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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [101v] (207/820)
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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FAX—FAK
FAIZABlD (No. 1)—
F
A large village in the Bashtin sub-division of the Sabzawar district in
Khorasan, situated to the south of the road from Mihr to Ribad. Water
good from qandts. Supplies plentiful.—(If Bakhsh.)
FAIZABAD (No. 2)— Lat. 35° 0' 0"; Long. 58° 49' 0*—{Napier.)
A lerge and prosperous village of Khorasan, situated in the Mahvilat
buliik of the Turbat-i-Haidari district, at the junction of the direct Tehran-
Rhaf road with that from Tabas to Meshed, 28 miles south-west of Turbat-
i-Haidari. The village contains 800 houses, and is situated on a plain.
About 2 miles south of the village is the site of the ancient town
of the same name. There are extensive ruins around a large square
fort. Between the ruins and the modern village are fruit gardens, mulberry
plantations, and cornfields. The village contains about thirty shops, two
public baths and two mosques. The water-supply is derived from two
kdrizes.
The village was originally built by Ishaq Khan Qarai with a ditch and
ramparts, but these have disappeared now, and the population having
increased owing to the construction of a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, which has consider
ably improved trade and attracted traffic, a large number of houses have
been built round the old village beyond the ruined walls. HajI Muham
mad Raza Mirza and his brothers live here .—{MaulcL Bakhsh ; Watson.
1906.)
FAIZABAD (No. 3)—
A ruined village of Khorasan between Fariman and Sang
Bast
(Per.) A Persian custom allowing an individual to seek asylum at a designated location.
on the
road to Meshed. Almost every inhabitant was carried off by the Turko
mans in the year 1^,10.—{MacGregor.)
FAIZABAD (No. 4)— Lat. 37° 17' 40"; Long. 58° 7' 30"; Elev. 2,850'.—
{Napier.)
A village in Northern Khorasan, about 19 miles from Kuchan and
3 miles south-east of Burzalabad, on the road to Bujnurd. It contains 30
houses, and has plentiful supplies.— {Napier', MacGregor \ Schindler.)
FAIZABAD (No. 5)—
A small hamlet of 10 families between Nishapur and Qadamgah in
Khorasan.—(//. M. Temple.)
FAIZ ’ALl BEG—
A village in Darreh Gaz, Khorasan, on the road to Kuchan, by the Davan d
pass, and 14 miles from Muhammadabad. It contains 20 houses.—
{Napier.)
FAKHRABAD—'
A village of Khorasan in the Bijistan buluk of the Tabas district
situated 2 i miles north-east of Bijistan, on the road to Meshed. There i s
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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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