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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [255v] (515/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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been aware of the intentions of the Kurds, they allowed themselves to
be surprised, and made but slight resistance. The Patriarch only
thought of his own safety and ran away, leaving his mother and bro
thers to be butchered, with thousands of other Nestorians, in the cruellest
manner.
The smoke of the burning villages eddied up over the Snowy
Mountains, and the screams of injured women were mingled with the
shouts of the victorious Kurds. Neither the helplessness of age, nor
the innocence of childhood, found any mercy. Almost half the
Tiarl fell in the massacre. Part of the survivors fled to Persia : many
thousands remained as prisoners in the hands of the Kurds. The
village of Sespatoi was the only place that offered a heroic and a des
perate resistance, and all, save five or six who escaped into the steepest
fastnesses, fell defending themselves.
When nothing more remained to be destroyed, the murderers and
plunderers retired with their captives and booty, many of the boys
being circumcised and forcibly converted to Islam.
Thus this remarkable Alpine republic came to an end, and it is not
probable it will ever recover, for the Nestorians will never lose the
memory of their awful defeat or the Kurds of their triumph.
Dr. Grant estimates the whole of the Kaldani nation, Catholic and
Nestorian, in Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey at about 200,000 souls.
Dr. Grant says the word Kaldani is usually applied to the Catholics
of this tribe, while the others are called Nestorians. This is contrary
to Colonel ShiePs opinion, who says the whole nation is called Kaldani
and the divisions are Nestorian and Catholic. [Wagner — Shiel — Grant.)
NID—Lat. > Long. _ _ Elev.
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh subdivision of the Yazd province. It lies
south of the Shirkuh range and about 30 miles south of Taft.
[Stack.)
N1HDIZ—Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in the east of Ears. Between it and Kutru is a pass across the
main range of Southern Persia at its extremity. Nihdiz is possibly a
misprint for Nlris. [MacGregor.)
NIHSAN—Lat. ^ Long. Elev.
A village in Northern Kurdistan, 65 miles south of Suj Bulak, on the
road to Jiltomar. [Gerard.)
NlLAMBtj—Lat. Long. Elev.
A ridge of hills crossed on the road fromZohab to Sulimania, near the
Perso-Turkish frontier, distant about 50 miles from Zohab in Kurdis
tan. [Rawlins on.)
NlLPABlZ—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the borders of Kurdistan, two stages west of Gulambar,
on the road to Sulimania. [Rich.)
NlMAGIRD—Lai. Long. Elev.
A village in Luristan, 83 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Bnrujird,
inhabited by Armenians. [Schindler.)
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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 volume has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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