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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [170v] (345/722)
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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The ascent from the south is very rocky, steep, and difficult at first, and
would have to be much improved for artillery. The top is level for three-
quarters of a mile ; and the descent to the village of Darband is generally
very easy, over open, rounded hills, covered in the summer with magnificent
grazing, the roadway being over earth. The whole is about two-and-a-
quarter miles.
The plateau of Maidan-i-Khuni is the watershed of this portion of the
Alburz mountains The rivers, as the Atrak, which rise on their western
slopes, flow into the Caspian Sea; while those which rise in the eastern
slope flow towards the Tajand river and are lost in the Kara Kuna desert.
Light guns may with difficulty be taken by this route. Its elevation
above the sea exceeds 5,000 feet.— {MacGregor, Napier, Stewart.)
MAI GAN— Lat. , Loxg. 59° 24' 30"; Elev. ' {Lentz).
A village in the subdivision of Nihbandan in Khurasan, lying at the
western foot of the Sardara pass. It is surrounded with fields cultivated
with unusual care.— {Kkamkoff.)
MAIM EH —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass or defile in the Atak mountains, northern Khurasan, leading from
Bujnurd to the Atak territory, through which the Turkumahs pass on raids
in the Persian territory from the Akhal country.— {Thomson.)
MAINABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A range of mountains in Khurasan crossed by the Gudar-i-Darmian pass
at 5 miles from Isfizar on the Birjand-Herat road. It is a continuation
of the Samand Shahi range.— {MacGregor.)
MAINTALU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan, 14 miles west-south-west from Eindarisk,
on the road to Astarabad, and situated in the forest at the edge of the
plain.— {Napier.)
MAI Rl— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Kurdish Khurasan, about 8 miles east of Kuchan. It has
about 100 houses and an abundant supply of good water; but there are no
gardens or trees about it.— {MacGregor.)
MAISHMAST*—
A tribe of Arabs, who inhabit the district of Turshfz, Khurasan. They
belong to the Jumali tribe ; but got this name, which signifies “the Wan
ton Sheep,^ from having entered into a war about a sheep.— {Malcolm.)
MAISCR— Lat. ^ , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills in Khurasan, which divides the subdivision of Nimbiluk
from that of Gunabad. The passes through it from south to north are
named Dahan-i-Gharkab, Mugri, Rijing, Balaghur, and Dahan-i-Sulfman.
— {Bellew.)
MAIUMAI —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, 28 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Sarakhs by
Muzdaran. There is good water here, and supplies are procurable.— {Mac
Gregor.)
MAIUMAI (Shahrud)— Lat. 36° 24' 57", Long. 55° 38' 45"; Elev 3,168'
{Lemm).
A village in the Shahrud-Bustan district on the Shahrud-Mashhad road
It is a fine village, picturesquely situated at the foot of two remarkable
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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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