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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [616v] (1237/1278)
The record is made up of 1 volume (635 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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610
KTJL—KUL
KULDUM—
A hamlet in the Kirman, situated on a stream which always contains
water, and surrounded by date palms, 94 miles from Saidabad, on the road
to Bandar ’Abbas.— (Galindo, November 1888.)
KULIKUN (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Khuzistan standing at the foot of the hills, a little way off
the road from Dizful to Shushtar. A great many of the inhabitants were
carried off by the plague.— (Robertson.)
KUL-I-MABD— vide PUL-I-MURD.
KULLARIS— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,830'.
A small village, about 15| miles from Imamzadeh Isma’il towards
Isfahan. It is on a shallow stream, 10 feet wide, flowing into the Zindeh
Rud.— (Bell, 1884.)
KULMAT— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village about f of a mile north of the Bakhtiari caravan road, on
the 10th stage from Isfahan, about 4 miles east of Pul-i-Shatu. It consists
of 20 houses of Dina run Bakhtiari, situated in a rocky gorge running down
from the Mian Dizan mountain to Dehadari, 7 miles west of Deh Diz. There
is an oak forest and some corn land around. Water is obtained from the
deep ravine which runs south-west past Rikat to the Karun river, and
which contains some groves of pomegranates. The village is deserted
from May to September.— (Burton, 1903 — Morton, 1905 — Arbuthnot, 1905 —
Lorimer, 1906.)
KULPA ZANUM (Pass) — Lat. Long. Elev. 3,600'.
A pass in Ears, 98 miles from Bushire, on the road to Firuzabad. At the
entrance to the pass are a ruined
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, a spring of excellent water,
and a stream affording drinking water for animals. The ground is much
broken and not suitable for encamping. Firewood is obtainable in small
quantities. There are no inhabitants near. The road through the pass
is narrow, leading over great boulders of rock, difficult throughout and
impassable for field guns ; in places there is barely room for the one mule to
pass. The defile is half a mile long, and the road emerges from the defile
along high ground for one mile before beginning to descend. The descent
on the eastern side presents no difficulties.— (Stotherd, 1893.)
KULUL— Lat. 28° 43' N. ; Long. 51° 17' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Fars, 1 mile north of Chah ’All on
the west side of the Khurmuj plain. It contains 40 houses inhabited by
Tangistanis who grow wheat, barley and dates, and own some camels and
donkeys.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
KULUM KHlS— Lat. 32° 25' N.; Long. 51° 26' E. ; Elev. 5,300'.
A village of 200 houses on the right bank of the Zindeh Rud : opposite
is the village of Riz, the river is here crossed by the road from Chigha-Khur
to Isfahan ; the main stream in autumn being 30 yards wide and girth deep.
There are a number of irrigation channels and much cultivation on either
bank. It has many poplar chindr, willow and fruits trees : there are
several wells on the south side of the village.— (Burton.)
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The item is Volume III, Part I: A to K of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1924).
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 historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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 636), 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.
Printed at the Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
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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 637; 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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