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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [482r] (968/1278)
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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KAF—KAH
475'
KAFTAR KHAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in Kir man, two marches from the town of that name, on
the Yazd road, and about 20 miles east of Bahramabad.—(E%er.)
KAGUR (?)— Lat. 28° 18' 40" ; Long. 51° 17' 30" Elev.
A village on the coast of Fars.— {Bruchs.)
KAHA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A miserable group of huts on a stony hillside in Fars, on a road between
Furg and Saidabad beyond Dehistan.—(Pmweer’s Correspondent.)
KAHIZ, or KAIZ, vide QAHlZ. , \
KAHNA—
A small village of. 130 houses, with a fort, among date-groves and cultiva
tion. Supplies in small quantities available. Water from qandts.—{Stack
1881 , Brazier-Creagh, 1894.)
KAHNU (1)— Lat. Long. Elev. >
A village, one mile west of Yazd.— {Kinneir—Abbott.)
KAHNU (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A large flourishing village in Kirman, 16 miles north-west of Kirman
on the road to Zarand.—-(JU/a«, 1899.)
KAHRISTAN-Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Lar, on the road from the east to Bandar ’Abbas.—(Chesney.)
KAHUNAK, or KAUNAK— Lat. 32° 16' N. ; Long. 48° 39' E. ; Elev. 600'.
A village in the Dizful district of Northern ’Arabistan situated about
16 miles south-east of Dizful and 22 miles north-west of Shushtar. It
is the ordinary halting-place for travellers between these two towns.
Kahiinak stands on the left bank of the stream of the same name, which
is an affluent of the Ab-i-Diz. The bed of the Ab-i-Kahunak, at the village,
is usually a dry, or nearly dry, stretch of shingle about a mile across!
After moderate rain, however, there is a good flow of water in several
distinct channels, and heavy rain renders it impassable for short periods.
The village consists of about 100 mud houses. It is not surrounded by a
wall as are most of the villages of- the Dizful district. A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
stands about 200 yards north of the village. It is a mud-walled enclosure,
but some of the interior buildings are of brick, and there are a few small
lodgings for better class travellers in a bdldhhdneh. This building, along
with the right to maintain 2 shops in the village, is held on lease by
a private individual, who pays 50 tumdns yearly to the owner of the caravan
serai and 2 tumdns to the Kadkhuda of Kahunak.
The only defences of the village are a small mud tower, with a timber
roof, just outside it on the Dizful side, and a couple of two-stoned buildings
in the town, which show a few loopholes.
The inhabitants are Bakhtlaris and a few Dizfulis, and there is one
shopkeeper from Shushtar. The fighting strength fluctuates. At best
- there are but 10 to 12 rifles and, in September 1904, when an attack by
DL akwand Lur was expected, the place was almost deserted. -
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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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