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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [71v] (147/820)
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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128
CHA—CHE
CHASHMEH-1 -SH AH HASAN—
A halting-place in Khorasan, GO miles from Sultanabad (Turshiz), on
the road to Shahrud. There is no village here, nor any supplies except
fuel. The water is very scarce and bad.— [Taylor.)
CHASHMEH-I-SHISH AB—
A small spring situated in the hills between Khal and Qarat in Khorasan,
11 miles from Rui Khaf and 14 miles from Qarat. Water good. No
habitations or supplies.—(C. E. Yate.)
CHASHMEH-I-SH0R—
The first halting-place on the road from Naiband to Meshed via Tfin,
12 miles from Naiband. The water here is very brackish, but drinkable.—
(Stewart.)
CH ASHMEH-I-SHtR AB—
A spring of brackish water, 36 miles north-east of Avaz, on the road to
Sabzawar (Afghanistan).— (Stewart.)
CHASHMEH-I-STAH KHANEH— Elev. 7,200'.
A spring of deliciously icy cold water in Astarabad close to the village of
Ziarat on the road from Chehar Deh to Astarabad.—(iouett.)
CHASHMEH-I-TEKKE—
A moumrwi^oeadow some 10 miles north-north-west of Karimabad
(No. 3), at the foot of a very high range running south-east to north-west,
in the south of Kuchan district'.—(Afa/or P. M. Sykes, 1909.)
CHASHMEH-I-TIMURI—
A spring and halting-place in the Zilrabad district in Khorasan between
Pas Kamar and Zurabad.— (MacLean.)
CHASHMEH-I-YAKHAK—
A small spring at foot of the Barn Tak pass between Burj-i-Qallch Khan
and Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam.—(Maclean.)
CHAT or CHATLl—
A place 8 farsakhs from Chikishlyar and 8 farsakhs west-north-west of
Gumbad-i-Kabus. On the Persian side there is a custom house and tele
graph office.— (Astarabad Trade Report, 1909.)
CHEHAR ’AMAQ (Khorasan)—
The name given to the nomad tribes of the Herat district. _ _
Originally the Chehar ’Amaq tribes were four, t'.e., Jamshidi, Firuz
Kuhi Taimdw, and Timuri; but at present at least six tribes are included
in the above designation, i.e., Hazara and Qipchaq, in addition to the four
first mentioned. _ # j * *
The maiority of these people live in black goat s-hair tents, ana trust
chiefly to their flocks and herds for their livelihood. Both in Afghanistan
and Persia, however, some portion of the tribes are settled. ^
The most usual plan is to have a qisfildq or settled winter residence,
while in the summer they wander about and visit their ydildq or summer
quarters in search of pasture for their flocks.
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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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- 1 volume (396 folios)
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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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