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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [105v] (215/722)
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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masonry reservoir, flankod by two small chambers for the shelter of
travellers. It is on the road side, and was restored about 20 years ago by the
Amir of Kam. The surface of this basin is covered with Syrian rue,
camel thorn, assafoetida, &c. The assafoetida is called kdma, and is
used as a pot herb.— (Bellew.)
HAUZ-I-MUHAMMAD KASIM— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A halting-pi ace in Khurasan, 4-i miles from Tabbas, on the road to Birjand.
There is good water here, but no supplies.— [MacGregor.)
HAUZ-I-PANJ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.^
A halting-place with good water in the Dasht-i-Lut, Khurasan, 75 miles
east of Karman. This is not a large well, but always contains good water.
No supplies and no inhabitants.— [Stewart.)
HAUZ-I-RAHAT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A road-side reservoir and halting-place, 5 miles west of Mashhad, on the
road to Jajark.— [Bellew.)
HAUZ-I-SAFED— Lat. , Long.^ ^ ; Elev.
A reservoir of good water in Eastern Khurasan, about 6 miles east of
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, on the left of the road to Herat.— [Khant/coff.)
HAUZ-I-SANGr DTjKHTAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A brick reservoir in Eastern Khurasan, containing good rain water, about
22 miles west of Ghurian, on the road from Khaf. There is a good plain for
encamping, with lots of furse for firewood. Mater good and plentiful, but
probably dry in summer. No supplies.— [Taylor, Steivart.)
HAUZ-I-SULTAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place in Khurasan, 39 miles from Tabbas, on the road thence to
Karman.— [Kinneir.)
HAUZ JINBRIK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
An encampment in Khurasan, 18 miles east of Khur, on the road to Birjand.
— [Ferrier.)
HAZAR AMlN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, Persia, 16 miles east of Tehran. It is inhabited
principally by Kurds.— -[lf r olff.)
HAZARDS.
A tribe of Persia which inhabits the country to the east of the Taimuris of
Khaf, between it and the great range from Khairabad to Rosanak. Ihey
are a turbulent, but not very numerous, tribe of about 60U families, who live
both in tents and houses, and who render allegiance to the Persians and
Afghans, as these powers are able to enforce it. They possess the three small
towns of Mahmudabad, Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, and Kahriz, each perhaps
consisting of 200 houses; and they cultivate grain along the base of the
small, or, as it may be named (since it separates the two Turbats), the
Turbat range. This tribe are violent professors of the Suni creed, and their
features show them to be descended from Tartars.
They are of Usbek origin. They formerly formed part of the Barlas
tribe, which dwell, even to the present day, in the neighbourhood of Shahr-
i-Sabz, a town situated to the south-east of Bukhara, and known as the
birth place of Tamerlane. When this king (799 of the Hejira) named his
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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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