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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [127r] (258/722)
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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KALAT-T-KASHL—Lit. , Lowg. ; Elev.
A halting-place in Afghanistan, 7 4 miles west of Herat, on the road to
Ghurian.— (Taylor.)
KALAT-I -KHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village on the Shahrdd plain.
KALAT-I-KHICH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Kurdish Khurasan, 20 miles from Bustan, on the road to
Nardin by Khdsh Ailak. It is a poor-looking place, surrounded by high
walls, and situated in a dreary waste.— (MacGregor.)
KAL AT-I-M ASHH A D GULI—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, about 9 miles north-north-west from Mashhad.—
(MacGregor.)
KALAT-I-MlRZA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Bajistan buluk of the Tabas province, Khurasan.—-
(Bellew.)
KALAT-I-MTJLLA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 13 miles from Dasht-i-Biaz, on the road to Kakh.
It is situated on the northern skirts of the Laid range, and possesses a
good spring of water.— (Bellew, Goldsmid.)
KALAT-I-NADTRl— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, on the road between Ghurian and Khaf. It has
plenty of water and forage.— (Christie.)
K ALAT-I-NADI Rl—
The chiefskip of Kalat-i-Nadin occupies the greater portion of the north
ern face of the rugged range of mountains separating Mashhad from
• the Atak, which may be conveniently termed the Kalat range. It
has no well defined boundaries, and this, with the nature of its surface,
makes even a guess at its area scarcely practicable. On its southern
border and on the south side of the range lie the
Boundaries. Mashhad buluks, Radkao, Danga Chulai, and
Tabatkan. North and north-east, the desert intervening between the basin
of the Tajand and the Atak forms its present boundary. East, it is_ said to
extend to the Hari Rud ; but the mountains and the Atak in that direction
are unoccupied. West, it does not extend beyond the unoccupied valley of
Abivard and the defile of Jirgaun.
The tract thus vaguely defined has a length of 70 to 80 miles and an
average width from the crest of the range to the
General features. e( jg. e 0 £ t p e (3 eser t 0 f 30 miles, and is defended by a
number of as strong defiles as are to be found in the world. It consists of a
series of valleys descending from the ridge to the plain; those to the
westward having a general direction north-east, those to the eastward neaily
east-south-east. Each valley is confined by precipitous spurs, which fall
away in rugged outlines to the lower ranges, these are of inconsideiable
height and of easy rounded outline, being composed for the most part of clays,
chalk, and marls; but they spread a most intricate maze of ravines and glens
between the plain and the basis of the main spurs. . The valleys, where
they widen out, and many spots in the lower hills are inhabited and culti-
vated, or capable of cultivation. Beyond the lower hills extends the hill-skiit,
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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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