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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [41r] (86/722)
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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BlRlN, "or BARUN— Lat. 31° 8' 0", Long. 58° 7' 0" : Elev.
( IFalker ).
A walled village in Khurasan, Persia, 7 miles north of Tun, 135 miles south
of Mshapur, containing 150 houses and Persian inhabitants.— [Kinneir,
MacGregor, Sfeivart.)
BAR KtJK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Alghur buluk of the Kain district, Khurasan.— (Bellew.)
BAR KULAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Astarabad, one march from the south-east corner of the Caspian
(Bandar Gaz) towards Shahrud.— (MacGregor.)
BARKUT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Narjun buluk of the Kain district, Khurasan.— (Belleiv.)
BARKUT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The Turki name for the Siah-Kuh mountains north of the Tursluz
district.— (Stewart.)
BARUBAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, Persia, situated under the hills, about 10 miles
from Khaf near the road to Herat.— (Clerk.)
BARUGHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. b
A buluk of Sabzawar district, Khurasan, consisting of a sandy, barren, broken
tract along the skirts cf the Kuhmish range. There are live principal vil
lages with scanty cultivation.— (Napier.)
BARtJMASKAN—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan one stage from Turshiz on the read to Sabzawar.—
(MacGregor.)
BASHRTJYAH—Lat. 33° 52/ 26", Long. 57° 22' 30"; Elev.
(Lentz).
A large village of Khurasan, situated in the middle of a wide plain on the
road from Tun to Tabbas, visited for the first time by an Englishman
(Colonel MacGregor) in 1875. It is described as consisting of some 800
houses, and surrounded by a circle of cultivation for a radius of about 3 miles.
It is enclosed by a wall in the last stage of dissolution, and covers an area of
about 500 yards by 400, the long side facing the north. There are four
gates, one in each face, and in the north-west angle is the “ arg ^ or citadel;
which, though rather imposing at a distance, has no importance whatever as
a fortihed position. The water is good and all supplies are procurable, though
there is no bazar and no merchants. The only manufacture is a woollen cloth
called “barrak, ”a soft warm material made from the hair of goats. Though
the place has much cultivation, it could not probably export much of its
good grain without running the risk of another bad year, such as they had
in 1871; when it is said that over 1,000 inhabitants died.
Bashruyah is the chief place of the bulukof the same name in the district
Tabbas. The buluk consists of the following villages : Ispak, Aliabad, Taraj,
Rukha, Arishk, Murdistan, Deh-i-Nau, Khuramabad, &c. There appeared
to be no armed men of any kind in the place in 1875, though it is said to
have been formerly much exposed to raids from Baluchis.— (MacGregor.)
BASHTAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '•
A buluk in the north of Sabzawar district in Khurasan. A good deal of the
soil is trap, and consequently fertile. Cotton and silk are raised. It has
eleven villages.— (Napier.)
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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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