'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z'

Title:

'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z'

Date:

1918/1918

Description:

Abstract: The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia(Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf.The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia, administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Gazetteers

Geographic region:

Persia

Publisher:

Publisher: Government Monotype Press, Simla, publishers

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100025472827.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100025472827.0x000001_en
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2

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