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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [8r] (20/722)
The record is made up of 1 volume (384 folios). It was created in 1886-1895. 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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ABABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Eley.
A village, a little over two hours’ march from Damghan, on the road to
Tehran (Bellew), in the subdivision of Damghan, district Shahrud-Bustan,
province Khurasan.
ABARI, or ABIARI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Sabzawar, Northern Khurasan, 4 miles from the town of that
name, on the road thence to Shahrud. Close to it is the idol Khusro Gird,
a lofty minar standing in a held by itself.— [Bellew.')
ABARKTJtl— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of mountains in Khurasan, lying east of Astai’abad and the Shah war
Kuh, and west of the Khush Ailak. One branch of the Shahrud river
rises in its southern slopes.— {MacGregor.)
ABARSICH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A very fine village of 100 houses in a glen of the Shah Kuh, subdivision
Kuhpaya, of the Shahrud district, province Khurasan.— {MacGregor,
JSapier.)
ABASABAD— Lat. , Long ; Elev. '.
The ruins of a large brick
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and fort in Khurasan, built by order
of Shah Abbas, on the road from Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam to Herat, 17 miles
south of the former place, and 13 miles north of Kakriz. There is water
at a distance, but no supplies.— {Taylor, Clerk, Harding, Khanikoff.)
ABASABAD— Lat. 36° 10' 0", Long. 58° 52' 0"; Elev. '—(Napier).
A village in Khurasan, 6 miles from Nishapur, and a little to the south of
the road to Mashhad. It has water and cultivation and numerous villages
near it.— {Bellew, Gill.)
ABASABAD— Lat. 36° 22' 0" N., Long. 56° 22' 15" E., Elev. 3,008'
— {Lemm).
A village in Khurasan, 385 miles north-east of Isfahan, 180 miles west of
Mashhad, on the high road to Tehran. It is a small village containing some
50 families. There is a high mud fort with a good spring of water inside.
It lies 22 miles from Mazinan, and the same from Miandasht. It is situated
on the south side of a range of mountains, and with the serai stands in tiers
on a ridge of slate overlooking the desert to the south, presenting a pic
turesque appearance in strong contrast with the surrounding waste from
its neighbouring gardens. But there is little cultivation, almost all supplies
having to be brought from Mazinan or Sabzawar, 72 miles. The village and
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
were erected by Shah Abbas for the benetit of caravans crossing
the desert. He carried off twelve Georgian families, and settled them hpre
under the severest penalties if they attempted to desert the place; and their
descendants continue to inhabit the village to this day, and have still a
marked Georgian cast of countenance. The people appear far more clean
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department in India. It was printed by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, India in 1886.
The areas of Persia [Iran] covered are Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustan, Khurasan [Khorāsān], and Sistan. The boundaries of the areas covered by Volume I are as follows: the Afghan border from the River Helmand to Sarakhs in the east; and from there a line north-west to Askhabad, due west to the Atrak, which it follows to the Caspian Sea; then along the sea coast to Ashurada Island; then in a straight line to Shahrud; and from the latter south-east to Tabas hill, Sihkuha, and the Helmand, from where the river first meets the south-east border of Sistan.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements and buildings (forts, hamlets, villages, towns, provinces, and districts); communications (passes, roads, bridges, canals, and halting places); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, springs, wells, fords, valleys, mountains, hills, plains, and bays). Entries include information on history, geography, buildings, population, ethnography, resources, trade, agriculture, and climate.
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 includes the following illustrations: ‘VIEW OF AK-DARBAND.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 12v]; ‘PLAN OF AK-KALA.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 14]; ‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 24]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BASHRÚGAH’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 40v]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BÚJNÚRD’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 48]; and ‘BUJNURD, FROM THE S. W.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 49v].
It also includes the following inserted papers (folios 51 to 60): a memorandum from the Office of the Quartermaster General in India, Intelligence Branch to Lord Curzon, dated 6 December 1895, forwarding for his information ‘Corrections to Volume I of the Gazetteer of Persia’, consisting of articles on the Nishapur district of the province of Khorasan, and the Shelag river.
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The volume is arranged as follows from the front to the rear: title page; preface; list of authorities consulted; and entries listed in alphabetical order.
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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 388, 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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