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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [316r] (638/722)
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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585
and the surrounding district is lost in the Kavir to the south. This
river rises in two branches, one of which runs down from between the
Shah-Kuh and the Shahwar-Kuh, and is formed of two streamlets,—one
coming from the Chalchalian pass, the other from that of Wajmanu. The
other branch of the Shahrud drains the district of Pusht-i-Bustan, and has
its rise from the south slopes of the Abr-Kuh, and, flowing past Bustan,
joins with the Jash branch north of the low ridge, which bounds the Shah
rud plain on the north.— (Napier, MacGregor.)
RTJ D-I-SHAMAT —Bat. , Bong. Elev.
A buluk of Sabzawar, Khurasan. It is an elevated, broken track, com
prising the whole of the isolated range dividing Sabzawar from Nishapur,
and connecting the Kuh-i-Mesh and the Kuh-Surukh ranges. It is watered
by two streams, known as the Shamkan and Kala Maidan streams.
There are seven principal villages. The soil is sandy and generally unfertile,
and the province inconsiderable. There is a lai’ge mixture of people of
Arab descent in the Persian population.— [Napier.)
RTlD-I-SHORAB— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev. '.
A good-sized stream running through a deep ravine near the village of
Shorab, about 45 miles east of Sabzawar, Khurasan.— [Rozario.)
RTJD-I-USHTAZAN— Bat. , Bong. , Elev.
A watercourse in Khurasan, generally dry, about 5 miles from Chah-i-
Sagak (on the Perso-Afghan frontier) towards Duruk.— [Bellew.)
RTJDKAR— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, on the road from Bashruyah to Abbasabad.—
[Stewart.)
RTJH— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, on the right of the road from Darud to Nishapur.-—
[Bellew.)
RUI— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev. b
A village in Khurasan, 15 miles from Khaf, on the road to Turshiz. It is
a populous village.— [Forster, Khdnikoff.)
RtJI SANG— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev.
A village in the Bajistan buluk of the Tabas district of Khurasan.—
[Bellew.)
RUKHI— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan lying in a valley surrounded by hills, on the road
from Sabzawar to the turquoise mines at Madan.— [Khdnikoff.)
RGM— Bat. 33° 27' 30," Bong 59° 6' 0"; Elev. ' [St. Bohn).
A village in Khurasan, 2 miles from Sahdih, on the road from Birjand
to Kam, and lying to the west of a lofty hill called Angarm. It is a small
walled village of 80 houses on the banks of a stream. Its water-supply is
abundant, and it has a few fruit gardens and corn-fields. Its population
is scant, not exceeding some 30 families; but it has suffered much from
famine and from Turkuman raids.— [Goldsmid, Belleio.)
RTJSHANABAD*— Bat. , Bong. ; Elev.
An imamzada, or temple, in Khurasan, 10 miles from Astarabad, on the
road to Shahrud, and within a mile of the Shahat Kulla stream.— [Napier.)
* Same as “ lioshanabad,” probably.
74
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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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