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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [221r] (446/504)
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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351
Su&manr.—This tribe is now reduced to some 12 families, who are found
at Sar-i-Pol in winter and who in summer move about the plain of Dinavar.
They have an artificial language of their own.
Sar-i Pol-i-Zohab (the head of the Zohab bridge) usually known as Sar-i-
Pol.—A village of 60 houses, with a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
on the right bank o£ the
Halwan, 29 miles from Kerind. There is a telegraph office here.
Sheikh an. —A village 20 miles north of Zohab. It is compo-ed of three
or four hamlets, the most important one being situated at the mouth of a
mountain gorge. The others are higher up in the mountain. Its name is
derived from two Sunni saints whose tombs are here (these, surmounted by
their white cupolas and embosomed in orchards, form a very picturesque object).
Sheikhan numbers all told, 100 houses. Close by are some ancient sculptures.
Firan y Yaran and Zardeh. —In the mountain? to the north of the road to
Zohab.
Yaran — Population, Jaffs; religion, Sunni; maliyat, 70
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
.
Zardeh. —population, Aliuliahi; language, Kandulei.
Baba Yadgar-i-Russein, one hour fromZiideh. Imamzadeh, two houses.
There are always many pilgrims and people in refuge here. Elevation
1,405’35 metres.
Kalleh Sabzi. —Pers’an frontier post on the road between Kasr-i-Shirin
and Khanikio numbers about lU houses, under the son of Shir Khan, Samsam-
ul-Mamalek.
Kasr-i-Shirin -^Latitude 34° 30' 6 V N. Elevation 2,130 feet (Pozario).—*
A village situated on the light bank rf the Hulwan river. It has some 100
houses and bazaar with 30 shops. Provisions are plentiful, Here are a
telegraph office and a cqst un-house. The place of late years has been greatly
improved. The Petroleum Company, who are working at 3 farsakhs
. distance, have had houses built for their staff in Kasr-i-Shirin. The Govern
ment House is built of stone and on a hill to the south-west of the town and
is meant as a stronghold in case of attack. Kasr-i-Shirin is 103 miles distant
from Kermaushah.
Zohab. —Latitude 34° 35' 22 v N —A small v llage of some 30 houses
situated on the ruins of an extensive town. Of this place Sir H. Rawlinson
writing some 50 years ago said : ‘‘the town of Zohab was built 100 years ago
by a Turkish
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, and the Government continued to be hereditary in his
family till the conquest of the Pashalik by the Persians, The capital was
surrounded by a mud wall, and may have at first contained about 1,000 houses.
Emm its frontier position it has been exposed to constant spoliation in the
wars between Turkey and Persia, and is now a mass of ruins with scarcely 200
inhabited houses/’
The Persians say that during the war under Mohammed AH M rza Zohab
furnished to the Turks 1,0 0 horsemen clad in chain armour.
Of the district of Zohab Pawlison said : “It is bounded on the north
west by the course of the Piver Dial i, on the east bv the mountains, and on the
sooth by the stream of Halwan. It formed one of the 10 pashaliks dependent
upon Bagdad until about 60 years ago, when Muhammed Ali Mirza, prince of
Kermanshah, annexed it to the Crown of Persia. By the treaty concluded
between Persia and the Porte in 1823 it was stipulated that the districts
acquired by either party during the war should be respectively surrendered 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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