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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [81r] (166/820)
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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DAQ—DAR
145
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DAQQ-I-QARSH AB—
A name given to a great depression in the surface of the ground between
Chahrakhts and Yazdan in Khorasan, which receives the drainage from
the Sunnikhaneh. This daqq is about 26 miles long and 7 miles wide.
In winter, after heavy rain, it becomes a sheet of water ; but in the dry
season, only a portion of the bed is covered ; the rest is deep mud, very
unpleasant to cross. The water is beautifully clear, but very salt to the
taste.— {Stewart.)
DAQQ-I-TUNDl—
A daqq or depression in the Dasht-i-NamadI, similar to the Daqq-i-
Qarsh Ab.— {Stewart.)
DARAMIAN—
A picturesque village, 12 miles east of Astarabad, situated on a r hill-
slope 2 miles off to the left of the road toBandar-i-Gaz.— {MacGregor.)
DARBAND (No. 1)—
A village of 40 houses in Khorasan at the foot of the Kuh-i-Saluq^
in a defile formed by the Kuh-i-Saluq on the east and the Kuh-i-Buhar
on the west, and at the beginning of the Dasht-i-Shaughan. It is also call
ed Darband-i-Shaughan.— {Schindler .)
DARBAND (No. 2)—
A village in Khorasan, 3| miles south of Kuchan, on the road to Sabza-
war.— {MacGregor.)
DARBAND (No. 3)— Lat. 37° 36' 30"; Long. 57° 1'0*— {Intelligence Divi-
j - sion. War Office.)
A village in Northern Khorasan, 20 miles north-west of Bujnurd.—
{Intelligence Division, War Office.)
DARBAND (No. 4)—
A group of 3 small villages in Kurdish Khorasan, 20 miles from:
Muhammadabad the capital of the Darreh Gaz district, and on the road to
Kuchan.— {Napier ; Stewart.)
DARBAND (No. 5.) —Elev. 3,800'.
A halting-place mKirman, 114 miles north of the town of that name,
on the road to Naiband. It has a large and well-kept
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, capable-
of accommodating some 200 men, surrounded by a few date-palms. The
water-supply is from a spring which, though sweet, haa a somewhat un
pleasant taste. There is some camel-grazing, but supplies are very scarce.
The serai, which has a garrison of 5 soldiers, is commanded by some hills
to the east.
Nine miles north of Darband, between it and Chehilpai, is a water
course, flow.ng. eastwards, which forms the boundary between the province*
48 I. B. Y
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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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