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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [38r] (80/722)
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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Napier says the revenue is Es. 1/200. The Chief has at his disposal
200 horse and 2^500 loot. The peasantry are for the most part armed.—-
{MacGregor, Stewart, Napier.)
BA KH A HZ'—Lvr. , Long. ; Elev.
The Bakharz mountains are a great snowy range running east and west, being
a continuation of the Tiirbat range. They se])arate Sarjam and Turhat
Jami from Bakharz district. There is a pass called the Dahna Shishat,
through which the Khaf Ghurian road goes. With a little work it might be
made lit for guns. From the Bakharz range all the drainage south of the
Godar Kala Manar from Himatabad, Shahr-i-Nau, drains south-east, and
collects in the Bakharz stream, which, passing Mohsinabad, falls into the
Hari-Rud, 40 miles north of Kusan.— '{Bellew, Stewart, MacGregor,
Petruxeritch.)
BAKHJIR— Lat. , Long ; Elev.
A village in the subdivision of Tun of the Tabbas district of Khurasan.—
{Bellew.)
BAKHTU—
See Miiribakht.
BAKRAMABAD— Lat. , Long ; Elev.
A village of Sistan, 189 miles from Birjand and -45 miles from Sehkuha,
on the road between them. It is the first of six stages from Nihbandan,
where water is procurable.— {Kianeir.)
BALA BAND—Lvr. , Long ; Elev.
A halting place in the Dasht-i-Lut, Southern Khurasan, 76 miles from
Birjand, on the road to Karman. There are two wells 7 feet deep ; water
coid and clear, but salt. It is quite drinkable, however.
No inhabitants. Balaband is not actually on the road, but 5 miles off it.
There is a well-marked track to it, as it is used as a camping place for the
sake of water.— {Stewart.)
BALAGHOR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^ b ^
The name of a pass in the Maisur hills in the district of Gunabad, Khura
san, leading from the Nimbuliik valley into Gunabad.— {Bellew.)
BALA HAUZ*— Lat. 31° 32' 0", Long. 58° 15' 0"; Elev. 1,720' {Walker).
A halting place in the midst of the desert of Lut in South-Eastern Khurasan,
about 90 miles from Khabis. There are the remains of a ruined cistern here,
which for a long period has contained no water.— {K/ianikoff.)
BALA KFIAE, or Nasrabad —
BALAND SAEALIH (Astarabad)— Elev. 5,200'.
A halting place in the Kuzluk pass, about 30 miles south-east of Astarabad.
It is between the villages of Kiarat and Aliabad on the road ftom Astarabad
to the latter. There is a spring of water here, and an open down suitable
for camping.— {Lovett.)
BALGHUR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^ ; '• y
One of the principal villages in the small subdivision of Cholai in Khura
san, south of the Kara-Dagh mountains.— {MacGregor,)
B ALIKE II—
A branch of the Sharif Yamuts, numbering 600 tents.— {Thomson)
BAL1KHAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. , , . / ’
A pass in Khurasan, 12 miles from Askabad, on the road to Kuchan. The
ascent and descent are gradual and easy. {Napier.)
* The Upper Tank ”
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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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