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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [494r] (992/1278)
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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KAL—KAL
487
taken from the torrent and united with the most tenacious cement.—
(Selby — Layard — Schindler.)
KALEH-I-DUKHTAR (2)— Lat. 28° 53' N. ; Long. 52° 33' E. ; Elev.
The ruins of an old citadel in Ears in the gorge of Tang Ab, north of
Firuzabad. It formed the centre of a line of watch-towers along the eastern
mountain wall of the gorge. The rocks show distinct traces of the old
roads which led up to the top, remains of the Sassanian period.—-(i^oss—
Stoltze.)
KALEH-I-FlRUZABAD— Lat. 28° 52' N. ; Long. 52° 31' E. ; Elev.
Some ruins in Fars, 2 miles west-north-west of the town of Firuzabad,
evidently those of a considerable town, its ditch and embankments forming
a wide circle, the diameter of which may be about a mile. The ditch is
40 or 50 paces wide. In the centre of the area stands a tall, solid, square
tower composed of rough stone masonry, 60 or 70 feet high.— (vide Firuz
abad.)— (Kinneir — Abbott.)
KALEH-I-GAV—
A mountain in Kirman, standing on the north-east of the Bardslr
plain, about 35 miles south-west of Kirman.— (Dobbs, 1902.)
KALEH-I-GILl— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mud fort, a mile east of Karlan, in the Bldshahr district of Lar, built
when Karim Khan was reigning in Shiraz (1870). It is a square earthwork,
with a side of 120 yards, and has a tower every twelve yards.— (Stack.)
KALEH-I-HAIDAR KHAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
Also called Zagheh (q.v.), a village in Laristan, the third halting-place
from Burujird on the road to Khurramabad, 24J miles from the latter.
It is situated at the foot of the pass of the same name.— (Schindler.)
KALEH-I-HAJI MUNAIM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A desert village in Northern ’Arabistan situated on the river Gargar,
2 miles above Shalall.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
KALEH-I-JABIR, vide KALEH-I-DEH BAR.
K ALEH-I- J AN GI V AN —Lat. Long. Elev.
A fort near Dizful in Khuzistan.— (War Office Report on Persia, Part I,
Route 291.)
KALEH-I-KAH— Lat. Long. Elev. 3,070'.
A halting-place in Laristan, 76 miles north-west of Bandar ’Abbas, on the
road to Yazd. It is situated in the bed of a ravine, and has no habitations.
— (Galindo, November 1888.)
KALEH-I-QAZl —Lat. Long. Elev.
The name of a conical hill in the Chalavar range; seen on the left of the
Akhureh valley, near Khulgan, on the road from Isfahan to Burujird.
(Schindler.)
KALEH-I-KHAN MUHAMMAD! (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A fort in Kirman, 19| miles from Daulatabad, on the road from thence
to Saldabad.— (Abbott.)
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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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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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