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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [78r] (160/722)
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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remain on the plateau, it was well and solidly built. From the gateway,
which has recently been erected in apparently purposeless imitation of
Nadir's gates which have been washed away by successive floods, the road
leads under the walls of a small round fort, showing a couple of guns through
the village of Arghanshah, and down a green fertile valley, with a good
stretch of rice cultivation to the village of Giuk Gumbaz or Ja-i-Gumbaz,
in which is the residence of the Khan of Kalat.— (Napier, MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-CHtfBASI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the entrances to the fortress of Kalat-i-Nadiri in Khurasan. There
is a guard of 1U0 infantry stationed here as a precaution against surprise
by Turkmans.— (Napier.)
DARBAND-I-DIHCHAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Kalat-i-Nadiri, Khurasan, forming one of the principal entrances
to this natural fortress on the north. There is a small fort here defended
by 100 Persian infantry as a precaution against surprise by Turk
mans.— (Napier, MacGregor.)
DALtBAND-I-FIRtlZA— Lat. , Long . ; Elev.
A pass in Northern Khurasan, between the Salik (or Firuza) and Ala-Dagh
mountains, miles west of Bujnurd, on the road to Jah Jarm. It is a
wide and open pass with a good road. The greatest ascent is 150 feet.—■
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-HISAR*— Lit. , Long. ; Elev.
A narrow pass in Kurdish Khurasan, about 22 miles east of Shfrwan, on the
road to Daraghaz by Imamguli; on both sides of the pass are precipitous-
heights; those on the north being called the Dagh-i-Shah.— (Napier.)
DARBAND-I-JtJR— Lat. , Long ; Elev. ^ ' .
A pass in Khurasan, about 65 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadi'ri. It is composed of a succession of very narrow defiles, divided by
small open spaces, and flanked by column-like walls of rock.— (MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KARDIH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, 20 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri.
It is a narrow gorge shut in by a high mountain formed of immense tabular
masses of metamorphic rock, which form a high outer barrier of inaccessible
crags rising to a height of 1,000 to 1,500 feet above the hill skirts.
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-KHAKISTARf— Lat. , Long. ; Exev. ' .
A pass in Khurasan on the road from Kalat to Daraghaz, and 6 or 7 miles
west of the village of Igdalik. The road having entered this defile, continues
up it for nearly an hour, over huge boulders, passing by positions of great
strength, particularly at a part 30 feet wide, where a wall, 15 feet high, has
been erected across, and where towers on both sides command the entrance.
Beyond the wall there is a succession of four or five little glens filled with
trees, and connected with each other by narrow fables—(MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KHOJA— Lat. , Long. _ ; Elev.
A pass in Northern Khurasan, 11 miles from Kalat-i-Nadiri, on the road to
Sarakhs.— (MacGregor.)
* The “ Pass of the Fort.”
f The “ Pass of Ashes.”
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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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