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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [331v] (669/722)
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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mountains, and flowing- past Zaminabad, where it is crossed by a strong
brick bridge, and eventually joining the Shashdraz river.— {Napier.)
SHORAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A spring in eastern Khurasan, between the Burj Gulwarda and Yazdan,
20 miles from east. The water is brackish, but drinkable. There is a spring
of the same name and answering to the same description, 35 miles from
Ghurian, on the road to Rufkhaf.— {MacGregor, Stewart.)
SHORAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A range of hills, 30 miles north-west of Tabas, in Khurasan.— {Mac
Gregor^
SHORAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A tumble-down sarai, 14 miles from Safuna, on the road from Khur to
Tabas in western Khurasan.— {MacGregor.)
SHORAB —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, situated in the plain lying below the Juvam hills,
in which are the turquoise mines of Madan.— {Khdni/coff.)
SHORAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Gunabad subdivision of the Tabas district of Khurasan.
/ {Bellew.)
1 SHORAB— Lat. 31° 13' 56", Long. 58° 22' 15"; Elev. 4,333' {Napier
\ 1876).
\ A village in Khurasan, 25 miles from Nishapur, on the road to
\ i, Sabzawar. It contains some 60 houses, with gardens and good water ; but
<N L ' supplies are not procurable. A magnificent sarai was commenced here
! ( l by the Mustashfr-ul-Mulk,
Wazir
Minister.
of Khurasan, but left unfinished on his
deposition from office.— {Goldsmid.)
SHOR CHAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A spring in the south of the Shahrud Bustan district, 6| miles south
east of Zogdi and 321 from Gebur, on the road to Bashruyah. —
SHORCHAH, or SHURJAH—Lat. 36° 2'0", Long. 61° 6' 30"; Elev.
{Nopier).
A frontier fortlet in Khurasan, 78 miles (Thomson) or 95 miles (Napier)
from Mashhad, on the road to Sarakhs by Ak-Darband. It has a garrison
of about 50 Persian infantry. The water here in the river (Tajaud) is
brackish; but there is a good spring of drinking water about 2 miles up
the defile; and fuel and grazing for horses and camels are very abundant.
Ibis is the only place between Ak-Darband and Daulatabad where there is
water.— {Thomson, Napier, MacGregor.)
SIlOR GHAZ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
. A camping-ground in the Sistan desert, 86 miles from Bam, on the Sistan
road. \\ ater is procurable here by digging wells 5 feet deep, but is brack
ish. The words mean ‘salt' and ‘tamarisk/ There is a desert plain here,
the subsoil of which is formed of salt and lime; while the surface is covered
with gravel and some struggling tamarisk. The latter, although growing
on a saline soil, have sweet exudations from their bark, a kind of manna.—
{Goldsmid, Rozario.)
SHOR HIJJAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Dasht-i-Rukh subdivision of the Turbat-i-Haidan district
of Khurasan. It lies aoout 20 miles north of Turbat at the entrance of
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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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