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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [19r] (42/722)
The record is made up of 1 volume (384 folios). It was created in 1886-1895. 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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AMSARIZ— Lat. , Long. • Eley.
A village of Eastern Khurasan, 5 miles north-east of Bajistan, on the road
to Turbat-i-Haidari. It has about 100 houses, and cultivation near it.—
{Rozario.)
AN ABU— Lat. , Long. • Elev. '.
A spring and two houses, 2 miles from G-ibur, passed on the road to Zogdi,
in Western Khurasan, 48 miles from the Kalmura stream, and about 30 miles
south of Biarjumand.—
AN AN— Lat. 37° 29' 0", Long. 57° 27' 0"; Elev. ' {Intelligence
Department, Jfar Office).
A village in Northern Khurasan, about 2 miles east of Bujnurd.— [Intel
ligence Department, War Office).
ANAR AK — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the subdivision of Tun, district Tabbas, province Khurasan.—
{Bellew.)
ANARBAT— Lat. 35° 18'0", Long. 58° 2'30", Elev. ' [Napier).
A large and flourishing village of Central Khurasan, so called from its
celebrated pomegranates. It lies about 60 miles east of Tairun on the
road to Turshiz. A number of nomadic Persian Baluchis, under their Chief
Nur Muhammad Khan, live here, paying revenue to the Amir of Kain. It
has 150 houses. The water is good and plentiful ; some supplies.— [Clerk,
Taylor, Stewart.)
ANARDARA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A town on the border of Afghanistan at the eastern extremity of the Dasht-
i-Na-Ummed. Near it is a depression into which the rivers of the neigh
bourhood run. It is 77 miles from Ahwazonthe Persian border. A direct
road goes nearly due west hence to Birjand. The hills of Anardara can be
seen from Burj-i-Gulvvarda. Farah lies 40 miles east.— [MacGregor,
Stewart.)
ANAU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
An Akhal-Tekke Turkman village and fort beyond the eastern frontier of
Khurasan, 9 miles south-east of Ashkabad. The Kelte Chinar river
debouches eastward into the plains at this point. The Anau pass leading from
Daraghaz to Anau is one of these, through which the Turkmans used to pass
in raids on Persian territory. It is practicable for axbiWevy.—{Petrusevtich,
MacGregor, Stewart, Thompson.)
ANAZAN, or ANIZAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A subdivision of Astarabad forming the western border of that district.—•
[Holmes.)
It is divided from Saddan Rustak by the Khurd Mahala Chai stream. It
is covered with impenetrable forestand traversed by numerous small streams
flowing in deep and muddy beds. It is thinly psopled, and Shah-Kuh
Sawar has scarcely any population, its quota for the Astarabad regiment
being only 130 men.— [Napier.)
ANDARTJKH— Lat. 36° 34' 30% Long. 59° 34/ 30"; Elev.
[Napier ).
A village in Khurasan, 19i miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-
i-Nadm. It contains 50 houses. It is 1| miles from the Darband or pass
of Andarukh.— [Napier, MacGregor.)
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department in India. It was printed by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, India in 1886.
The areas of Persia [Iran] covered are Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustan, Khurasan [Khorāsān], and Sistan. The boundaries of the areas covered by Volume I are as follows: the Afghan border from the River Helmand to Sarakhs in the east; and from there a line north-west to Askhabad, due west to the Atrak, which it follows to the Caspian Sea; then along the sea coast to Ashurada Island; then in a straight line to Shahrud; and from the latter south-east to Tabas hill, Sihkuha, and the Helmand, from where the river first meets the south-east border of Sistan.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements and buildings (forts, hamlets, villages, towns, provinces, and districts); communications (passes, roads, bridges, canals, and halting places); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, springs, wells, fords, valleys, mountains, hills, plains, and bays). Entries include information on history, geography, buildings, population, ethnography, resources, trade, agriculture, and climate.
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 includes the following illustrations: ‘VIEW OF AK-DARBAND.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 12v]; ‘PLAN OF AK-KALA.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 14]; ‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 24]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BASHRÚGAH’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 40v]; ‘ROUGH PLAN OF BÚJNÚRD’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 48]; and ‘BUJNURD, FROM THE S. W.’ [Mss Eur F112/376, f 49v].
It also includes the following inserted papers (folios 51 to 60): a memorandum from the Office of the Quartermaster General in India, Intelligence Branch to Lord Curzon, dated 6 December 1895, forwarding for his information ‘Corrections to Volume I of the Gazetteer of Persia’, consisting of articles on the Nishapur district of the province of Khorasan, and the Shelag river.
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The volume is arranged as follows from the front to the rear: title page; preface; list of authorities consulted; and entries listed in alphabetical order.
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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 388, 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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