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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [190r] (384/722)
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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in the Sabzawar district of Khurasan, on the road to Maidan. There are
excellent crops of wheat and barley here, and an ample supply of water.—
{Napier.)
NIK AH— Lat. 56° 50' 0," Long. 53° 13' 0°; Eley. ' {Napier).
A river in the province of Astarabad, which rises near the Chalchalian pass
near the village of Tash, and after a course of about 100 miles flows into
the southern part of the Caspian Sea.— {Napier.)
NIMAZGAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in the Ataks, north-east of Khurasan, leading to Baghar in
Akhal. The Turkomans used to raid through it formerly.— {Thomson.)
NlMBtJLTJK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A subdivision of the district of Kain in Khurasan. It consists of a wide
valley extending from north-west to .south-east, some _ 35 miles by 12
wide. On its surface to the northward are seen the villages of Siliani,
Mahiam, and Khidri. It is separated from Gunabad by a long curving
range of hills, through which are several passes. The hill range is called
Mafsur, and the passes from south to north are named Dahan*-Gharkab,
Mugri, Rijing, Balaghur, and Dahan-Suliman.
Th e chief villages' are Girimunj, Dihushk, Buzuabad, Akbari, AKabad,
Mardosha, Saiyidabad, Radrin, Buzkab, Karish, Jamin, Behut, Munawaj,
Duduna, Murdabad, Sihkuri, Alipalang, Dasht-i-biaz, Agha Jan, Asadabad,
Naughab, and about thirty others. The range bounding the subdivision on
the north is joined to the Kuh-i-Khaibar. The drainage of the valley goes
to the
Dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
-i-LKwalan.— {JBelleiv, MacGregor.)
NISAR GARLASI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A villao-e in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khurasan, m which there are
some twenty families of pure Mongols, speaking the Mongol tongue and not
Turki, like the rest.— {Stewart.)
NlSHAPOR—L at. 36° 12' 20", Long. 58° 49', 2V'; Elev. 4,000' {Lentz,
Walker)
A town in Khurasan, 49 miles west of Mashhad, 21:2 miles north-west of
Herat, and 409 miles east of Tihran. _ . , ■. , ...
It is situated in a magnificent plain, 18 miles m length, covered with
villao’es and trees, and intersected by numerous streams and canals.
The town of Nishapur is about 2 miles in circuit, but its walls enclose
many ruins and vacant spaces of ground, upon which buddings once stood.
It contains 3,000 houses ; and its bazars are well filled, and supplies cheap.
The walls of the town and the ditch are in a bad state of repair, as is t re
“Tht handsomest cavavansarai at this place is outside the walls on the
r0 Nfehdp I dv 1 is a tld to have been founded hy Tapamur a prince of the
Pishdadian dynasty, and was formerly one of the nchest and largest cit.es
of Persia and one of the four royal cities of Khurasan. It then boie the
name of Abarshahr, and was taken and destroyed by Alexander the Great
qi u tv'v rpcfnrpd if - and to perpetuate the fact, gave it his name, and
erected an immense statue’ which remained standing until the first invasion
of the country by the Mussul mans, who m their zeal destroyed it.
* or “ Daliana/
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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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