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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [110r] (224/982)
The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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and Has a shrine dedicated to Saiyid ’Abdul-Faiz. Water is obtained
from wells and from two cisterns.—{Shakespear, lf)05.)
CHEHAR TAQ (1)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears 9 miles from Nasirabad, situated in a pretty grove
of palm, pomegranate and fig trees.-— (Abbott.)
This may be identical with the valley of the same name, situated, accord
ing to Colonel Ross, a few miles south of Farrashband.
CHEHAR TAQ (2)— Lat. 28° 27' N. Long. 52° 59' E. Elev.
A village in South-East Fars on the road from Jehrum to Fasa. It
lies about 13 miles from Jehrum, and a little east of Baba ’Arab and south of
the road.— (Abbott —Stotherd, 1893.)
CHEHAR TAKHT— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,700'.
A pass nine miles south of Naghan village. Just before the ascent from
the Naghan river the ground is clothed with dwarf oaks ; farther on they
b come larger and closer. From the top of the pass, looking north, a very
fine view is obtained of Naghan Ardal with its villages and sprouting gra n-
fields, backed by the Kuh-i-Zirreh almost entirely covered with snow. Here
and there are small streams bursting through in cascades, hurrying on to
augment the main stream below.
The descent to Du Pulan for the first third is an easy gradient, the
road wide, winding along the hillside with some few stones about ; the next
third is bad, steep, narrow and stony, running down a gully between two
spurs of the hill, the last third descending to the village is good, the gully
opening out. The whole of the hillside on both hands was clothed (April)
with trees and shrubs.—(.Report of a Journey through the BakUidrl Country
to Shushtar.)
CHEHIL CHASHMEH (1)— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,200'.
A village in Faridan, a district of Isfahan, situated near the point where
the Zindeh Rud river enters that district.— (Sawyer, 1890.)
CHEHIL CHASHMEH, (2), CHINAL or CHAHAL—(or the 40 springs)—
The name given to the sources of the Zindeh Rud river of Isfahan.
— (Layard.)
CHEHIL MANl— Lat. 30° 18' N. Long. 49° 46' E. Elev.
A village in Southern ’Arabistan, on the left bank of the river Hindian
li miles south-west of Sahibabad. It is inhabited by 500 Qanawatis,
who cultivate grain and own about 150 cattle, 250 donkeys and 500
sheep and goats— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
CHEHIL MINAR, CHICHAL, orCHAHAI—
Names by which the ruins of Persepolis (Fars) are known to tne people
of Persia.— (Morier.)
112 I. B.
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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).
Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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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