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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [‎188r] (380/504)

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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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PIR-SALMAN—Kuliai.
A village of the Kuliai district belonging to Begler Beg i.* See Kuliai.
PIR-SARAB—Khodabendelu.
A village of the Khodabendelu Khans.
fths of it belong to Yekil ed Dowleh.
It is divided in three settlements or hamlets : Pir-Sarab, Azizabad and
Husseinabad. Cultivation : grain, opium, garden crops. The rent of
f ths amounts to 400 Tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. cash and 130 Kharvars grain per annum.
The inhabitants are Khodabendelus.
PI R-S H A MS-ALI—Assadabad.
A village of the Assadabad district.
POL-I-DOKHTAR-I-KURD—
A bridge on the Ab-i-Gangir between Pol-i-Suruf-Shah and Tang-i-
Snotor Gardan.
POL-I-DOTA KOE—
(The bridge of the 2 children.) At two kilometres from Kerevasheken
on the road thence to Mendali, on the Gilan-Mendali road.
This and the Pol-i-Dakhtar-i-Kurd are one and the same bridge.
POL-I-KARASU ok POL-I-SHAH—
This bridge consists of 6 arches and is very strongly built and kept in
good condition. The whole structure is of burnt bricks. It was built by
a certain Sheikh Ali Khan, once Prime Minister under one of the Saffavi
Monarchs and an ancestor of the present Zahir-ul-Mulk. The bridge is on
the highway between Kermanshah and Bisutun at 1 farsakh from the
former and five from the latter. Close by are the ruins of a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
built by the same Sheikh Ali Khan, as whakf for pilgrims. The Pol-i-
Karasu furnishes in winter the only passage over the Karasu for many
miles. J
POL-I-KHODA—
At the point of the junction of the Ab-i-Direh with the Holvan. It is
fP anne d h Y # a natural arch of rock, which is called in consequence
Pol-i-Khoda (Cod^s bridge).
POL-I-KHOSROW.
A little to the east of the villa and garden of Vekilieh is a strongly
built bridge, of which there only remains the lower part of the piers, which
is sldl mtact. The superstructure is all that is required to afford a passage
much needed at this spot in winter. What remains of the old work leaves
one the impression of very good masonry and is undoubtedly Sassauian.
It we admit that Kermanshah was formerly quite near Tak-i-Bostan, thia
bridge was then on the road from the town to Kasr-i-Shinn,
POL-I-SURUF KHAN
-.A b ji d ? e 011 the Ab -i-Gangir between Pol-i-Dokhtar-i-Kurd and Kaleh
iNala Seal Khana.— (See Survey Department Map.)
POL-I-ZO H AB—
A b ™% e over the Holvan near the village of Sar-i-pol-i Zohab. It
afioius the only passage over the Holvan for many miles, in winter.

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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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