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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [45v] (95/820)
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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T6
BAR—BAR
irrigation, the crops being entirely dependent on rainfall. Supplies pro
curable. They live by grazing large flocks of sheep and goats ; for their
fields produce, at all times, light crops. Shut in by high mountains, except
to the north-east, with an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet and a poor, stony
soil, it is surprising that any population should be able to subsist. But
the Kalat valleys on the north and the higher part of the range are said to
have a population of 8,000 or 10,000, who, in former days, taxed the
efforts of the most powerful rulers of Khorasan to subdue them.— (Napier ;
MacGregor; C. E. Yate.)
BARGAR—
A village of 50 houses, about 17 miles from Kuchan on the road to
Shirvan.— (Schindler.)
BAR-I-MA’DAN—
A sub-district of Nishapur, with 16 villages, some hamlets and a
population of 3,000. Its principal place is Ma’dan, the village with the
• urquoise mines.
(For full description, see article on Nishapur.)— (Schindler.)
BARlN or BARUN— Lat. 34° 8' 0"; Long. 58° V (Walker.)
A walled village in Khorasan, 7 miles north of Tun, 135 miles south of
Nishapur, containing 150 houses and Persian inhabitants.— (Kinneir;
MacGregor; Stewart.)
BARKAMAD—
A large walled village, containing about 300 families, in the Tabas sub
division of the Sabzawar district of Khorasan, situated between Mihrabad
and the village of Tabas, 5 miles from the former and 12 miles from the
latter place. Water good. Supplies procurable.— (Yate ; Mania Bakhsh.
BAR KUK—
A village in the Alghur buluk of the Kain District, Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
BARKULAH—
A village of Astarabad, one march from the south-east corner of tho
Caspian (Bandar-i-Gaz) towards Shahrud.— (MacGregor.)
BARKUT—
The Turk! name for the Siah Kuh mountains, north of the Turshiz district
— (Stewart.)
BARUGHAN—
A sub-division of theBashtin buluk of the Sabzawar district, Khorasan,
consisting of a sandy, barren, broken tract along the skirts of the Kuhmish
range. There are five principal villages with scanty cultivation.— (Napier.)
BARUMASK AN—
A village of Khorasan one stage Irom Turshiz on the road to Sabzawar.
(MacGregor.)
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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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