'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [343r] (690/706)
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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GLOSSARY, etc.
AB—ARB
A.
AB—Water, or river. This word may either be placed before the word quali
fying it (in which case it is connected therewith by the Persian “ izafat'\
or “ t ”) or after it, when the two coalesce.
Examples. —Ae-i-sard : “ The cold river ” or water. K am an dab : “ The
lassoo river ” from its winding course. In Kurdish it is pronounced
Au.
ABAD—A termination meaning “ cultivated ”, " abode ”, and hence used
much as “ ton ”, “ thorpe ”, etc., are in English.
Examples. —Khurramabad : “ Pleasant-ton.”
’ABD — Servant, slave. Much used with Allah, God, as 'Abdullah or
’Abdallah, “Servantof God.”
ABU—Father (in composition with another noun) : often shortened to bu.
AGHA—Master, Sir. Used sometimes as a respectful appellation of are nuch,
as Agha Muhammad Khan.
AGHACH—Tree (Turkish).
AHMAD—A proper name, signifying “ most praiseworthy ”, often forming
the name of a village or town, with “ abad ”, as Ahmadabad.
’AIN—A fountain or spring; literally, “eye”.
AIYUB—Proper name. Job.
’A JAM—An Arabic name for Persian, and the Persians, signifying “ barbarously-
speaking”.
AKBAR—A proper name, signifying “ most great ”, and often forming the name
of a village or town, with “ abad ”, as Akbarabad.
AKHUR—Stable; hence Mir-Akhur, “ Master of the horse”.
’ ALI—A proper name, signifying “ exalted ”, often forming the name of a village
or town, with “ abad ”, as ’Aliabad.
AMBAR—Store, barn, rick, warehouse ; hence Abambar, “ reservoir.”
AMIN—An epithet or title, signifying “ entrusted ”, often used to form, with
“ abad ”, the name of a village or town, as AmInabad.
AMIR—Ruler, commander, noble, (plural Umar a) often used in names of towns,
etc., as Amirabad.
ANAR—Pomegranate.
ANGUR—Grapes.
ANJlR—Fig.
AQ—White, Ex. Aqdeh, “ Whitethorpe ” (Turkish).
ARBAB—Plural of Rabb, Lord, and sometimes used in a sense of “ noble ”,
or “ possessors ”.
ARG or ARK or ARZ—The “ ark ” or citadel of a town ; hence Arz-i-rum,
or, as generally spelt, Erzeroum or Erzerum.
ARJAN—Wild almonds.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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