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‘Gazetteer of Kermanshah.’ [139r] (282/504)
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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187
Their keshlaks are at Aghdagh, Kattar and Bageheh, near Shahrbnn.
Susmahi.—This tribe is now reduced to some 12 families, wbo are found
at Sar-i-Pol in winter and in summer move about the plain of Diaavar.
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 of the
Hoi wan, 29 miles from Kerind. There is a telegraph office here.
Sheikhan.—A vilias'e 20 mib s north of Zohab. It is composed 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 tomb* 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.
Piran, Yaran and Zardeh.—In the mountains 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, Aliullahi language, Kandulei.
Baba Yadgar-i-Hussein, one hour from Zardeh. Imamzadeh, two
houses.
The re are always many pilgrims and people in refuge here. Elevation,
IjIOb'So metres.
Kalleh Sabzi : Persian frontier post, on the road between Kasr-i-Shirin
and Khanikin, numbers about 10 houses, under the son of Shir Khan,
Samsam ul Mamalek.
Kasr-i-Shiiin. Latitude 34° 30'6 V N. Elevation 2,130 feet (Rozario).
X village situated on toe right hank of the Hoi wan river. It has
some 100 houses and a bazaar with 30 sh< ps. Provisions are plentiful. Here
are a telegraph office and a custom-house The place of late years has been
greatly improved. The Petroleum Company, who are working at 3 far-
s ikhs distance, have had houses built for their staff in Kasr-i-Shirin. The
Government House is built of stone, on a hdl to the south-west of the
town, and is meant as a stronghold in case of attack. Kasr-LShirin is 103
miles distant from Kermanshah.
Zohab. Latitude 34° 35' 22" N.~A small village 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 con ained about 1,000
houses. From it£ frontier position it has been exposed to constant spolia
tion 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 Ali Mirza,
Zohab furnished to the Turks 1,000 horsemen, clad in chain armour.
Of the district of Zohab Rawlinson said : “ It is bounded on the^ north
west by the course of the river Biala/on the east by the mountains, and
on the south by the stream of Hoi wan. It formed onk of the 10 pashaliks
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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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