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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [96r] (196/722)
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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They are occasionally harassed by their near predatory neighbours^ the
Yamuts. Pine, fir, and cedar are said to exist in the Goklan hills to the
east of Astarabad.— [Thomson, War Office, Intelligence Branch.)
GOLAKI—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Shahrud district, 56 miles from Damghan, on the road to
Yazd and to Biabanak.-— [MacGregor.)
GOLI DAGH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A place in the Gurgan country on the northern border of Khurasan, the
limit of the Goklan Turkmans on one side, while Gumbaz Kaus forms it at
the other.— [Thomson.)
GOROD—Lat. Long. ; Elev. '.
, A ridge or range in Eastern Khurasan crossed between Loghab and Lehdek
by the Godar-i-Gorod pass.
GORLAS—
A tribe inhabiting the village in Khurasan, called after them, Kisur
Gorlasi [c[.v.). Some 20 families of them speaking pure Mongol, notTurki,
live here. But only two or three of them speak Mongol really fluently.
Their village lies 34 miles from Sanjuran, the road to Mashhad.— [Stewart.)
GtTART BALA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 6 miles from Mshapur, on the road to Sabzawar.
It is situated on an extensive, populous, and well watered plain.— [MacGre
gor, M. S. Route.)
GtlART BALA— Lat. ^ , Long. ; Elev.
A village, 8 miles from Nfshapur, in the north of Khurasan, close to Rubat,
on the road to Sabzawar— [MacGregor.)
GTJBARAN—Lat. ’ , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, 5 miles from Kuchan, on the road to Daraghaz by the
Dawand pass. This pass is easy, and light guns have been taken over it.—
[Napier.)
GTJCHEH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 20 miles west of Damghan, on the great Tehran-
Mashhad road. There is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
here, but no supplies whatever.
GUDAR-I-BUKH or Rukh— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass and part of a range touching the northern boundary of the Turbat-i-
Hafdari district of Khurasan.— [MacGregor.)
GUDAR-I-KUHSAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in the Tang range east of Jah Jarm, and on the south-east of the
Astarabad district.— [Napier ).
GUDAR-I-SAMAN-SHAHI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. 7,000 or
7,650'.
A pass in Khurasan, 12 miles north of Birjand, on the road to Ghibk. It
forms the watershed between the Sarbesha or Birjand valley and that of
Sihdih. The pass is about 6 miles long, very winding, with here and there
small patches cultivated, and karez wells.
The surface is everywhere very stony, with sharp-pointed fragments of
trap rock. The flanking hills are rugged and bare of vegetation. Along
their base are tumuli of bright coloured masts. Near its top the defile nar
rows to a very small passage, only some 20 feet wide and 40 feet or oO feet
long, and again widens to a small basin in which are some barbeiry bushes,
rhubarb, assafcetida, &c.
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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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