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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [388r] (800/820)
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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ZAIDAR— Lat. 36 o 25'40 // ; Long. 55° 44'0"— (Napier).
A small village of 20 houses, in the Armian sub-district of Shahrud-
Bustam, a few miles east of Maiamai on the high road to Meshed, 46 miles
from Shahrud; was built by Haji Mirza Akasi, Prime Minister of
Muhammad Shah, and garrisoned by 20 tufangchis to guard the road
against Turkomans. There are also two or three watch towers in close
proximity, built about 12 years ago. Zaidar gets water from two water
courses, which form a swamp a short distance to the north-west and then
run on to Ibrahimabad. The place is generally called Kaleh-i-Zaidar, the
pass at the entrance of which it stands Dehaneh-i-Zaidar.— (Schindler.)
ZAIMIR—
A village in the Turbat sub-division of the Turbat-i-Haidari district of
Khorasan.— (Bellew.) %
ZAINABAD—
A village in the Tun sub-division of the Tabas district of Khorasan.
Proceeding from Tabas to Bushruieh, the road to Zainabad turns off
48 miles from Tabas.— (MacGregor ; Bellew.)
ZAINADALLLT or ZAIN-UD-DINLU— Lat. 37° 30' 0"; Long. 58° 39'0''—
(Intelligence Division, War Office).
A group of two villages, Upper and Lower Zainadallu, in the Darreh Gaz
district of north-eastern Khorasan. They are situated in the Duringar
valley and contain 105 families of Kurds, who own 320 cattle and 3,000
sheep and goats. The normal annual production of wheat and barley
amounts to 1,440 and 720 Indian maunds respectively. Good water-sup
ply from the Duringar stream.— (C. E. Yate; OranofJsJcy, 1894.)
ZAIN-UD-DILLt or ZAQARIA—
Name of an old building said to contain the tomb of the prophet
Zachariah, situated on the south bank of the Gurgan river among the ruins
of some old town in the Astarabad district.— (C. E. Yale.) »
ZAIN-UD-DIN— Elev. 4,960'.
A halting-place-in Kirman, about 40 miles from Yazd, on the post road,
from there to Kirman. It, and the two succeeding stages, Kirmar.shahan
and Shams, constitute the three “ desert ” stages on this route.—( Wood,
1899.)
AMlNlBlD (Nc. 1)—
A hamlet 4 miles from Jajarm on the road to Sankhas in Khorasan.—
(Schindler.)
ZAMANABAD (No. 2)—
A large village to the south of the road from Za’afarani to Nishapur in
Khorasan. It is situated at about 24 miles from Za’afarani. Water good.
Supplies plentiful.— (Mania Bakhsh.)
ZAMlNABAD—
A village in Khorasan, 16 miles from Nishapur, on the road to Sabzawar.
It now contains eight houses, surrounded by the usual mud wall, and.
situated among corn-fields. The water is brackish, from kdriz streams.
There is a strongly-built brj.ck bridge here, thrown over the salt river
Shikab — (Goldsmid ; Bellew.)
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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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