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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [248r] (512/820)
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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KUMBALAN or GUMBAZLl—
A village, situated to the right of the road from Meshed to Kuchan, 27
miles from the former place. It is inhabited by 30 families of Kurds, who
possess 60 cattle, 200 sheep and goats and 30 horses. The normal annual
production of wheat and barley amounts to 2,000 Indian maunds.— (Ora-
noffsky, 1894.)
EUMISDAN— Lat. 36° 39' 50"; Long. 57° 19' 0" ; .Elev. 4,000' (Napier
3,800' (C. E. Yate.)
A small village situated in the Jaghatai district of Khorasan, on the road
from Jaghatai to Sabzawar. Prior to the famine years of 1870-72, it con
tained 150 houses and a population of 700 or 800 ; but depending for its
water-supply on one of the mountain streams, and having no kariz water,
it was entirely depopulated. An ’amil, or collector, has been settled in the
village, to prevent a fresh desertion of the desolate ruins, and to bring it
into a revenue-paying conditiom It produces good crops of wheat and bar
ley, though the water-supply is scanty.— (Napier.)
Kumisdan is situated about 3 miles south by west of the ruins of Ak Kaleh
14 miles from Jaghatai, 13 miles from Mihrabad and 30 miles fromTabas.
At present it contains only about 40 houses of Qilich Turks.— (C. E. Yale.)
KUNDABAD—
A village containing 30 families, between Rashldabad and Nishapur in
Khorasan.— (H. M. Temple.)
KUNDAR—
See Kundur (No. 2).
KUNDEH SUKHTEH—
A halting-place with a little cultivation, on the Perso-Afghan frontier, on
the bank of the Hari Rud.— (Maula Bakhsh.)
KUNDUR (No. 1)—
A considerable village in the Alghur sub-division of the Kain district
in Khorasan, on the road from Tun to Birjand and on the stage from Afriz
to Afzalabad.— (MacGregor.)
KUNDUR (No. 2)— Lat. 35° 12' 0" ; Long. 58° 16' W—(Napier.)
A large village in the Turshiz plain, 16 miles from the chief place of Tur-
shiz, Sultanabad, and 10 miles from Badrashkand. It is situated on two
canals brought from the Shish Diraz river, each running in a full stream
about 6 feet wide.— (Taylor ; Stewart.) ,
KUNSHl—
A halting-place on the south-west border of Kborasan, 100 miles south
west of Khaf and 80 miles north-east of Pusht-i-Badam*.— (Christie.)
KUPAL—
A hamlet and fort in the valley of the same name, passed 8 miles beyond
Chapashli, on the road from Meshed to Darreh Gaz.— (Napier.)
* Cannot be located. Khaf to Pusht-i-Badam is nearly 300 miles. j
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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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