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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎70v] (145/504)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (249 folios). It was created in 1907. 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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CHESHMEH SHAH PAS AND—
See SHI RYAN AND.
CHESHMEH SEFID or KANI C HARM I.—Duru-Faraman.
A village of the Duru-Faraman district^ in the hilld between Sangbal and
Sarah Kahrar.
CHESHMEH SULEIHA—
A mountain, somewhere between Sar-Firuzabad and Huleilaru
CHESHMEH SURKH—
A village of the Osmanavands’ jeilaks.
CHOM-I-BIWAN1J.—
A small stream which rises in the plain of Biwanij. It is one of the
upper branches of the Zimkam Rud.
CHOM-I-ZARISHK—
A tributary of the Ab-hSirvan.
CHOM NUZEH—
A stream which joins the Seimerreh near the village of Chom Nuzeh,
just opposite the Kuh-i-Gala.
CHOM NUZEH—
A village inhabited in winter by Balavands. It is on the right bank
of the Seimerreh, and gets its water-supply from the Chom Nuzeh stream.
138. CHOM-TUI—
A camping ground of the Balavands in the Chom Tui valley. There
is here a very picturesque thatched mill.
CHOM TUI—
A stream which has its source a short distance east of Sarah Firuzabad.
It waters the valley of Chom Tui, between the Milleh-Kal and the Sabzemu
mountains, and joins the Seimerreh after a course of from 3 to 4 farsakhs.
Chom Tui rises a short distance east of the spring of the Ab-i-Merek, which
Hows in the opposite direction.
Mr. De Morgan says, speaking of the Tueh Rud (Chom Tui), that it is
a mere torrent which has its rise in the mountains to the east of Kerman-
shah. After a succession of waterfalls it joins the Gamasiab at the further
end of the Tang-i-Gala.
CHUPANKERA or SHUANKERA.—Kalhors.
" A small sub-section of the tribe of Kalhors, who inhabit the country
reaching from Mendali, on the Turkish frontier, to the borders of Kasr-i-
Shmn in the Kermanshah province. The Chupankera, together with the
Cheliehi, number about 100 families/-’— [Flowden).
The Shuankera Chellehi are part of the Ehaleddi branch of Kalhors.
1 hey are shepherds, and number 200 houses under their Chief Karim.
“ They are part of the Kazem Khani, their Katkhoda is Shir Mohammed.”

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Gazetteer of the province of Kermanshah, Persia [Iran], compiled by Hyacinth Louis Rabino, Vice-Consul at Resht [Rasht] at the time of the gazetteer’s publication in 1907, and who had been Acting Consul at Kermanshah during 1904 and 1905. The gazetteer, which is marked for official use only, was issued by the Division of the Chief of the Staff of the Government of India, and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla [Shimla]. At the front of the volume is an introduction by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, Acting Quartermaster General for Intelligence, dated 22 March 1907, and a preface by the author, dated 24 June 1904, with notes on the transliteration system used (folios 4-5).

The gazetteer includes five appendices, numbered I to V, as follows:

  • appendix I, a translation from the French original of a description of the road from Kermanshah to Mendali [Mandalī], via Harunabad [Eslāmābād-e Gharb] and Gilan [Sarāb-e Gīlān], as recorded in a journal by Leon Leleux, Inspector General of Customs at Kermanshah;
  • II, a translation from the Persian original of a description of the villages in the immediate vicinity of the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of Mahidasht, written by the Mirza of Customs at Mahidasht;
  • III, a vocabulary of terms;
  • IV, a list of the principal roads from Baghdad to Teheran via Kermanshah, with distances given in miles and farsakhs;
  • V, a list of the notables of Kermanshah.

The gazetteer contains extensive extracts from a range of sources, including: an earlier, unspecified gazetteer, published in 1885; various works on Persia by British Government officials (including Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, the Viceroy of India George Nathaniel Curzon, Captain George Campbell Napier); published works by a number of scholars and explorers of Persia (notably Trevor Chichele Plowden, Jacques De Morgan, Henry James Whigham, and James Baillie Fraser); reports from other sources, including Leleux, and the Mirza of Customs at Mahidasht.

Some of the appendices’ pages appear to have been mixed up. Included among them are: a genealogical table of the princes of Kermanshah (f 239); and hierarchical tables listing the chiefs of the principal tribes of the province of Kermanshah (ff 244-245).

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1 volume (249 folios)
Arrangement

The gazetteer’s entries are arranged alphabetically. An index at the front of the volume (folios 6-45) lists entries alphabetically, taking into account variations in the spelling of names. This index refers to the volume’s original pagination sequence.

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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 250; 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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