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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [21v] (47/722)
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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Besides the much carefully-fostered bazar, there is a project for a new road
across the Abbas pass, and a railway brought in from the Kizil-Arvat to
Askabad.
The chief inhabitants of Askabad are Akhal Turkmans. These at the
present time are reduced to a state of such extreme poverty, that it is all they
can do to keep body and soul together, and their appeals for assistance
in distress are not worth much consideration. No taxes have yet been impos
ed ; and, save that their favourite pastime of plundering has been prohibited,
they are allowed to do much what they like. Nevertheless, since Gok-Tapa
the male portion of the population have a sullen and injured appearance as
if smarting under the sense of undeserved defeat. Seen wandering about
listlessly, they have all the look of caged eagles.— (See Akkdl.)
ASK ARAB AD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of a group of hamlets in Khurasan, 26 miles east of Magas. No
supplies; water scanty.— {Stewart.)
ASKARIA—Lat. . • , Long.^ ^ ^ ; Elev.
A small fortified village in Khurasan, 3 miles from Mashhad having a
reservoir of indifferent water.— {Taylor, Clerk, Hardy.)
ASPAK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 28 miles from Tabbas, on the road to Birjand. It
has good water and some supplies.— {MacGregor.)
ASP-I-AGHA—Lat. 37° TP 0", Long. 57° 4' 0"; Elev. ' (lutellz-
gencc Department, War Office).
A village in Northern Khurasan on the Garma Khan river.— {Intelligence
Department, War Office.)
ASPWA NlZA*— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
The nam* of a pass and of a camping ground in the province of Astarabad,
on the main road from Shahrud to the town of Astarabad. The camping
ground is open and suitable for a large camp, with a stream and a little culti
vation. The nearest village is Hajiabad, 2 miles to the north.— {Napier.)
ASTAISU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A little river in Shahrud-Bustan on which Astarabad is situated. The
river runs into the Kasaru.— {MacGregor.)
ASTANA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Shahrud-Bustan, about 195 miles from Tehran, near Chash-
mah-i-Ali, on the road from Tehran to Shahrud by Ffruz-Kuh. It possesses
gardens and supplies, and is situated to south of road in a barren rocky glen.
— [Napier.)
A STAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The river in the Astarabad district, on which the town of Astarabad is
situated, and to which it gives its name. It is a considerable river, and is
navigable for a short distance from its mouth in the Caspian.— [Kinneir.)
ASTARABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A province of Persia between lat. 36° 45' 0" and 37° 20 / 0 ,/ and long. 54° and
56°. It is bounded on the north by the Gurgan river, south by the Alburz
mountain and Shahrud district, west by the Caspian and Mazandaran, from
which it is divided by the Gulugah stream, and east by the district of Jah
Jarmand the plateau of Armut Ali. The Turkman tribes north of the Gur
gan own a nominal allegiance to the Shah and to the Governor of Astarabad.
# The “ Horse and Spear.”
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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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