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'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [228v] (461/610)
The record is made up of 1 volume (301 folios). It was created in 1922. 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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The geographical characteristics o! the Persian Plateau
' an ^ of the Elburz and Caspian Provinces exercise an effect on
communications in each of these areas. In the former they
are comparatively good, in the latter extremely bad.
Routes. PIate ‘ lU The Plateau is traversed by village tracks in every direction.
-n the plains during the dry season many of them are passable
for A. T. carts or even Ford vans if irrigation ditches are filled
in or bridged, but they are wholly unfit for continuous wheeled
traffic. Very few carts are in local use, and camels are the
pack animals chiefly employed. In winter such tracks become
abominable quagmires.
The following are the principal “through” trade routes
(l) Zinjan-Ardabxl via Khalkhal.
(m) Zinjan-Sakkiz.
(n) Zinjan-BIjan via Yangikand.
(o) Kazvln-Saveh via Qum.
♦
(1).—Zinjan-Ardabil via Khalkhal.
This was formerly an important route crossing the Kizil
Uzun by iPardalls bridge, see Chapter II, p. 107, but the
bridge is now breached so that the Kizil Uzun can only be
crossed by animals with impunity during the low water season
m summer and autumn, and the route has been deserted for
a decade owing to the disturbed state of Khalkhal.
The Kizil Uzun gorge is the only serious physical obstacle
and the plateaus South and North of it afford easy communi
cations except m mid-winter. The road was passable through
out for camels. From Zinjan to Karabulagh, 49 miles, it is
f. 1 . ^ n OC ! an C01 ’^ ^e made passable for A. T. carts with very
1 6 m °; ir - 1 ° r 2 stages to Ardabil are said to be
passable for carts, but reports about this end of the road con
flict.
i Supplies, which were formerly abundant, could now be
collected with diffie Ity for 50 men and animals South of the
* Z1 , 1 ZU “’ ^9 Q an d, 130 houses, 47 miles from Zinian and
Karabulagh, 100 houses, 2 miles from Aq Kand are the only
two villages of any size remaining) and for 200 to 300 North of it.
See also Elburz route No. 17 (below).
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
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- 1 volume (301 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
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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 303; 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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