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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [226v] (457/504)
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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359
From Kurkur to Haftashian the distance is said to be 4 farsakhs fch * •
to say from the spot where the Mahidasht-Harunabad road passes ^thr^ i?
Kurkur to Haftashian, the distance is 4 farsakhs.
The Kuh-i-Lalaban which ends at the Mahidasht-Harunabad road ‘
continued by the Gardaneh Kurkur which extends up to Gahwari 8
changing its name into Milleli-Meikhan (length 2 farshakhs), then int*
Kal-i-Kazi (length ^ farsakh) and finally into Milleh-Kabud, this last
mountain ending at Gahwareh.
Gahwareh, which is at 6 farsakhs from Mahidasht, is the chief village of
the Guran district and is inhabited by Gurans,
The cultivation of Gahwarreh is tobacco and grain.
The main road to Mahidasht crosses the plain at Mahidasht forming an
angle of about 110° with the mountains which border the plain.
The first village met in the plain of Mahidasht is Kumisheh situated at
the foot of the mountain at 2 small farsakhs from the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
of
Mahidasht. Kumisheh belongs to Seyyed Abul-Gassem and numbers
about 90 houses. Cultivation : grain.
A small stream has its source in this village and joins the Merik river.
In the small pass £ farsakh after leaving the Mahidasht plain on the
wayto Harunabad onthe right is Chaharzabar sufla, which numbers 30'
houses. In the pass quite near its end, flows the torrent of Chaharzabad
which has 7 or 8 mills on its banks and which joins the Merik.
The pass of Chaharzabar forms a military position of great strength and
easily defensible. Its length is 1 farsakh.
On leaving the pass one finds on the right the village of Chaharzahar
Ulia, numbering about 10 houses of very poor villagers : only two families
till the soil. The inhabitants are the Chaharzabari branch of Kalkor,
their Katkhoda is Amin.
At half a farsakh between the two villages of Chaharzabar, is the
village Shah-Pasend, 7 bouses, Katkhoda Kahdar, inhabitants Lekks.
Cultivation: grain.
The Kurkur and Lalaban ranges of mountains are formed of three parallel
ranges ; the first range borders the Mahidasht plain at about 1 farsakh
from the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
. The second and third ranges follow one another
and are distant H farsakhs from the first range. The pass ends at?
farsakh from the village of Chaharzabar Sufla.
The pass has the shape of two funnels joined by the wide side, on
leaving the pass there is a path which leaves the main road and is followed
by foot-travellers. It passes by Larini and thence goes on to Harunabad.
It is said to be one farsakh shorter than the main road.
On leaving the Gardaneh Chaharzabar the main route forms a slight
curve northwards and then strikes towards the plain of Zebiri to the south
forming an angle of about 120° with the Kuh-i-Lalaban.
The plain of Zebiri is limited on one side by the Kuh-i-Lalaban and by
the Kuh-i-Kurkur, and on the opposite side by the Kuh-i-Darkbur and
Nal-Shekan. This plain is the shape of an egg, the mountains limiting
it joining in the shape of an oval. The plain is terminated to the east by
the junction of the Sbian and Ali-Ber mountains.
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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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