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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART I: A to K' [‎586v] (1177/1278)

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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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580
Kt)H—KftH
KCH DUNOSKH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mountain in Kirmanshah terminating the Kifraur valley to the north
west. It is a rounded hill with easy slopes on the eastern side, and it
throws out a rounded ridge to the south, which connects it with the Kaluj
range bounding the valley in that direction. The stream down the Kifraur
valley from Guar and that from Tirau meet in this ridge on a deep rift, and
the united waters flow on into the Dehyra valley and thence on towards
Sar-i-Pul. The hill is bare of trees. A road from Kifraur to Kaleh Shahin
runs north of it. (Vaughan.)
KUH GACHI (KtH GACHlN)—
A range of hills running from a point about 5 miles north of Birkeh Band-
-i-’Ali to a point 2 miles south of Gachin ; direction about north-east to
south-west; highest from 800 to 1,000 feet. The south slope is precipitous
and impassable from Tang Chakabak to the east of the range, the north
slope being fairly gentle. West of Tang Chakabak, the range is broader,
and much intersected by ravines.
KUH GADEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 1 mile south-east of Faqih
Hasanan containing 10 houses.— (Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
KUHGALU (COUNTRY).—
For History, Ethnography, Administration and Military see under Kuhgalu
(Tribe).
Geography.
The information at present available regarding the Kuhgalu country is
very scanty.
Boundaries. —On the north, the boundary of the Kuhgalu country is
indefinite : but it may be said that the head-waters of the Ab-i- Ala, rising in
the Mangasht mountains are in thir hands, and that the country to within
a few miles of the Karun near Bars is theirs. Their territory also extends to
near Lurdagan—a district inhabited by a settled Bakhtiari population.
To the east, w T e know nothing of the Kuhgalu-Qashqai boundary, beyond
the fact that Bell mentions Sisakht and Khurra sa Kuhgalu territory. We
may assume, then, that, at all events in 1888, the prominent Kuh-i-Dmar
formed the Kuhgalu-Qashqai boundary.
To the south also w’e know nothing definite. Kaleh-i-Aru is in the hands
of the Buir Ahmadi, Basht belongs to the Bavi, a tribe of Arab extraction,
who many years ago joined the Kuhgalh. South of Basht and Behbe lan
are various gwasi-Kubgalu tribes, classed by Baring in 1882 as Zir-i-Ku
Kuhgalu. They are Kuhgalu, however, only in name, like the Bakhtiari
in the Ramuz district. , ,
To the west, our knowledge is somewhat more exact, but is comphca e
by the fact that certain sections of the Bahmai tribe, who are undou te }
Kuhgalu by origin, have in recent years owned allegiance to the Bakhtiari,
to whom they pay a light tribute. Their territory must, however, be
considered as Kuhgalu country, though not within the administrative
province of Fars, as is nominally the case w r i bother administrative tri es.

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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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1 volume (635 folios)
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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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