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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [194v] (393/504)
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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29S
S AIM-MIL—Kerind.
(Sar-i-Milleh, the top of the pass).
A village of Western Kermanshah a short distance from the western
end of the plain of Kerind, 15 miles from that village. It numbers 4 0
houses. It is not very far from Mian Tak.
The road from Sar-i-pol-i-Zohab to Kerind passes through this village,
'which was anciently named Tun There is the ruin of a small fort heie
situated on the edge of a plateau.
S AR-I-P 0 L-I-SIA H —D u ru-Faraman.
A village of the Duru-Faraman district. Malyafc Krs, 330-778 dinars
cash and Kh. 19-44 08 grain.
SAR-I-POL-IZOH AB—Zohab.
Commonly known as Sar-i-p d or Sarpol. A village situated at the
south-east corner of the famous fertile plain of Zohab. It-contains about
50 houses and a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
The road here crossing the river bends south-east to Kerind. It is 85
miles from Kermanshah and about 29 from Kerind. There is a massive
stone bridge here over the Holvan, whence the name of the village (i.e.
the head of the Zohab bridge). There is a telegraph office here and a
post-office relay of two horses. The Bala-Khaneh of the post-office
house is the besr place to put up at, unless one has letters of recommonda.
tion for the telegraph clerk in charge.
The Susmams are to be found here in winter. They pay 400
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
to the Crovernor of Sar-i-pol.
The other side of the river is the Bishiveh plain which is part of tha
Kerind district. 1 d
“ 100 inhabitants. Cultivation : wheat, daimi.” (Post Master, Sar-i^pol.)
Sau-i-Pol-i-Zohab or Sar-i-Pol —
Ancient Khalman.
Sir H. Rawlinson says:
The real site of Ilolva
• ^ . 'in, one of the
primeval cities of the world, was at Sar-i-pol-i-Zohab, ei>ht miles south'of
the present town, this is the Caiah of Asshur and the Halah of the Israeli,
tish captivity (for description and account of Israelitish captivity see
Gemsis X, % to 12 2nd Kings XVII, 6 to 11. 1st Chronicles X, 26. fB V
701-715) ) It gave to the sUrrouiiding districts the name of Chaloni'tis’
The etymological identity is I believe the last claim which Holwan possess
es to be considered the representative of Calah of Asshur but for its
veiification as the scene of the captivity (Samaritan), there are manv other
curious and powerful reasons. We find in Strabo that this region alonir
the skirts of the Zagros was sometimes adjudged to Media, and sometimes
to Assyria and we are thus able to explain the dominion of Shalmaneser the.
Assyrian King over the cities of the Medes. Some of the Christian Arabs
in their histones directly translate the Halah of the captivity by Holvan
Jewish traditions abound in this part of the country, and David is still
regarded by the tnbes as their great tutelar prophet. . . . There can ha
no question I must observe, about Sar-i-pol-i-Zohab being the real site of
Holvan. The oriental itineraries and geographical notices are quite
decisive upoa this pouit ; the rums themselves bear certain evidence/ and
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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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