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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎354r] (712/1278)

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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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GAN-GAN
317
20 paces wide, and after rain attains a depth of some 12 feet. A little
below the halting-place are the remains of a bridge by help of which the
river, if elsewhere too high, may sometimes be forded.— {Schindler.)
GANDUMAN (1)—
A Mahal of the Isfahan province, west of Rar ; principal villages : Gandu-
man, Buriijan, Safld Dasht, BuldajI, Rivasjan. The Ganduman district
ends near Chigha-Khfir, in the Bakhtiarl country, and extends south of the
Dinaran hills on the frontier of Ears.— {Schindler.)
GANDUMAN (2)— Lat. 31° 52' N. ; Long. 51° 19' E.
A village in the Chehar Mahal district of the Bakhtiarl country, about
12 miles east of the Chigha-Khur valley. It is watered by springs forming
a stream about 6 feet wide.— {Sawyer, 1890.)
GANDUMKAR or GANDUM-KAL— Lat. 31° 48' N. ; Long. 50° 50' E.
A valley and mountain in the Bakhtiari country, the latter being a spur
of the Kuh-i-Sard Ab. The Bakhtiari caravan road, on its 7th stage from
Isfahan, traverses the former, and crosses the latter between miles 112 and
lined with willows, a anas and oaks. Many hundreds of sheep and goats
are met with in summer in and around the valley. The slopes of the moun
tains are stony and covered with small oaks and other scrub and are alive
with grey partridges in the early spring. The crests of the hills rise about
200 feet above the valley and form something of a circle. The surface of
the road over the pass is, on the wiiole, good. The lower part of the Tang-i-
Gandum-Kar is a narrow gorge between perpendicular heights. The
stream, wLich is here perennial, finds its way down the Tang-i-Hazar Jarrb
and emerges close above the Sarkhun caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). . Farther up the stream
the gorge gives w r ay to a wide open basin. Up to the point where it reaches
the hills which head the valley and basin, the ascent is gentle and the going
good. It then becomes steep and stony and finally ascends up a steep hill
in rivetted zigzags. The face of the hill is of loose stones and earth. The
crest is the Garden-i-Gandum-Kar. It presents no serious obstacle to pack
transport. There is a good camping-ground at Gandum-Kar, but no supplies
at hand except fuel and water.— {Burton, 1904 — Arhuthnot, 1905 — Larimer,
1906.)
GANDUM ZAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small hamlet in Ears, 9| miles from Riz on the road to Lar, consisting
of a small mud and stone fort and about 50 mat houses, surrounded by
fields of wheat and barley.— {Butcher, March 1888.)
GANGAL (Birkeh)—
A place in the Lingeh district {q.v.).
GANJAGAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A spot probably in the Shulistan district of Ears, but perhaps included
in the Behbehan province ; it is situated 52 miles south-east of Behbehan
town on the road thence to Shiraz. There is a small stream of good water
122. The valley is stony and watered by a good stream from a large spring,

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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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