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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [114v] (233/722)
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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JlJABAD —La.t. , Long.^ ; Eeev. '
One of a group of six villages in Khurasan, near Ultangi Shah, south-east
of Mashhad, occupied by Sistanis and Marvlis. These villages stand
quite aloof from all other settlements in Khurasan, and the inhabitants
form quite a distinct population, in consequence of which they suffer more
than the rest from the Turkmans.
This is the extreme easterly settlement in Khurasan— {Pelrusevitch.)
JOMAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' t
A village of 200 houses in the Biarjumand luluk of the Shahrud-
Bustan province, 50 miles south-east of Shahrud, on the road to Tursluzl
The inhabitants are of mixed Arab and Ajam race.— {Napier.)
JOREZ— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Elev. '
A walled village in Tabbas district, Khurasan, Persia, 7 miles south-east of
that town, containing 200 houses inhabited by Persians.— -{Ferrier.)
JORJAN— Lat. , Long. . ; Elev.
A town in the province of Astarabad, Persia, 90 miles east of Astarabad, and
80 miles north-east of Bustan. Probably identical with Jah Jarm.— [Kinneir.)
JtTDANA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. y .
A village in the Shahrud province on the road from Shahrud to Maiomai.
There is good water here.— {Khani/coff.)
JtJFTRtlE— Lat. ^ ^ , Long. ^ ; Elev.
A village in the Nih luluk of the Kain district of Khurasan.— [Bellew.)
JTJ-I-RtJMI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A stream of salt water in Southern Khurasan, 1 £ miles from the village of
Dih-i-Saif, on the road from Karman to Birjand by the desert of Lut—
[Khanikoff.)
JELEN —Lat. , Long, ; Elev. '.
A village and serai in Khurasan, about 8 miles west of Zafaranlu, on the
road to Sabzawar. Near it there are two large ponds fed by a karez,
and a wide extent of cornfields.— {Bellew.)
JUKAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ' .
A village of Chinaran, Kurdish Khurasan, 2| miles from Chinaran [q.v.)
on the road to Radkan.— {Napier.) \
JELEA— Lat. , Long. j Elev. ' .
The quarter of Isfahan inhabited by Armenians. This part of the city, which
lies to the south of the Zaindarud, was so called from Julfa on the Araxes
in Armenia, the inhabitants of which were transported by Abbas the Great
in the beginning of the 17th century to the then capital of Persia en masse.
It is said that, like the Musulman portion of Isfahan, Julfa has declined
until it now contains only about a tenth part of the inhabitants of which
it boasted in the days of Shah Abbas. Its population now hardly reaches
as many as 3,000, while even within the last quarter of a century it reckon
ed more than three times that number. The once busy trade carried on by
the colony no longer exists; constant and unvarying oppression has broken
the spirits of the Armenians, so enterprising and eager for gain in other
lands ; and in a few more years, unless some unforeseen circumstances
should occur to arrest the progress of decay, this once prosperous and
thriving suburb of the ancient capital of Persia will become a ruin, and its
gardens so many jungles.
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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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