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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎365v] (735/982)

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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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PAT—PER
720
32° 12' N. Long. 48° 4' E.
PA TAQ on PAIN XAQ— Lat. 34° 25' 12" ; Long. 46° 12' 397 Elev
A village near the foot of the pass called Taq-i-Gahareh, near Kannd m
the Kirmanshah district. The village numbers about 20 families of Kurds,
miserably poor. In the summer they lie in huts made of reeds and branc es
of trees ; in the winter, in houses of rough, unhewn stone.cemented with mud.
It lies at the end of the Bishaveh plain on the right bank of a fresh water
torrent called Ab-i-Darrch, and has a rough and ready caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). ; there
is a new one building. Its name either signifies “ the foot of the throne ,
or “the lower station.” Supplies search.—(Vaughan.)
PAUCHARIL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Eastern Khuzistan, eight stages east of Shfishtar on
the road to Isfahan— (Mackenzie.)
PEHLYAN—Lat. 30° 36' Long. 52° 27' Elev.
A village, a dependency of Asupas, f of a mile west of the road from
that place to Ujan.—(Grahame, 1908.)
PEHYANDEH or PEHVINDEH— Lat
Elev.
A village in northern ’ Arabistan on the Shushtar-Dizful road, 16 miles
north-west of Shushtar. The land in its neighbourhood is the property of
Muhammad Javad Khan, Muntazam-ud-Dauleh, a Bakhtian Khan. It is
composed of 60 mud huts of Haft Lang Bakhtiaris. There is a small fort, and
200 yards to the north are a few Mar trees, while 600 yards to the south,
on the road, is a built-over well of fresh water In the hot weather Arabs
under Shaikh Farhan Asad of the Kathir come here for pasturage, and k
shallow wells in a dry watercourse beside the village.
PERSEPOLIS or TAKHT-I-JAMSHlD —Lat. 29° 58' N. Long. 52° 54 E.
Elev. 5,500'. _
Situated on the plain of Marvdasht, some 40 miles north-east of Shiraz
and not far from where the river Pulvar flows into the Kur.
structure is a large terrace with its east side resting on the Kuh-.-Kahma^
The other three sides are formed by a retaining wall varying m height from
14 to 41 feet; and on the west side a magnificent double stair leads the
top. On this terrace stand and lie the ruins of a number of colossal buddmg?
all constructed of calcareous limestone, resembling mar e, ® ... -
neighbouring mountain. These ruins, for which the name Chehi
can be traced back to the 13th century, are now known as the Takht-i-Jam-
shid. That they represent the Istakhr or Persepolis, captured and part
ially destroyed by Alexander the Great, is beyond dispute. It has bee
ascertained from the inscriptions that some of the edifices a* 6 th e “
Darius I, Xerxes and Artaxerxes III. The ruins on the platform consist
of-(l) The porch of Xerxes; (2) Hall of Xerxes; (3) Palace of Dams < 4 )
Palaoe of Artaxerxes III; (5) Palace of Xerxes ; (6) South-east edifice,
(7) Hall of 100 columns. Behind the Takht-i-Jamshid are three tombs
hewn out of the rock in the hillside, the fapades bmg «chly ornamented
with reliefs. They are probably those of Artaxerxes II, B. G. 361 , Artaxerxes

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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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