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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [79r] (162/722)
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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DAUttGH —Lat. , Long. ; El rev. / .
A village in Khurasan, about 53 miles north-west of Far ah, and 42
miles south-east of Birjand. It is a considerable place in the midst of cultiva
tion. It is walled, and has 300 houses inhabited by an agricultural popu
lation and shepherds of the Arab race.— [Lumsden.)
DAIIWARZAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A large village, protected by a double row of outlying Turkman towers, at
the foot of the southern slope of the Jagatai hills in Khurasan. To the
south of this village the country slopes to the salt desert. On the edge
of this are a number of village forts and Turkman towers. These village
forts are all deserted, now owing to the failure of water. The village is
situated to the right of the Sabzawar-Shahrud road, near Mazinan.— ( Bellev;.)
DARWAZA GLLSHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the gates of the city of Tabbas.— (MacGregor.)
DARZAF—-Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A buluk in the Mashhad district of Khurasan consisting of 18 villages
on the southern slopes of the Kalat range, and about 50 miles north-west
of Mashhad and south of Daraghaz. The estimated popul ition of this
luluk is 0,000, and the revenue derived therefrom is 3,000 tumans and
800 kharwars of grain.— (Napier.)
DARZ YARD I—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A post on the north bank of the Kashaf Rud in Northern Khurasan, about 15
miles east of Mazandarau, on the Mashhad-Sarakhs road via Ak-Darband.
(Napier ).
DASHT— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Elev. ^ .
A village in Khurasan, on the stage between Dustabad and Afris, on the Tun-
Bir j and road.— (Mac Gregor .)
DASHT—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. _ ' •
A village in Khurasan on the right of the road from Darud to Nishapur.—
(Bellew.)
DASUT—Lat, 38 c 45 / 0^, Long. 56° 10' 0 " ■ Elev.
(Napier).
A wide plateau in the north-west corner of Persia, north of the Ab-i-Sunt,
from which it is divided by low ridges, rising in a gradual slope up
to the main ridge of the Atak range, south of Kizi 1 -Arvat.— (Napier.)
DASHT—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. •
A stage in Khurasan, 72 miles north of Tabbas, on the road to Mashhad.
(Kinneir ).
DASHTA— Lat. * LoNG - * Elev -
A village in Sistan, inhabited by the Shahreki tribe.— (Napier, Bellew ).
DASHTAK— Lat. 30° 50' 0", Long. 61° 29' 0" ; Elev. ' (St. John).
A laro-e walled town in Sistan, about 14 miles south-south-east from
Nasirlbad. It is situated on the right bank of the great canal, the mam
channel of which flows round the south corner of the walls of the town.
This channel is not more than 25 or 30 yards wide, and some G or
7 feet deep ; but it sometimes overflows its banks, and there is _ water
then on three sides of the fort coming nearly up to the walls, but it is very
shallow. The walls are in bad repair, but without any breaches ; and it is
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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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