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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [89r] (182/722)
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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FIDISK— Lat. , Long. ^ ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan in the Khaf buluk of the district Kain.—
(Bellew.)
FIJRCT —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A small fort in Khurasan, Persia, about 11 miles west of Mashhad, situated
in a cultivated and generally plain country, with many fortified villages
in the vicinity.— (Forster.)
FILL1— Lat. 37° 17' Oh Long. 58° 50' 0"; Elev.
(Stewart).
A village in the Daraghaz, province of Khurasan, about 10 miles west of
Muhammadabad.— (Stewart.)
FINDARISK— Lat. (Fraser) 37° 0' 30", Long. (St. John.) 54° 57'
59’ ; Elev.
A picturesque village in the province of Astarabad on the road from Jah
Jarm to Astarabad, and about 35 miles west of the latter town. It is de
scribed as looking at a distance like a rambling collection of old barns over-
orown with tropical vegetation. A closer inspection, however, shows that
there is much order and regularity in the disposition of the farms, and an
'almost Chinese precision and neatness in ordering the pi’ecincts of each little
homestead. The centre building is usually of two stories; the whole, to the
top of the tiled or more commonly thatched roof, not more than 15 lo 18
feet. The walls, framed with timber, are formed of neatly woven cane-work
plastered inside with mud. A wide eave or verandah runs round the
four sides, forming a covered and well-protected balcony for winter or wet
weather use. A thatch roofed room, raised 25 to 30 feet from the ground
on posts, is used in summer as a sleeping place by the family. The
advantage of sleeping well above the ground in the fever season is
fully recognized ; and the people, even when working or hunting at a
distance from the village, always select some convenient tree, or make a nest
raised on poles some distance from the ground. In winter the loft or plat
form is used as a receptacle for cotton silk, &c. blanking the farm house are
usually two or three long barns with timber posts and walls of the kind vul-
P'arly known as “ wattle and daub. ” Each of these has a padlock, with a
neat fence of split cave ; the straw ricks are well raised from the ground in
cross beams, and in a corner of the enclosure stand three or four gig an ic
barrel-shaped baskets plastered inside with mud, in which wheat and rice
are stored. Each enclosure has its group of orange trees also railed m, am
a few vines. The paddocks are filled with fine cattle, and the well-raised
and drained pathways and extensive cultivated clearings give an appear
ance of comfort and substance : the surplus produce of the village lands
finds its way as far as Jah Jarm and Astarabad, and a large and inereas-
ino’ area is sown with cotton. , „ . i t ■
Findansk is the chief village o£ the Muk of the same name, and contains
about 1,01)0 families, including those of £
MM lies south of that of Katul, and includes the whole belt of toiest as tai
as the Naudih stream, and the lower slopes of Khushyitak. _
It is traversed by several large streams ; the Naudih, the Itamian, and he
Cdarush Uud, feeders of the Gurgan river, ihere are el villages and
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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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- 1 volume (384 folios)
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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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