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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [352v] (725/820)
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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SHI—SHU
SHISHaB—
See Chashmeh-i-Shishab.
SHISH DIRAZ or AB-I-SHISH DIRAZ—
A river in Khorasan, which receives the drainage of the Turshiz district
and after a course of some 160 miles in a southerly direction, is finally lost
in the great depression of Khorasan, the salt desert, or kavir. In the
upper part of Turshiz near Kundur it is crossed by the road from Turshiz to
Shahrud, and is divided into six streams or channels (hence its name), two
of which pass through the village of Kundur, running in a full stream
about 6 feet wide.— (Clerk ; Taylor ; MacGregor ; Stewart ; Schindler.)
SHtDtTNlS—
A tribe who reside near Tabas in Khorasan.— (MacGregor.)
SHtfRAB (No. 1) (Mountain)—
A range of hills, 30 miles north-west of Tabas, in Khorasan.
(MacGregor.)
SHORAB (No. 2) (River)—
^ A salt stream in Khorasan, rising in the eastern slopes of the Jaghatai
mountains, flowing past Zaminabad, where it is crossed by a strong
brick bridge, and eventually joining the Shish Diraz n\QX.—(Napier.)
SHtlRAB (No. 3) (Spring)—
A spring in eastern Khorasan between the Burj-i-Gulvardeh and Yazdan,
20 miles from the latter. The water is brackish, but drinkable. There is a
spring of the same name and answering to the same description, 35 miles
from Ghurian, on the road to Rul Khaf.— (MacGregor ; Stewart.)
SHDRAB (No. 4) (Stage)—
A tumble-down serai, 14 miles from Safuria, on the road from Khur to
Tabas in western Khorasan.— (MacGregor.)
SHORAB (No. 5) (Stage)—Lat. 33° 35' O'; Long. 56° 14' 0*—(&. John.)
A stage in Khorasan, on the road from Yazd to Tabas. There is a cara
vanserai here in bad repair; and water from a river-bed. This is salt; but
2 miles west there is a hauz with sweet water. The stream, which is
generally dry, flows out into a kavir to the east. A scanty supply of pro
visions is obtainable.— (MacGregor \ Bellew ; Stewart.)
SHCfRAB (No. 6) (Village)—
A village, 14 miles north-west of Meshed and north-east of Tus. —
(Schindler.)
SHtRAB (No. 7) (Village)—
A small village in the Sar-i-Jam sub-division of the Meshed district in
Khorasan.— (Mania Bakhsh.)
SHGRAB (No. 8) (Village)—Lat. 36° 13' 56'; Long. 58° 22' 15'; Elev.
4,M3'—(Napier, 1876).
A village in Khorasan, 25 miles from Nishapur, on the high road to
Sabzawar, It contains some houses, with gardens and good water; but
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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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