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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [71v] (147/722)
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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DAHANA-I-GHARKAB—Lat. , Lorn ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan on the Maisur hills, which separates the Nimbiiluk and
Gunabad plains. This pass is commonly used by Turkman alamo
raiding parties.— {Bellew.)
DAHANA-I-GURGAN*—Lat. o7° 21' 0", Long. 56° O' 0"; Elev.
(Napier).
A pass near the source of the Gurgan river in Kurdish Khurasan. The defile
is described as narrow and shut in by precipitous hills- but the road is good
and might be made passable for guns. A wide road cut by Shah Abbds is
buried in dense forest. From the defile to Gurgan in the plain, where there
are camps of Goklan, is 20 miles following the stream.— (Napier.)
J ) A H AN A -1 -1SIIK A B A D— ■ L at . , Long. ; Elev.
A pass through the spur of the Atak range that bounds the Daradiaz valW
on the north-west.— (Napier.) *
DAHANA-I-KHTJRMALtJt (Astaraead)— Lat. Long
Elev. • ;
The name given to the mouth of the Naudfh glen in Astarabad.—)
DAHANA-I-KISHT P1JKHTA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev 4 600 '
“ The pass of burnt bricks A A pass in Khurasan, 6 miles north of Ldwa in
a range of hills, name unknown, running from near Faridun to Turbat-i-
Haidan. In the pass, there is a ruined
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, partly built of burnt
bricks, though part of it is of stone; and this burnt brick
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
o-ives
its name to the pass. The hills around are about 1,500 feet hio-her "than
the total, so that the highest peaks must be quite 8,000 feet.” There is
plenty of grass about. The pass is quite impracticable for anything 1 but
mountain guns.— (Stewart.) J 8
DAHANA-I-MAKITJN —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Eastern Khurasan, through a range of hills to the left of the road’
from Reza to Duruh.. A considerable river runs through it, which is believed
to run into a depression m the Dasht-i-Na Tlmmed called the
Dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
-i-Tandi.
ISWCLT /j.
DAHANA-LAIIJJA— Lat. 38° 15' 0", Long. 57* 28' 0" • Elev
(Napier).
A pass over the Kuran Dagh mountains to the Atak. It lies 50 miles north
ot Bujnurd, and is said to be passable for laden mules.— (Napier.)
^ f N " I;S tv? AT ‘. ’ Long - ; Elev.
6 T , Kh ^ r a f n ^ 83 miles fl 'om Bujnurd, on the road to Chi-
. iai by the Atrak. \\ ater, fuel, and forage are abundant.—or,
Jrovi native information.) K ’
DAHA NA-I-ZAIDA R—Lat , Long. ; Elev.
ltd SlGlf“i 7 in a K T , ; raSan b lT en Mi ^^asht and Mianmai on the Mash-
come from fh T It 18 ° f ^ favounte Elites by which the Turkmans
dil of K^rfl Jai ’T Tfi 67 - WaS here that Alam , son of Rahim-
killed f har ' Was k] k f °. n 1 llls wa 3 r to Tehran. By some accounts he
sav tW be en8 ’?PT 1 L t Wltl a P ar E v of Turkmans; but the Afghans
7 that Ile was murdered by agents of Sultan Ahmad of Herat.—(Bellewj
* The “Pass of Gurgan/*
i" The te Date Tree Pass. ,,
X The “ Burning* Mouth/'
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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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- 1 volume (384 folios)
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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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