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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [87v] (179/820)
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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158
DAR—DAS
This sub-division is irrigated by river water, and rice is also grown
in it. ■*-
(3) Bukmij.
This sub-division is situated in the hills, about 48 miles from the town
of Meshed, and contains several villages, the principal of which is Bukmij,
containing about 80 families. The land in this sub-division is irrigated
by a stream from the Hazar Masjid hills.
The revenue of the Darzab sub-district is tumdns 3,510 in cash, hhar-
wdrs 872 of grain (f wheat, £ barley) and hharwdrs 722 of chopped straw.
The population of the whole sub-division is estimated to be about 8,000
souls.— {Maula Bakhsh.)
DARZ VIRM—
A post on the north bank of the Kashaf Rud in Northern Khorasan,
about 15 miles east of Mazdaran, on the Meshed-Sarakhs road via
Akdarband.— (Napier.)
DASH BDLAGH— Elev. 5,900'.
A small village of 15 houses of Sharamanlu (Za’afaranlu) Kurds, situated
on the northern slope of a ravine in the hills in the Chinaran sub-division
of the Meshed district in Khorasan, about 10 miles from Saiyidabad and
16 miles from Hisar. Water good. Supplies procurable in small quanti
ties.— (C. E. Yate.)
DASH KUPRl—
Name of an old mound near a large, shallow tank between the Kujuk
and Badrak settlements, south of the Gurgan river in the Astarabad dis
trict, 9 miles from Kujuk and 5 miles from Badrak. The mound is so
called from the number of bricks in it.— (C. E. Yate.)
DASHT (No. 1)—
A village in Khorasan, on the stage between Dustabad and Afriz, on
the Tun-Blrjand road.— (MacGregor.)
DASHT (No. 2)—
A village in Khorasan, on the right of the road from Darrud to Nisha-
pur.— (Bellew.)
DASHT (No. 3)—
A stage in Khorasan, 72 miles north of Tabas, on the road to Meshed.
— (Kinneir.)
DASHT (No. 4 )—Elev. 3,200'.
A village situated at the south-eastern end of the Gurgan defile, 17 miles
from Robat-i-Karabil and 1 mile south of road from Bujnurd to
Astarabad. It contains 50 families of Turks. These 50 families provide
a guard of 25 savdrs, who are all armed with Werndl rifles. These men
are supposed to keep a watch on the road from Shaughan, the valley
lying to the west of Incha, and other places, by which the Yamuts cross
the Karatigan hills to the north. The hills to the north and north-west of
Dasht are wooded on the upper slopes with mdzu trees. Below them are
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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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