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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [77v] (159/722)
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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DARBADAN—Lat. 37° 34' 0 # , Long. 58° 17' 0 V ; Elrv.
A large village in Northern Khurasan, 15 miles from Daring&r Daraghaz, on
the road to Imamguli, Kuchan. It is situated in a wild glen at the head of
Daraghaz river ; and, together with Shorak, an adjoining village, numbers
about 150 houses of Turks and Kurds.— [Napier.)
DARBAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 3| miles south of Kuchan, on the road to Sabzawar.
— (Mac Greg or .)
DARBAND— Lat. 37° 36' 30", Long. 57° V 0" ; Elev. ' [Intelli
gence Department, IVar Office).
A village in Northern Khurasan, 20 miles north-west of Bujnurd.— [Intelli
gence Department, IVar Office.)
DARBAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A group of three small villages in Kurdish-Khurasan, 20 miles from
Muhammadabad, the capital of the Daraghaz district, on the road to Kuchan.
— [Napier, Stewart.)
DARBAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A stage in Khurasan on the road fr m Bashruyah to Karman through the
desert of Lut, and about 110 miles from the latter place. There is a serai
here, and water and a few supplies.— [MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-AL— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A defile in Northern Khurasan between Kardeh and Vardeh on the Mashhad-
Daraghaz road. Starting from Kardeh, one enters the defile almost imme
diately, the road going down the river-bed, and perpendicular cliffs rising
up on either side without a break for 200 feet. This continues without
intermission for 4 miles to the village of Al, the roadway being from 40 to
100 feet broad, and the path crossing continually from side to side, showing
that the defile would be impracticable during floods, and that it is extremely
dangerous in the rainy season. On leaving Al the defile becomes exceed
ingly narrow, and is commanded by an old fort in a very commanding posi
tion on the left.— [MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-ANDARUKH —Lat. , Long. ; Elrv. '.
A pass in Khurasan, lbs miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri. It is niiles in length, and consists simply of the bed of the
stream, varying in breadth from 30 to 100 feet, including the space occu
pied by water. The cliffs in either side rise sheer out of the water to a
height of 200 feet, and are quite impracticable ; while the bends of the defile
present numerous excellent sites for forts. It can, however, be easily
turned by infantry going to right or left over the hills which are not diffi
cult.— [MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-ARGHANSHAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan forming the southern entrance to the natural fortress
of Kalat-i-Nadiri. There is a guard here of two companies of Persian
infantry, and there are a few villages perched on the ledge of the hill
mostly on the west. The water of the stream here is said to be unwhole
some. In spite of a swift current, the gravel bed is covered with a coating
of green weed, by which the water is slightly c A cured. The remains of a
covered water-course constructed by Nadir are still visible outside the
Arghanshah gate. It carried the water of a spring 5 or 6 miles distant,
into the village of Arghanshah. Like all other of his works, of which trace
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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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