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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [622r] (1248/1278)
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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KUR-^KUR
615
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m blue sheets over shelving rocks or boiling in deep pools, is a perpetual
pleasure to the senses. An attempt was made by Shah 3 Abbas to turn the
Kurand into the Zindeh Rud.— (Stack.)
KURANl—
One of the small group of Chehar Banicheh tribe of Illats, comprising
the Kurani or Kurunf, i.e., Bunrul Zangineh, Ardashir and Vanda. The
two former are Lak tribes living in north-west Fars.— (Andreas.)
KURASHEH— Lat. 31° 46' N. ; Long. 54° 11' E. ; Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd, 4f miles west of Taft. It is a long and
straggling village of some 200 houses, with numerous gardens. There
is a considerable amount of cultivation and trees. Water is obtainable.
(Vaughan, 1891.)
KURBAL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A district of the province of Ears, 32 miles east of Shiraz, at the south
west corner of Lake Niriz. It possesses about 100 villages and hamlets, most
of them dependent on the water obtained from the Kur by means of h hands
or dams, thrown across it. Most of the water in the Band Amir river is
exhausted before it reaches lake Niriz on account of the numerous irrigation
channels in this district, which is one of th:s most fertile in the country,
producing abundance of rice, barley, wheat, tobacco and some cotton.
The cultivation of rice in this plain is inconceivably great, and it is admit
ted to be by far the richest and cheapest in the Persian Empire. The
greatest part of the wine, known by the name of Shiraz wine, is made
here. It extends east and west from Pul-i-Talkh to Band Amir, about 40
miles and north and south about 15 miles. Estimated population about
10,000.— (K. Abbott — Pottinger.)
KURBEH —vide GURBEH.
. KURDS—
See article on Luristan.
KURD ’ALIWAND—
Name of a tribe in Luristan (q.v.).
KURD AVAN— Lat. 28° 9' N.; Long. 51° 21' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, on the right bank of the Mund
river and 2 miles from its mouth. It contains 100 houses of Hajian, Ruuseh,
Shaikhha and Mullaha.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
KURDEH— Lat. 27° 47' ; Long. 54° 28' E ; Elev.
A village in Laristan situated about 1 mile to the west of the Lar-i-Darab
road, 12 miles from the former place.
It consists of about 20 houses with a well of good water, and on a hill
overlooking the village are the ruins of a small fort.
Two or 3 miles to the west of the village are extensive date-groves, while
some 2 miles to the north-east, on the side of the main caravan track,
stands a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
with two large hauzes of good water. From the'
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
a large plain, covered with wheat, stretches westward ; the
drainage being also in that direction.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
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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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