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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎242v] (489/1278)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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CHIGlNl TAHMASP KHANl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A tribe in Luristan, see Chigini.
CHIHLAN— 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.)
CHlLA CHAKMI (WHITE HILL)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A high mound in Khuzistan, a few miles to the northward of Dizful,
probably the remains of an ‘ Atishkadeh ”, or fire-temple.— {Schindler.)
CHILAG— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village and Imdmzddeh in the Bakhtiau country, on the slope of a
valley, 1 J miles broad, situated 1,000 yards to the right of the track from
Dizful to Kaleh Bazuft via Duma Khail, at 94 miles from the former. The
valley is well-cultivated. {McSwiney, 1891.)
CHILA VALLEY— Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in Kirmanshah, in the Kalhur Sardsir, 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 2 to 3 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 lower 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 springs
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 owns
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 f
mile below Nahr-ash-Shaikh. The population dependent on it are Ka’b
of the A1 Bu Ghubaish sub-division ; their fighting strength is 20 men, all
mounted and armed with rifles. Twenty faadddns are cultivated and theie
are gardens, 50 cattle, and 100 sheep and goats.— { Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer,
1908.)
CHILHASH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A torrent rising from the Kuh-i-Rang mountain and watering the village
of Pir Sar Sahid {vide this Gazetteer.)

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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).

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 towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.

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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 636), showing the whole of Persia with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.

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1 volume (635 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 637; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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