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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [319v] (645/722)
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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SALtJGHLI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Formerly an Aklral-Tirrkuman fort ; 30 miles west of Gawars.— {MacGregor.)
SAMALGJIAN— Lat. 37° 22' 30" Long. 56° 42' 40"; Elev.
{Walker). . _
A yroup of eight or ten villages in the Bujnurd district of Khurasan, 34
miles west of the town of Bujnurd. The group consists of from 400 to 500
houses, lying in a fine plateau, which stretches west for 32 or 40 miles.
Petrusevitch speaks of the Atrak as flowing through the Samalghan valley.
A pass divides the Samalghan and Bujnurd valleys. West of the Samalghan
valley, up to the sources of the Gurgan, all is desolate and unpeopled, even
by Goklans.— {Petrusevitch, Napier.)
SAMAND-I-SHAH— Lat. 33° 6' 0", Long. 59° 13' 0"; Elev. 7,000'
{St.John).
A range of hills in Khurasan, which form the line of watershed between
the Sarbiaha or Birjand valley and that of Sihdih, their direction being
nearly due east and west. The road from Birjand to Kam passes this range
at about 16 miles from the former town, the summit of the pass being
1,900 feet above the level of Birjand. The pass is about 6 miles long and
winding, the surface being covered with sharp-pointed fraginents of rock.
Near the summit the defile narrows fora distance of 40 or 50 feet to a small
passage 20 feet wide.— {Goldsmid, Bellew.)
SAMANSHAHI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^
A range of hills in eastern Khurasan near Isfiza and Birjand. It is a con
tinuation of the main range of the Mominabad ridge. From Furg the
two ends of the range bear 247° and 106° respectively. There is a pass of
the same name, which lies at one end of the Alghur subdivision; the Khunik
at the other. The main range in this part runs south-east from the pass.—
{MacGregor.)
SAMAZGAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village and fort, 1| miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri.
There are gardens here.— {Napier.)
SAMGHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Jagatai plain, Khurasan, 3 or 4 miles north of the road
through Jagatai to Nishapur.— {Napier.)
SAMf— Lat. 34° 18' 0", Long. 58° 24' 0"; Elev. ' {St. John).
A village in Khurasan, on the road from Kahkh to Bajistan, containing about
108 houses and abundant spring water.— {Bellew.)
SANAI —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, in the state of Kalat-i-Nadiri, about 15 miles west
of Giu-i-Gumbaz, and lying in a glen a mile off the road to Daraghaz. It
is situated in a valley, and is said to contain 100 houses.— {MacGregor.)
SANAWA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A ravine, up which the road from Tun to Tabas passes for some distance,
about 4 miles west of Tun in Khurasan.— {MacGregor).
SANAWA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A dry stream bed or ravine in Khurasan, 12 miles from Bashruyah, on the
road to Tun.— {MacGregor.)
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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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