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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [169r] (342/504)
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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247
For business or to evade proper punishment due to crimes committed in one
or the other country. All attempts to levy taxes, enforce conscription, and
arrest offenders are thwarted by a hasty migration to Persia or Turkey as
the case may be. The military cordon stationed along the line, that ought,
if efficiently organised, to assist Government in enforcing order and obe
dience, is totally useless for either, while the jealousies and quarrels invari
ably existing between the civil and military authorities thwart any well
devised action of the former.
The majority of the sedentary Kurds of Ardalan and Kermanshah who
have long been settled in villages, have completely abandoned both the
national instincts and the national dress (except the women) and are not at
first sight to be mistaken from Persians.”
KURETU—Zohab.
Aziz Khan Bajilan is posted at this village with 100 horsemen as a
protection against the inroads of the Jail's.
Aziz Khan is said to derive 700
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
per annum from his villages.
There is a direct road from here to Kasr-i-Shirin, but no villages are met.
The river which passes near Kuretu is also called Kuretu and has its
source at farsakhs from Zohabat a spot called Sarab-Seyyed-Sadik. The
banks of this river for some miles are covered with red oleanda.
« Kuretu is also known as Abady Aziz Khan, 300 inhabitants : cultivation :
wheat and barley .--(Post-Master, Sar-i-pol)
In the Revenue Department list of villages, etc., of the District of Zohab,
the sub-district of Kuretu is mentioned as being composed of 11 vil
lages.
KURETU RUD—
The river which passes by Knretu bears the same name and rises
at H farsakhs from Zohab at a spot called Sarah-Seyyed Sadik. This river
joins the Dyala.
KURTAWI BALA—Dinavar.
A village of the Dinavar district.
KURTAWI SUPLA—Dinavar.
A village of the Dinavar district.
kushih tappish—
“A mound on the road from Ramadan to Kangavar, miles from the
latter.”— (Taylor.)
KUZEHKERAN or PIRUZABAD—Kuliai.
A village of the Kuliai district belonging to Hajji Ah Akbar. See
Kuliai.
KUTKUTI— Kalhors.
A sub-division of Kalhors. According to the Revenue book they possess
Mbs of Khwaratevih
Leleux says their chief is Tamar Khan and that they are a sub-division
of the Shiani branch of Kalhors.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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