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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎608r] (1220/1278)

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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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KUH—KUH
601
KUH-I-NAK RUE— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mountain in Ears, passed at the 90th mile on the route from Shiraz to
Darab.—( War Office Report on Persia, Part II, Route 205.)
KUH-I-N’AL SHIKANDEH (1)— Lat. Long. Elev. 5,900'.
A pass in Khuzistan traversed between Shah-in-Shah and Chimishk
on the road from Burujird to Dizful.— {Schindler.) See also Na’l Shikan.
KUH-I-N’AL SHIKAN DEH (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A hill close to Harunabad in Kirmanshah. It is composed entirely of
white marble, and derives its name from the destruction it does to horses
hoofs.— {Rozario.)
KUH-I-NAMAK (1)— Lat, Long. Elev. 4,000'.
A mountain of the maritime range of Ears, and the continuation of the
same on the south of the Mund gap. It is of sandstone below, and towards
the summit consists largely of salt, which is visible from afar as glistening
streaks of white or grey.'— {Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
KUH-I-NAMAK (2) — Lat. Long. Elev.
A hill in Ears, about 10 miles west of Darab and north of the road thence
to Fasa. It appears to consist of nothing but fine salt. Its variegated
colours together with its numerous sharp pinnacles standing out against the
dark background formed by the hills beyond, make it a remarkable land
mark.— {Preece, 1884.)
KUH-I-NAMAK-I-ANGURU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mass of hills, about 8 miles north of Gachin. The strata curve up from
all sides and appear to be level at the summit ; the centre is occupied by
a depression, partially filled by a mass of greyish rock tinged with red.
There is no sign of a gap through which the Shur river could flow and
it is probable that the latter flows round the east end of the hill.— {Wilson
and Cruickshank, 1907.)
KUH-I-NISAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
Name of the highest part of a range stretching apparently from north
east to south-west of Farrashband, Ears. St. John’s map makes it ter
minate in a southerly direction, about due west of that place {vide Durand’s
Report of a Tour in Ears, 1878). The lesser range above Farrashband
is about 3,200 feet high.— {Durand.)
The summit of the pass over this wide and broken range is reached 9
miles after leaving the plain of Farrashband on the road from that place
toKalimeh. There are slight traces of the road made by the Persian Army
in 1856-57.— {St. John.)
KUH-I-NU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range of hills in Kirmanshah, forming the side or rim of the crater-like
valley of Pa-i-Taq, the entrance of which is from the Bishiveh plain and
the exit by the Taq-i-Gira.— {T. C. Plowden.)
KUH-I-PARRA CHINARA— Of. Photos, by Captain Crookshank.

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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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