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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [37v] (79/820)
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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BAGHAYl-
BAG—BAG
A village about 28 miles from Meshed, near Gunabad, on the road to
K uchan,— {Maclean.)
BAGH BAGHU, or BAQ BAQU—
A small walled village in Eastern Khorasan, 64 miles east-south-east of
Meshed on the road to Sarakhs, on the right bank of the Kashaf Rud. It
is the property of Mirza ’AH Ashgar Khan of Tabriz, and has a population
of 20 Barbari famlies. There is a Persian telegraph office on the Meshed-
Sarakhs line, and a good mud fort with a garrison of about 30 men. The
water of the Kashaf Rud here is exceedingly brackish. Supplies procurable
in small quantities. Fuel from tamarisk trees in the river-bed.—
Thomson ; MacGregor ; Condie ; Stephens ; Galindo ; Sykes, 1905.)
BAGHCHAND (Napier), or BIKHKAND (MacGregor)—
A hamlet in Khorasan, 54 miles from Meshed and 2 from Bardeh, on the
road to Kalat-i-Nadiri. It has 5 or 6 houses, a tower on a rocky hill, a
good stream, and some cultivation.— (Napier ; MacGregor.)
BAGHCHEH (No. 1)—
A small village in the Sar-i-Jam sub-division of the Meshed district of
Khorasan. Water good. Supplies procurable in small quantities.— (Mania
Bakhsh.)
BAGHCHEH (No. 2)—
A village in the north-western part of Qalpush, in the Nardfn district
Khorasan. It was built in 1881 by Afrasiab Khan of Nardin.— (Schindler.)
Long. 57° 35'— (Intelligence Division, War
30'
BAGH DAMUT— Lat. 37
Office).
A village in Northern Khorasan, about 15 miles east of Bujnurd.
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
BAGH GAT—
A village in Khorasan, 28 miles east of Dasht.— (MacGregor.)
BAGH-I-GUD—
A ruined village of Khorasan, 25 miles from Shahrud, on the road to
Herat. There is a well of indifferent water. No supplies.
The garden belonging to this now ruined village was many years ago
bequeathed by its pious possessor to poor travellers, and every traveller on
foot received 4 lbs. of grapes, every horseman 2 lbs.— (Schindler.)
BAGH-I-JIK—
See Bagh Jik.
BAGH-I-KALEH—
A small hamlet of 8 houses between Radkan and Gulugah in the province
of Astarabad. and 4 miles from the former village.—(Aapfer.)
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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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- 1 volume (396 folios)
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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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