'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [6r] (16/820)
The record is made up of 1 volume (396 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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(Persian histories say Georgian Muhammadans) and settled them here
under the severest penalties if they attempted to desert the place, and gave
them annually 100 tumuns in cash and 100 Jcharwdrs of wheat which thev
still receive from the Persian Government every year, and their descendants
continue to inhabit the village to this day, and have still a marked Georgian
cast of countenance. The people appear far more clean and comfortable,
both in their houses and dress, than the generality of Persian peasants ;
this may be accounted for by their paying no taxes, and by the profit they
make by selling provisions to travellers.
The original fort of ’Abbasabad is now ruined and lies to the north of the
present village. ’Abbasabad has a post-house. The
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
has 36
rooms with doors, and 14 rooms open to the front ; it has two gates and a
stream of water runs through its court. ’Abbasabad belongs to the Farumad
sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam.— (Gibbons', Clerk', Eastwick', Petty, Bellew,
Rozario', Napier', Khanikofj ; Schindler.)
’ABBASABAD (No. 4)—
A village in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khorasan, a mile to the
left of the road between Khaf and Turbat-i-Haidan, 51 miles from the
former and 20£ miles from the latter. It consists of 150 houses and GOO
inhabitants and possesses 100 cattle and 1,500 sheep and goats. There
is a very considerable amount of cultivation in the neighbourhood and
the annual production of wheat and barley (§ wheat, \ barley) in ordinary
years is about 11,000 Indian maunds. Plentiful water-supply from a
canal.— (C. Wanliss', August 1903.)
’ABBASABAD (No. 5)—
A village in the southern sub-division of the Kuchan district in Khora
san. It is situated between Karimabad and Daulatabad and contains 100
families.— (H. M. Temple.)
’ABBASABAD (No. 6)—
A village in the Meshed district of Khorasan, recently built in the vicinity
of the Band-i-Fariman (g.v.). It contains about 40 houses.— (Sykes ; 1905.)
’ABBASABAD (No. 7) or ABUSAIYID—
A small village in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of northern Khorasan,
42 miles north-west of Rui Khaf, on the road to Turshiz. Supplies and
water procurable. It contains 20 families.— (H. M. Temple.)
‘ABBASABAD BlTAT—
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Nishapur to Damghan, 35 miles
from the former, 222 from the latter.— (Kinneii.)
’ABDASHKAN (pronounced Odashkun)—
A village 11 miles from Meshed to the right of the road to Kuchan.—
(Schindler.) \
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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
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 contains an index map (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).
Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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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 398; 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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