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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [35v] (75/722)
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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Opium also is grown in considerablp quantities j but no potatoes 01 cotton are
produced Grapes, figs, pomegranates, apricots, and peaches are cultivated
in the wardens. Wild duck and hubara * (bustard) abound on this plain.—
{Gill.)*
BADBtJBl— LiT. , Long. ; Ei,dv.
A stream in the north of Khurasan, Persia, crossed on the north road from
Mashhad to Astarabad. It is so called from a severe wind which is said to
blow on its banks. It drains into the Kalbash, which passes Jah Jarm and
Bustan.— [Lraser.)
BADKHtfR—L at. 37* l' 0", Long. 58 y 40' 0"; Elk;v.
{Stewart). „ „ -i T t i i
A picturesque village in Kurdish Khurasan, 76 miles from Mashhad, on the
road to Daraghaz. It is situated at the head of a valley and at the southern
entrance of a defile. Its inhabitants are Kuranlu Kurds. — {Napier, Stewart)
BADRASKAND—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.^
A village, 30 miles from Sabzawar, on the road to Tun. Water and sup
plies obtainable.— {MacGregor.)
BADtJN—L at. , Long. ; Elev '.
A village in the Nimbuluk division of the Gham district.—(Aeton)
BADUSHK—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^ '.
A village in the Shahrud plain, quite near Shahrud xtseM.—{MacGregor)
BADWUND—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, about 30 miles from Mashhad, towards Khaf. The
village ^though small, has rich pasture lands and many cattle and horses.
Several of the inhabitants have at different times been carried off and sold
into slavery by the Gomuds.— {Stewart)
BAGDAMUT— Lat. 37° 30' O'', Long. 57° 35' 0"; Elev. ' {Intelli
gence Department, War Office).
A village in Northern Khurasan, about 15 miles east of Bujnurd.— {Intelli
gence Department, War Office).
BAGHAL— Lat. ., Long. ; Llev.
A hamlet of some ten houses on the road from Kuehan to Bujnurd, and about
28 miles from the former town.— {MacGregor.)
BAG HAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village, 4 miles from Sabzawar, on the road to Mashhad.— {Bellew.)
BAGHBAGHU, or Bakbaku—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A place in Khurasan, 50 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Sarakhs. A
few years ago it was entirely uninhabited ; but there are now some 20
families of the Salor tribe, lately driven away from Merv. There is a good
mud fort with a garrison of about 30 men.— {Thomson, MacGregor, Gondie
Stephens.)
BAGHCHAND
Long.
A hamlet in Khurasan, 54 miles from Mashhad and 2 from Wardih, on the
road to Kalat-i-Nadiri. It has five or six houses, a tower on a rocky hill,
a good stream, and some cultivation.— {Napier, MacGregor.)
-{ Napier ), or BEKH-KUND {MacGregor) —Lat.
Elev.
Hubara otis.
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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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