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Documents related to the conflict between the villages of Kahal and Alanjiq in Azarbayjan, 1869-1941
Documents related to the conflict between two villages of Kahal and Alanjiq in Azarbayjan, arising from disputes over land boundaries and the right to water. The conflict that proceeded over years is judged by the elders of the villages, government officials, landlords, and agreements are signed and sealed by the opposing parties. However, protests, petitions, transgressions of the borders and abuses of water rights. These become subjects of some of the reports and documents listed in this item.
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Fatimah Khanum ‘Izzat al-Saltanah (‘Izzat al-Dawlah) to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1903
Fatimah Khanum ‘Izzat al-Saltanah (‘Izzat al-Dawlah) writes to her husband, ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, telling him that the Shah sent Amin al-Haram to her to tell her that he telegraphed Farmanfarma to buy one third of Alanjiq village from him. ‘Izzat al-Saltanah responded that Alanjiq belongs to her, not Farmanfarma, and that she has it in the Shah's handwriting that he bestowed it to her. She then suggested that she would have paid him ten times more to get Alanjiq and points out that Farmanfarma spent some money for the qanat there and that the place generates no income for the...