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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [109v] (225/820)
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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GHU-GIP
202
GHtfRl SALKH—
A fine, open valley between Curb Adam and Sbambhal with rounded hills
on either side, extending from north to south for about a mile and then
turning abruptly to the right towards Duringar.— {Maclean.}
GHtSQAN—
See Kuzqan.
GIF AN or GlFANA.— Lat. 37° 51' 0"; Long. 57° 27' 0"; Elev. 4,430.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
A village, stream, and hill in Northern Khorasan. The village is situated
in the valley of the Shlrin dial river. The peak is the first of a series
which run south-east from the northern chain of the Kuchan province.
The stream from it joins the Atrak, having issued from under the rocky
Misinau ridge west of Garmab. There are no Gifan settlements beyond its
extremity. Below the gorge in the Gifan valley there is no population for
13 miles, as far as Katlish, where the Gifan and Khush Khari blend. Beyond
the villages of Nau and Kaleh Jiq the Gifan and Khush Khari uniting enter
the Shirm Darreh. The Sumbar Su joins the Gifan in the Maneh valley.
There is no population from the extremity of the Misinau range to Mahmud-
abad, 28 miles.— (Napier ; Petrusevitch.)
GlLAB— Lat. 38° 8' 0" ; Long. 56° 40' 0".— (Intelligence Division, War Office.)
A village in Northern Khorasan situated on a branch of the Ab-i-Chandir.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
GILAN—
A village with 20 families, 10 ploughs and supplies in small quantities,
situated on the left bank of the Kash f Bud between Qilichabad and Kichi'
dar, being about 8 miles from the former and about 4, miles from the latter
— (MacLean.)
GILiNGAN—
A small stream in Khorasan, crossed on the road from Birjand to Meshed
about 28 miles from the former town.— (Goldsmid ; Bellew.)
GILAN MAGAS or GILAN MAGHR or GILANU MAGHZ—
A group of two villages containing 100 houses in the Shahrud district,
14 miles from Bustam on the road to Jajarm. Supplies and water ample.—
(Napier.) See Mazaj and Jilan.
GIL CHASHMEH—
A spring and halting place, 17G miles south-east of Samnan, on the road
to Tabas.— (Stewart.)
GIP (Village) (written KABKl)—
A village in Khorasan, 28 miles nor’-nor’-east of Meshed, on the road to
Kalat-i-Nadiri by Chehch'h. It has fuel and forage in abundance.— (Mac*
Gregor.)
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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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