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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [66v] (137/722)
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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86
tan |i' |
■tiJfir.,
There is salt water obtainable from a well, but no supplies are procurable.
— [MacGregor.)
CHAH REGtJ—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A haltino* place in Khurasan, the third stage on the road from Daiyaza to
Tabbas. & Salt water from well.— [MacGregor.)
CHAfI RlK—L at. , Long. ; Elev
A halting place in Khurasan, 41 miles from Ahwdz, on the road to Anar-
dara (Afghanistan).
There'is a large well of good water here, but no supplies.— Mac.
Gregor,)
CHAH RtTZI— Lat. , Long. Elev.
A haltino- place in Khurasan, the fourth stage from Guzik, on the road from
Rirjand to Farah (Afghanistan). Here is good water, but no supplies.—
[MacGregor.)
CHAH SHIRlN— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Llev.
A halting place in the?Shahrud district of Khurasan, about 26 miles east
of Samnln, on the road to Tabbas via Hasgirdun. There is good] water
here.— [Stewart.)
CHAH SHlRlNAK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The third stage on the road between Ahwaz (Khurasan) and Sabzawar
(Afghanistan), about 60 miles north-east of the former place, and on the
frontier of Afghanistan. There is a well of good water here.— [Stewart.)
CHAH SHtJR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting place in Khurasan, the fifth stage between Deh-i-Nau and Rabat
Chah, about 64 miles from Tabbas, on the road to Sabzawar. The water is
bad here, and no supplies are procurable.— [MacGregor.)
CHAH SHtfRlN— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Elev.
A halting place in the Great Salt Desert of Khurasan, on the road from
Biabanak to Samnan, about 51 miles from the latter place.— [MacGregor.)
CHAH SLRKH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A resting place for caravans in Khurasan on the road from Khaf to Ghu-
rian, about 26 miles from the latter place, on the Afghan frontier.
There are no inhabitants here, and but one well of water.— [Stewart.)
CHAH TtJNI — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A name given to five wells, about 5 miles beyond Balaband, close to the
road across the southern part of the Great Salt Desert of Khurasan from
Khur to Nafband.
They contain brackish but quite drinkable water, and generally there are
about 20 families of nomad Arabs encamped around them.— [Stewart.)
CHAHUR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A spring in Northern Khurasan, 40 miles from Jah Jarm, on the road to
S hahru d.—( Nap ier.)
CHAHtFR-AGIL— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Daraghaz province of Khurasan, situated on the eastern
base of the Zar-i-Kuh range.— [Petrusevitch.)
CHAH ZALU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting place in Khurasan, about 56 miles from Nfh, on the road from
Tabbas. Both water and supplies are procurable. It is situated between
hills on either side.— [MacGregor.)
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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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