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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [156v] (317/722)
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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1868-1872. Its sloping banks are covered with tall ree ls and high tamarisk
jungle.— (Bellew.)
KtJH AMAUAT*—Lvt. , Long. ; Elev.
A mountain in northern Khurasan, due south of Kalat and east ol Darbaud,
in which rises the Kalat stream.— [Napier.)
KtJH ANGAHRANt—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of mountains in southern Khurasan, which is known farther on as
Khwaja Shahz. At the foot of the range about 16 miles from Charaks
stands the small village of Angahran, shortly after passing which a pass in
the mountains is entered.— [Stewart.)
KtJH AZKAND—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A mountain range in Khurasan, which bounds the Turshiz plain on the
north.— [MacGregor .)
KT3H BAJWIRD—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills shutting in the Turshiz plain to the north. [Stewart.)
KtJH BAKHTAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place in the Kain district of Khurasan, 25 miles west of Nihban-
dan. There is a spring of brackish water, but no houses. [War Ojjice Report
on Persia, Part II, Route 128.)
KtJH BEGTJ—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills bounding the Turshiz plain on the south.— [Stewart.)
KtJH BEHTJD—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. /•
The western continuation of the Kuh-Baras m the Kam district of Khu
rasan.— [Bellew.)
KtJH BINAR—Lat. , Long. ; Elev *
A magnificent scarped hill in Astarabad seen to the left ot the kotal
Chalchalian on the road from Shahrud to Shahkoh.— [MacGregor.)
KtJH BIZ—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. .
The culminating peak of a range on the Perso-Afghan border, which rises
behind Shahr-i-Nau, the principal village of the Bakharz district. It has
snow on its sides far into the summer. From Kiih-Bizthe range falls away
eastward, passing behind Taibad and Kafir Kala to the banks of the
Hari Rud.— [Napier.)
KtJH DtJM BtJFT—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A mountain range in Khurasan, on the right of the road from Lut to
Ardakan.— [Mac Gregor.)
KtJH FIGHAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. .
A lofty hill due north of Abdullahabad in the Turbat-i-Haidan district of
Khurasan, the culminating point of a range which runs north-west to south
east. According to local tradition, it was Rustam’s mourning retreat after he
had killed his son Zohrab, who was fighting against the army of Afrasiab,
commanded by him. Hence its name, the “Hill of Lamentation.”—
[Bellew.)
KTJH-I-AHWAND—Lat. 35° 55 7 0", Long. 55°o' 0"; Elev. 7 [Napier).
A peak in the Jandak range of hills in Khurasan, 30 miles south-east of
Shahrud, which separates the Shahrud valley .from the salt desert to the
south.— [Belleio.)
* ‘ Kuh ’ or ‘ Koh,’ a hill—either i 8 right, according to Johnson’s Russian and Arabic diction-
ary ; or Ivu.li Imumt. ^
f Also “ Anguran ^ and u Ahinguran. ,>
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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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