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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎112r] (230/820)

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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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G b D1R-I-KH AE AK AN— ‘ ■
A pass in Khorasan on the road half-way between Tiin and Kam by
Bihad. The ascent and descent are .—{MacGregor.)
GUDAR-I-KHAR SANG— Elev. about 6,500'.
A pass in Khorasan, 10 miles from Turbat-i-Haidari, on the road to
Meshed, and 1,355 feet above the level of the former town. Both the
ascent and descent are easy and gradual. The southern entrance to the
pass is about 30 miles wide and gradually contracts. A few hundred
yards from the entrance the road ascends a steep, stony incline, and is only
sufficiently wide to admit of camels moving in single file, and would be
difficult for both wheeled transport and laden animals in bad
weather. The summit of the pass is reached at three-quarters of a mile,
and the descent is gradual and easy • with a small stream, Chashmeh-i-Gul
Khar, on the right.—(C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
GUDAR-I-KHUMARI—
A pass in Khorasan, 18 miles from iurbat-i-Haidari, on the road to
Meshed. It is 1-|- miles in length and is practicable for both wheeled and
camel transport. For some distance the road runs along the bed of a
stream and the pass is very narrow, not being more than 10 feet in places
and very stony. During the winter when the Gudar-i-Baidar is impassable
for camels all the traffic goes by the Gudar-i-KhumarL—(Maufo Bakhsh ;
Wanliss, 1803.)
GUD AR-I-KHUN UK—
A pass in Khorasan, 14 miles south of Kam and Sehdeh, on the road to
Birjand.— {MacGregor .)
GUDAR-I-KHORASANl—
A village, near a pass of the same name, 7650' h gh on the south-west
bord r of Khorasan, 45 miles from Kirman, on the road to Bushruleh,
through the desert of Lut. To has water, but no supplies.— (AfacGregror.)
GUDAR-I-KUIISAR—
A pass in the Tang Gah, east of Jajarm, and on the south-east of the
Astarabad district—(Ampfer.)
gudar-I-kulukhI—
A halting place for camels, 63 miles from Naiband on the road to Yazd.
\ No water.—( Stewart .)
GUDAR-I-MIAN—
A pass in Khorasan on the road from Khur to Tabas, and about 40 miles
from the latter town. The ascent and descent of this pass are quite easy;
but the roadway is commanded by numerous fine positions for defence,
and there is no water in it anywhere.— {MacGregor.)
GUDAR-I-MUHAMMAD MIRZA— Lat. 35° 43' 0"; Long. 59° 22' 0";
Elev. 6,400—(Yapfer).
A pass in Khorasan, on the road from Turbat-i-Haidari to Meshed,
34 miles from the former place. The road from Turbat-i-Haidari, after cross
ing the Julg h-i-Rukh, enters the pass. The distance from the entrance

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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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1 volume (396 folios)
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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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