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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [151r] (306/722)
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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summit covered with fields of snow, across which the path leads. The-
ascent from the Mashhad side is by a fairly good path, and takes one
hour and five minutes from the Pai Grudar sarai, which lies at the foot
of a great bluff, where the defile branches to the left and right. From
the summit of the ridge both the Mashhad plain and city and the
Nishapur plain and city, with many villages, can be seen. The descent
is due west by a very steep and stony pass down into a deep and dark
defile.— [^Bellew.)
KOTAL-I-PACHINlR, or TAPA-I-SALAM*—Lat. , Long.
Elev. b
A pass in Khurasan over the Binaluh mountains to the west of Mashhad.
From this pass the first glimpse of the holy city and its shrine is caught by
the pilgrims travelling thither by the Dibrud road, and its summit is
crowned with tall cairns formed of the stones piled up by them to commemo
rate the event.— ( Goldsmid.)
KOTAL-I-SH AIKH AN A—Lat. 37° 18' 0", Long. 57° 19' (T; Elev.
A pass in the Bujnurd district of Khurasan, about 14 miles south of Bujnurd,
on the road to Isfaram. It is not practicable for animals during four
months in the winter.— [Napier.)
KOTAL ISTAKANCHIL—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, crossed at the end of the second stage of the route
from Sarakhs to 'Kuhsan. It is practicable for guns. Here is abund
ance of water, fuel, and forage.— [MacGregor.)
KOTAL-I-SURKHANI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, about 20 miles from Kuchan, on the road to Sabzawar.
The road over the pass is bad and 2 miles in length.— [MacGregor.)
KOTAL-I-TAKHT-I-BASHKAR— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A very high pass in Khurasan, between the Aladagh and Salik moun
tains. It was crossed by the Russian Consul Bakulin in a wheeled car
riage on the road from Bujnurd to Tavar.— [Petrusevitc/i.)
KOTAL-I-TIRGAUN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan crossed on the road from Kalat-i-Nadiri to Haraghaz,
at about 27 miles from the former. The ascent from the Kalat side
takes about one-and-half hours by a road, at first easy though stony, but
afterwards getting gradually worse and worse, till near the top the road
ascends by a very steep stony zigzag tract to the summit. It then
descends for one-and-a-half hours, at first quite as bad as the ascent, but then
gradually improving to an encampment of Kurds, near a spring of good
water; whence to the village of Tirgaun is one-and-a-half miles.-—
[MacGregor.)
KOTAL-I-TURBARAZ —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, about 11 miles out of Mashhad, on the road to Msha-
pui \—[War Office Report on Persia, Part II, Route 262.)
KOTAL-I-WAJMANTJ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass crossed between Shahrud and Astarabad, 19 miles from the former.
Ascent from Shahrud 1 mile and steep. [Napier.)
KOT AL-I-Z ARDAWA —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, about 17 miles from Jajarm, on the road to Shahrud by
Nardin. The ascent from the east is stony, and at first very steep. It
* The “ hill of salutation. 5 ’
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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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