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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [20r] (44/722)
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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ARGHAN— Rat. ) Long. j Eley. 1
A village in Khurasan, 13 miles from Sultanabad (Turslnz), to the south of
the road from Turshiz to Shahrud.— {Tat/lor.)
ARGHAWAN SHAH —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A. small village in the valley of Kalat-i-Nadiri, Khurasan. A gate of
Kalat-i-Nadiri also is called the Arghawan (or Arghan) Shah Gate! The
Kalat stream enters Kalat through the Arghavvan Shah openino- to the
district.— [MacGregor, JSapier, Peirusevitch.)
ARG-I-MUHAMMAD KHAN —Lat. , Long. ; Ele.v.
A village 7 miles from Bujnurd, in Northern Khurasan, on the road to Jah
J arm.— (Napier.)
ARIGEH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting place in Azarbaijan, three stages north of Ardabil, on the road
to Arlandez.— (Moore.)
ARIK— -Lat. , Long. ; Elev. \
The name given by the Turkmans to a peak near Garmak on the eastern
frontier of Khurasan. It is called by the Persians Doshakh (^. ?;.), and is
said to be visible for a long distance.— (Thomson.)
ARISHK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Zirik subdivision of Tabbas in Khurasan. It lies 14 miles
south of Bashrugah on the road to Karman. It has water and supplies.—-
(MacGregor.)
ARJUMAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Narmashir district of Karman, south-west of Azizabad, on
the road from Bam to Bampur.— (Goldamid.)
ARMIA J ALLAN AT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A mountain range south of the road from Maiomai to Shahrud. From the
west of Shahrud, and on the road to Dili Mulla, the termination of the range
may be seen, with a wide expanse of salt desert beyond.— (Rozario.)
ARMIAN— Lat. 36° 2P 0", Long. 55° 27' 10"; Elev. 5,360' (Napier).
A village in Khurasan on the Shahrud-Mashhad road. It is situated in a
glen of the hills enclosing the plain of Maiomai to the south, from the base
of which issues a fine spring, which serves to water the village with its
numerous orchards and gardens, and about a couple of hundred acres of corn-
land. The aralile land has a rich soil and produces fine crops and good
fruit. Tobacco of good quality is also grown. The village has 40 houses
well walled in. The people are Arabs ; they have lost their language and all
recollection of their origin, but there are sufficient traces left in the patois
they speak to prove their southern origin.— (Bellew, Napier.)
ARSABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, on the left bank of the Ab-i-Mashhad or Kashaf
Rud, and 1 mile below the ford on the Sarakhs road. The village of
Kala Aulang is opposite to it on the right bank of the river.— (MacGregor?)
ARTIAN— Lat. 37° 23' 0", Long. 58° 59' 0"; Elev. ' (Stewart).
A village in the Daraghaz province of Khurasan, 2 miles north by west of
Muhammadabad.— (MacGregor, Stewart.)
ARTIAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village lying about 1 mile nearly north of Muhammadabad in the Laraghaz
district of North-Eastern Khurasan.— (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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