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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎211v] (427/982)

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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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412
IVA—IZZ
It is situated in a narrow, green plain among hills. It has a fort and
some good, tall houses ; also numerous db-ambdrs, some of which are very-
large, with high, domed roofs of stone. The - well-water is brackish. Its
population numbers about a thousand, though it is partly uninhabited,
owing to the deaths which occurred during the famine of 1880. There
are a few merchants’ houses in Tvaz and, on the whole, the place is now
in a flourishing condition. The plain of Tvaz is 20 miles long and 1 mile
wide. It has a few groves of Jcundr and tamarisk trees, in one of which
the large, white dome of a shrine serves as a landmark.— (Stack.)
TZZABAD (1)—Lat. 32° 5' N. Long. 54° 7' E. Elev.
A village, 17 miles west of Yazd. It is gradually undergoing the
change which other villages of this plain have experienced from sand
drifts. On its south side the gardens and houses have been buried for
a space of above 100 yards in breadth, and to the height of 15 feet to 20
feet, in a sand of finest grain.— (Abbott.)
IZZABAD (2)— Lat. 32° 39' N. Long. 51° 9' E. Elev.
A little village situated in a small barren valley near the road from
Isfahan to Burujird, between Hajlabal and Varpusht.— \Schindler.)
TZZABAD (3)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Ears in the Marvdasht plain.— (MacGregor.)
TZZATABAD (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Anar district (q.v.) of Kirman.
TZZATABAD (2)— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,400'.
A village in the Sirjan district of Kirman, 10 miles east-south-east of
Saidabad, on the road to Baft. It contains about 80 houses, and belongs
to the Buchakchi tribe of nomads.—(/Sy&es, 1900.)
TZZATABAD (3)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, 17 miles south of Saidabad, Kirman.— (Abbott.)
IZZATABAD (4) or KAHNU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Zarand district of Kirman, 57 miles from Kirman, on
the road to Yazd. It is also called Kahnu, and contains, with the adjoin
ing village of Yazdanabad (q.v.), 35 families.—(T66o«.)

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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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1 volume (487 folios)
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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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