Thursday, January 31, 2019

Regiments of Hamadan (H. Gough, [1906] 1907)


Regiments of Hamadan




The Governor of Hamadan during the last year was the Yamines-Sultan. By far the most powerful person at Hamadan, however, is the Amir-i-Afkham, now Governor of Kermanshah. Hamadan possesses five regiments, three of the Karaguzlu tribe (two belonging to the Amir-i-Afkham, and one to the Zia-ul-Mulk), one of the Buchalu tribe, the property of Abdulla Khan, and one of the Khalaj tribe, the property of one Ahmed Khan.
There are also three hundred sowars, under the orders of the Amir-i-Afkham, and there are a few guns, but no trained Artillerymen to serve them. The guns are mostly antiquated small muzzleloaders.

H. GOUGH, Captain, His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Kermanshah.
Kermanshah;
The 10th May 1906.


Annual Report of the Kermanshah Consulate for the year ending the 31st March 1906. // Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for 1905-1906, Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1907, p. 49.


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