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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [88v] (181/722)
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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FARtf KHl— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A villu^o in the Biahannlc district of Trnk Ajarm, aMiut 10 miles from
Biabanak, on the road to Samnan. It contains about 40 houses. Water and
a few supplies procurable.— [MacGregor.)
FARllMAD—L at. 36° 29' 50", Long. 56° 41/ 10"; Elev.
[Napier ).
A village and bulM: in the district of Shahrud. It was formerly a small
town, but suffered severely from the famine years of 1870—72, and in 1874
had only 200 houses inhabited. Large flocks of sheep and goats are fed on
the plains around the village. The inhabitants, a mixture of Arab and
A jami, furnish 50 men to the regiment of the district, and pay an annual
revenue of 1,000 tumans and 300 kharwars of grain. The plateau on
which it stands is wide and has fine trap soil; it is watered by a stream which
is sometimes dry for several consecutive years, and by a karez or underground
watercourse. On the skirts of the village is a picturesque old fort and the
ruins of a very handsome mosque, dating certainly from the Arab invasion.
There is good water here and ample supplies of grain, &c.
The Farumad buluk is a small hilly tract lying across the Kal’a Shur on
the borders of Juvain and Sabzawar. The villages of Farumad and Faruz-
abad and a few small hamlets compose the buluk.— [Napier.)
FAT AH AB AD— La*. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, Persia, second post stage from Mashhad, on the
Herat road. It consists of a small fort with mud walls, and. some poor
huts outside; and is the residence of many Sayyads.— [Felly.)
FATA HABA D—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A small village in the Tun buluk of the district Tabbas, 40 miles from
the town of the latter name, on the road to Nfshapur.— [Belleic,
Stewart)
FAZ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village of Khurasan, 35 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-
N adfri. — ( Kin n eir.)
FAZLABAD—Lat. 37° 22' 0", Long. 58° 48' 0"; Elev.
Stewart).
A village in Northern Khurasan, 15 miles north-west of Muhammadabad, iu
Daraghaz.— [Stewart.)
FAZLMAND— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, Persia, south of Turbat-f-Haidari. It contains about
40 families ; and as it possesses two artificial water-courses of brackish
water, a good deal of ground about it is cultivated. Its inhabitants are
chiefly nomads, with a few Kizilbash peasants. A party of 60 Taimuri
horsemen was formerly stationed here to watch the plundering hordes of the
Turkmans from Merv.— [Forbes.)
FID AW I —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, Persia, close to the town of Sultanabad (Turshiz).-—
[Clerk.)
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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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