'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎102v] (209/610)

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in cvovy province witli the numhers of houses in ench ? "work
of many months’, if not years’, duration. This was the method
adopted by Mr. Rabino in Gxlan, but it has never been attempted
for any other provinces and estimates are consequently pure
guess-work. Numbers suggested by Persians are in nearly
all cases patent exaggerations and have been cut down in the
figures hazarded for the population of the different provinces,
which are included with other details in the list of provinces
in Chapter V, pages 210-25. These, figures make a round
total of 1J millions for the whole population of the area.
C.—Proportion, description and characteristics of Races.
The three main races in this area are :—
1. Persian (Farsi). They inhabit the Elburz between, i. e.,
South of, the “Secondary or Northern watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. ” (See page
94) and the plateau as far West as the Safid Rud. The
greater part of the population of Tehran and f of the town
of Kazvin and the officials throughout the area are Farsi.
2. Turki. The entire population of Garmarud, Khalkhal
and Khamseh including Upper Tarum, Lower Tarum and other
parts of Kazvin province roughly West of a line drawn from
Manjil to Siyahdahan, and North West of the Siyahdahan-
Hamadan road, South East of this road and South West of a
line from Siyahdahan to Robat Karim including Kharagan,
there is an admixture of Farsi, but Turki predominates^ The
town of Saveh is, however, wholly Farsi although villages
within a few miles of it are Turki.
About i of the population of Kazvin and a smaller part of
the population of Tehran are Turki. In the strip between the
base of the Elburz and a line drawn from Siyahdahan to Robat
Karim, i. e., intermediate between the Farsi and Turki areas,
and in Varamin and Khar South East of Tehran, Turki are
found mixed with Farsi in many villages. The Farsi are the
more numerous and the original inhabitants, and the Tiuki
element is usually descended from tribes which have come and
settled among them.
3. Mazandarani and Gilakl. In the Caspian provinces these
are separated by the “ Secondary or Northern watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. of
the Elburz as far as the Safid Rud from the Farsi population
of the Elburz valleys, and West of the Safid Rud from t re
Turki people of Tarum in the Kizil Uzun valley.
In addition to the above some Armenians and Jews and
Chaldacans live in the towns, chiefly in Tehran, Kazvin and'
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