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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [93v] (191/722)
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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GHAZ (or Gez) — Lat. 30° 46' 40', Long. 54° S' 10"; Elev.
A village in the Astarabad Bay, near the south shore of the Caspian, 23 miles
west of Astarabad, 4 miles from Ghaz Bandar. It is a large straggling
village of 300 houses. Eastwick says ot it, ‘‘A more pestiferous jungle den
can hardly be imagined/’— (Eastwic/c.)
-Lat.
Long.
GHAZ (or GEZ) BANDAR, or PERWALE.
Elev.
A post in the Astarabad Bay on the south-east corner of the Caspian Sea,
27 miles west of Astarabad. It is really but a small village on the sea beach,
consisting of about 20 wooden houses, which look as if they had been built
from packing cases, inhabited chiefly by merchants and custom-house
officials. There are some Russian subjects, Armenians chiefly, who are
engaged in a gradually increasing business. Exports are put on board
Russian ships, as Persians are not allowed to have any vessels on the sea
that washes their northern shores. The ships are mostly schooners or sailing
vessels. Ghaz is the only port on the south coast into which vessels
larger than steam tugs or small coasting craft can enter. It has, owing to
the neighbouring naval station of Ashurada, become practically Russian.
The Russian maintain three war steamers for the protection of Russian settleis
and of sailing vessels from Astrakhan from the attacks of Turkman pirates.
The pier is a wretchedly constructed and very dangerous looking affair,
running out into water deep enough for a ship’s boat to come along. The
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
is built on a good plan, and might be made comfortable.
Large quantities of merchandize are landed at Ghaz for the Khurasan market,
and likewise exported to Russia and Turkey, that from Astarabad, Skahrud,
and Mashhad converging here. The best and most numerous steam vessels
of those that call at Ghaz belong to the Kafkas Merkure Company. Ghaz
might with improved roads compete for a time with Rasht for some of the
Tehran trade; but the completion of the railways from Tehran to Rasht,
and Rasht to Baku, would undoubtedly tend to increase the importance of
Anzali as compared with Ghaz. Goods destined for Constantinople and
Western Europe are shipped at Ghaz for Baku, whence they are forwarded
by road to Tiflis.
In 1882, the Collector anticipated the revenue from customs dues would
amount at Ghaz to 26,000 tumans. The table below for the year ending
22nd March 1881 exhibits fairly the exported trade of. Ghaz :—
Exports.
Silk
Inferior silk
Cotton
Wool
Furs and skin
Dry fruits
Lead
Rice
Corn, &c....
Miscellaneous
Total
lb.
Imports.
lb.
... 40,000
Sugar
1,800
... 2.800
Unrefined sugar
670
... 4,000
Tea
1,200
... 4,000
Inferior tea...
12,000
... 21,200
Piece-goods ...
256,000
8,000
Iron
3,600
3,500
Copper
1,950
180
Steel
1,500
200
Cast iron utensils
800
... 2,400
Crockery and hardware ...
Brass utensils
7,520
6)0
... 86,280
Total
287,640
[Eastwic/c, Baker, Stewart, MacGregor, Lovett.)
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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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