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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [17r] (38/820)
The record is made up of 1 volume (396 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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ANA—AQA
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ANARBlT— Lat. 35° 18' 0" ; Long. 58° 2'30".—(Aa^er.)
A large and flourishing village of central Khorasan, so called from its
celebrated pomegranates. It lies on the road to Turshiz from Tehran.
A number of nomadic Persian Baluchis, under their chief, Nur
Muhammad Khan, live here, paying revenue to the Amir of Kaln. It
has 150 houses. The water is good and plentiful ; some supplies.—
{Clerk) Taylor\ Stewart.)
’ANDAGHAN—
A village of GO houses in the Sankhas group of villages south-west
of Bujnurd. It has a strong fort, with 6 towers, on a hill, and is watered
by a canal from the Shaughan river.— {Schindler.)
ANDAN—
A ruined fort and small village situated in the Samand-i-Shah pass, on
the road from Birjand to Lain and Hi miles from the former. It con
sists of 8 houses and 15 inhabitants. Good water-supply from a kdriz.—
{C. Wanliss, July 1903.)
ANDARAZl—
Ruins of a carav&n&e.rai and a deserted village, about 8 miles from
Saiyidabad, on the high road from Tus to Isfarain.— {Schindler) Yate )
ANDARKAD—
A vdlage in the Mian Vilaiat sub-division of the Meshed district of
Khorasan, on the road to Chiraian from Meshed. Water good. Sup
plies procurable.— {Maula Bakhsh.)
ANDARQl—
A village 9 miles from Meshed, a mile to the right of the road to
Kuchan.— {Schindler .),
ANDARUKH— Lat. 36° 34' 30" ; Long. 59° 34 A 30'—{Napier.)
A village in the Meshed district of Khorasan, 19£ miles from Meshed,
on the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri and 1£ miles from the Darband or pass of
Andarukh. It has a population of 100 Persian families, who own 120 cat
tle and 2,000 sheep and goats. The annual production of wheat and
barley amounts to 300 kharwdrs—{MacGregor' r Oranofsky, 1894; Smyth,
1906.)
ANlRAJ—
A village of Astarab&d, 4 miles from Astarabad, on the road to Bandar-
i-Gaz.— {MacGregor. )
AN KHAZA—
A hamlet in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, 1 mile to the west ot
Kaleh-i-Nau {g.v.), containing some 20 houses.—1905.)
AQA (AGHi) HASAN NAZIR—
A stage in Khorasan, 36 miles from Sabzawar, on the road to Turshiz.
Water plentiful.— {MacGregor.)
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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).
Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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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 398; 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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