-ABAD—
Si miles from Kazvin, on the Abhar river and to the left of the road to
Tabriz.— (Schindler.)
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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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