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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [111r] (226/982)
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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CHIGINl—
A tribe of tbe Tihran group of Luristan (q.v.).
CHIGNl TAHMASP KHANI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A river or stream in Luristan. The Rukruk Division of the Bala
Girieh tribe have their qishldqs or winter quarters near this river, at a
spot named Dalbar which belongs to them. The woods near the river
abound with francolin.— (Rabino, 1905.)
CHfflLAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the neighbourhood of Shushtar, Khuzistan, on the road from
Shushtar to Isfahan via Gutwand and Bazuft. There is no
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
The pasture is abundant.— [Mackenzie.)
CHlKA CHA&MEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A high mowu&d in Khuxistan, a few miles to the northward of Dizful, pro
bably the remains of an “ Atishkadeh, ” or fire temple.—(ScAmdZer.)
CHlLAU— Lat. 32® 25' N. Long. 49° 46'E. Elev. 3,750'.
A village and Imdtnzadeh in the Bakhtiari country, on the slope of a
valley, H miles broad, situated 1,000 yards to the right of the track from
Dizful to K aleh Bazuft rid Duma Khail, at 94 miles from the former. The
valley is well-cultivated.— (McSn'iney^ 1891.)
0HILA VALLEY— Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in Kirmanshah in the Kalhur Sardsxr, about 45 miles south
west by west of Kirmanshah city.
It is about 13 miles in length from north-west to south-east, and varies
in breadth from two to three miles ; to the north-west it runs into the Gillan
valley, being watered by the same stream. Its elevation at Kaleh Shah
Taqi, an ancient ruin at the low T er end of the valley, is 3,860 feet, and at the
higher or south-east end is 4,435 feet. It is filled to a great extent
by low hills, which follow the general run of the mountain chains between-,
which it is situated, viz., from north-west to south-east. The ranges on
either side rise from 1,000 to 1,400 feet above it and they are well wooded,
the ravines, especially those on the south slope into the valley, being densely
crowded with trees, chiefly oak. The place is well-watered by spiings
and streams ’, the grazing is good. It is inhabited by the Siah Siah Kurds
under Akbar Khan. They number 1,000 tents, of which about half are
in this valley. In winter they move down, leaving, however, 200 tents at
Kaleh Shah Taqi, which remain there all the year round. The tribe own
a certain number of horses and mules, as well as large herds of sheep and
goats, which latter probably number not less than five or six thousand.—
(Vaughan.)
CHILEAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A canal branching off from the left bank of the Jarrahi river about half
mile below Nahr-ash-Shaikh. The population dependent on it are Ka’b
of the Al Bu Ghubaish Sub-division ; their fighting strength is 20 men, all
2 D 2t
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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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