'Report on Kurdistan' [88v] (181/220)
The record is made up of 1 volume (106 folios). It was created in 1911. 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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164
MER—MIR
MERIVAN—
A district of Kurdistan. * •
See Report on Kurdistan, Part T.
MERIVAN (Merivan)—
A fort and village in the district of Merivan. The village belongs to Zafar-ul*
Mulk.
See Report on Kurdistan, Part I.
MERK (Merivan)—
A village of the district of Merivan. It is \ farsakh from Dari on the road
thence to Vaisseh.—(Customs.) Doctor Mann speaks of it as Merek.
MIANEH (Hubitu)—
A village of the district of Hubitu.—(GWmrnew/: list.)
MIETTJ (Sakiz)—
A village of the district of Sakiz. It is on the road from Baneh to Sakiz
at 8£ farsakhs from Baneh and 3 from Senna.—(Customs.)
MIK—
A village in the district of Sakiz, Kurdistan, on the road from Senna to
Sulaimanieh.— (Rich.)
MILLEH (Kalatarzan)—
A village of the district of Kalatarzan.—(Goi'ernmewf list.)
MILLEH MURVARID—
A defile in Kurdistan running north and south between Kamiaran and Guruk
on the Kirmanshah-Senna road. It is about six or seven miles long. The
hills through which it passes, though lofty, are bare and brown. There are
no trees, villages, or cultivation.—(P/owdew.)
MILLEH-SUR (Kalatarzan)—
A village of the district of Kalatarzan.— (Government list.)
MIRABAD (Baneh)—
A village of the district of Baneh. It is \ farsakh distant from ZeiVav
Ulia on the road from Saiyid-Sarem to Sueru.— (Customs.) .. a
MIRABAD (Merivan)—
A vilh ge of the district of Merivan. It is 1| farsakhs from Merivan on the
road thence to Baneh via Taratuleh. (Customs.)
MIRAD-GURAMI (Tribe)—
A branch of the Kalbaghi tribe.
See Tribes of Kurdistan.
MLREDEH (Sakiz)—
A village of the district of Sakiz. It is on the road from Baneh to Sakiz
at 7£ farsakhs from the former and 4 from the latter.— (Customs.)
MIRGASSAR (Javarud)—
A village of the district of Javarud.— (Government list.)
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Confidential report compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino. The report was printed in Simla at the Government Monotype Press, 1911.
The report is divided into three parts (I-III), as follows:
Part I: Geographical and Commercial Notes (folios 6-39) with sections on the province of Kurdistan (including information on cultivation, population, revenue, roads, imports/exports, and the capital, Senna), its tribes (including statistics on population, land, and residences), rivers, and mountains, and appendices comprised of government lists of villages.
Part II: History (folios 40-54) with a chart showing the Valis and Provincial Governors of Kurdistan for the years 1169-1905 (folio 41).
Part III: Gazetteer of Kurdistan (folios 55-104) arranged alphabetically.
At the back of the volume is a glossary (folios 105-06) including notes on the weights used in Kurdistan.
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There is a contents page at the front of the volume (f 5) which refers to the volume's original pagination.
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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 108; 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.
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