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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎522v] (1049/1278)

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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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6 KAR—KAR
walls of rock some 2,000 feet high. With a final bend at right angles, it
points due east for a few miles and reaches the hamlet of Du Pulan (5,000
feet) after a total run of 105 miles. It passes out of the narrow, deep and
gloomy gorge, under a brick bridge of a single arch, 12 yards span and with
bad approaches, and is joined a few hundred yards below this bridge by
another considerable affluent. This is the Ab-i-Shabz Kuh, which also rushes
down past Naghan, through a great rift of the Tang-i-Siah. This stream is
bridged by a pile and wicker structure opposite the village of Du Pulan and
shortly before it reaches the Karun. The river now assumes a southerly
course for a few miles, but later changing to south-west, it strikes through
between the Kuh-i-Sard Ab on the right and the Kuh-i-Sabz Kuh on the left.
At 115 miles the walls of the latter overhang it precipitously, and later, the
Kuh-i-Buz Man closing in on the right bank, the river enters a defile known
as the Tang-i-Agha. Continuing its course between these cliff walls, it makes
another acute bend at 135 miles in a west by south-west direction ; and passes
the hamlets of Sunak on the right at 142 miles and Baghak (3,600 feet),
at 145 miles on the left. A small stream runs into it near the latter village.
At 152 miles it receives the Ab-i-Hilisat from the north-west and 1 mile
lower down the Ab-i-Rig from the south-west. Bending now slightly north
of west it winds its way through deep valleys, until at 166 miles it receives
one of its largest tributaries in the Ab-i-Bazuft, a little below the hamlet
of Charka. The Kuh-i-Mazarim here checks its course and makes it rather
conform to that of its latest feeder ; the direction now becoming almost due
south to 170 miles. From here the river makes a bend again to north of
west to 175 miles, where a small stream joins it from the Kuh-i-Shapir on
the right. Then flowing south-west past Sir-i-Chal on the left bank, it
receives a considerable addition from the Ab-i-Lurdigan, at 181 miles, from
the south-east. This stream is joined by the Ab-i-Burs shortly before it runs
into the Karun, and together they form a good-sized river. At this point
the river makes a bend again to a little north of west and with many windings
reaches the village of Shapir at 188 miles. Continuing now due north-west
and flanked by the mighty Mangasht range on the left and the lesser
ranges of the Kuh-Sawa, Qalandaran and Banistan on the right, it
passes two ferries ; the first established a little below the Deh-i-Darkashi
at 205 miles and the second 1| miles lower down. At 209 miles a stream
draining the Diz valley, the Ab-i-Kukat, flows into it from the right.
From this point the river makes some sharp zigzags to clear the spurs
of the Zir-i-Kuh or Pa Kuh on the left ; and at 215 miles flows under the
Pul-i-Gudar-i-Balutak (2,900 feet) at a bend which here makes its course
north-east. For a specification of this bridge, the materials for which
Messrs. Lynch Brothers brought out from Europe for the Bakhiari
caravan route, vide this Gazetteer—Shalu (Pul-i-). After a short stretch
the river makes a bend due north and then gradually changes its direction
to north-west. It winds through deep gorges and ravines between the
great Kuh-i-Safid on the right and Kuh-i-Razandan on the left. At 228
miles it passes the site of an old log bridge, while a few miles farther on
it passes through a deep rift below the Kuh-i-Safid.
At 235 miles the river may be said to pass beyond any accurate descrip
tive knowledge. We know that it flows north-west beihind the Kub-i-

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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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