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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎340v] (685/706)

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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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ZIR—ZUH
of tile family, is built of logs cemented with mud. The village is situated on
the river Talar, which often inundates it, hence its name Zirab, “under
water. ”
The valley is cultivated with rice, but no supplies are procurable.— {Stewart »
Baker.)
ZIRANAH—
A village of the Ardabil district of Azarbaijan, passed a few miles north
east of Ardabil, on the road to Namin.— [Holmes.)
ZIRAWAN—
A small village of Mazandaran, a little to the west of Ashraf .—{Holmes ;
Napier.)
ZlR-DARBAND—
Part of the bid 'k of Mian Darband or Bilawar.
For a list of the villages see Rabino’s “ Gazetteer of Kirmanshah, 1907 ”.
ZIRKH CHAL—
A high hill in the southern part of the Jajrud district.— {Schindler.)
ZIRMAND—Elevation about 8,000 feet.
A village on the Nimrud, a few miles west of Arjumand, and south-east of
the Damavand mountain.— {Lovett.)
ZUGRALEH—
A village of thirty houses, a mile from Marak Khraba, on the Qaptan Kuh
and to the right of the road from Tehran to Ramadan, 127 miles from
Tehran.—(/Se/imd^er.)
ZGHAB—(Village).—E lev. 21,00'
A small village of some 30 houses situated on the ruins of an extensive
town, no one lives there now (1912). Of this place Sir H. Rawlinson, writing
some 50 years ago, said, “ the town of Zuhab was built a hundred years
ago by a Turkish pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the Government continued to be hereditary
in his family till the conquest of the Pashaliq by the Persians. The capital
was surrounded by a mud wall and may have at first contained about 1,000
houses. From its frontier position it has been exposed to constant spoliation
in the wars between Turkey and Persia, and is now a ass of ruins with
scarcely 200 inhabited houses.” In 1900 there were 40 inhabitants. In
1912, the town was uninhabited.
The Persians say that during the war under Muhammad ’All Mirza
Zuhab furnished to the Turks 1,000 horsemen clad in chain armour.
‘ ‘ The climate of Zuhab is proverbially unwholesome, and the water,
though clear and not unpleasant to the taste, contains some pernicious
mineral component that, if indulged in for a short time only, seriously affects
the traveller. To the natives, however, it is not so baneful, but they are,
neverth '1 *ss, aware of its bad qualities, for they recommend a raw onion
to tHe stranger before a draught is indulged in. The water of the Shlrvan
Hulvan and Zimkan is alike deleterious, both to men and cattle ; so indeed
are with few exceptions the whole ofthe springs which have their origin in

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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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