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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [162v] (329/722)
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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KtJIS! DU R — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A laro*e village in the Turshfz plain, 10 miles from Badaraskan. The
roads from Shahrud and Yazd meet here. Kundur has two good canals of
water each running in a full stream about 6 feet wide. These streams are
brought from the Shashdraz river
KONIGOSHI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A road or pass in the district of Kalat-i-Nadin in Khurasan, about 2 miles
from the Archingan gate, and just below the crest of the Guik kotal, by
which infantry and mountain guns could enter this natural fortress down to
the village of Giru.— [MacGregor.)
KUNJU-KULUN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place in Afghanistan, 10 miles from Kala Kaushid Khan, 8 miles
from Sarakhs. There are many Turkuman tents here, and water from a
canal of the Murghab.— [Stewart.)
KUNSHAI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place on the south-west border of Khurasan, 100 miles south
west of Khaf and 80 miles north-east of Pusht-i-Badam.— [Christie.)
KUPAL— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A hamlet and fort in the valley of the same name, passed 8 miles beyond
Chapishlu, on the road from Mashhad to Daraghaz.— [Napier.)
KURAN—Lat. 37° 29' 0", Long. 57° 20' 0"; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan, 20 miles north-east of Muhammadabad in
Daraghaz and on the borders of the Atak.— [Stewart.)
KURAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A valley in Khurasan, between Rum and Kam, on the road to Mashhad.
The watershed at its northern extremity, over which the road passes, is 800
feet above the valley, and is not practicable in its present condition for
guns, but might easily be made so.— [Goldsmid, Bellew.)
KTJR.YN DAGH—
Vide “ Khurasan.”
KURAT KTJH — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills in Khurasan near Astarabad from which the Kuh Sinau
is probably a spur, between Khaf and Nasirabad.— [MacGregor.)
KURAWAL —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills in the south of the Nardm plain in northern Khurasan,
those in the north being known as the Gurga.— [MacGregor.)
KTJRDABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the groups of small hamlets known as Kalata, in northern Khura
san, 25 miles east of the Rubat-i-Pul Abresham : Kuhun, Bibesan, Zaristan,
and Askavabad are the others. Magas is 26 miles distant.— [Stewart.)
KfJR DAGH— Lat. 37° 30' 0", Long. 55° 35' 0"; Elev.
A range of hills in northern Khurasan, 30 miles south-east of Chah-i-
Atrak.— [Intelligence Department, War Office.)
KtJRDANLU—L at. 37° 39' 0", Long. 57° 2U 0"; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan, on the river Garmakhan.— [Intelligence
Department, War Office.)
KURD MAHALLA—Lat. 36° 48' 40", Long. 54° 10' 10"; Elev.
A considerable village of 350 to 400 houses in the province of Astarabad, on
the road from Ashraf to the town of Astarabad, and 16 miles from the
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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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