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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [99r] (202/722)
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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GUJKI —Lat. 36° 25' 0", Long. 59° 55 7 O'''; Elev. ' [Napier).
A large village in Khurasan on the road from Mashhad to Kalat-i-Nadiri
by Karatagan. There is water here, and supplies are procurable.—(Tlac-
Gregor, Stewart.)
GUKCHA —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A post in the Atak, formerly occupied by Akhal Turkmans. It lies about
midway between Kizil-Arvat and Gok Tapa.— [MacGregor.)
GULBINI —Lat. , Long. • Elev. '.
An easy pass over the Tangah range in Northern Khurasan, a few miles
north-east of Jah Jarm, on the road to Saigkas.— [Napier.)
GIJLHAUZ —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '
A well and reservoir without inhabitants on the south-east of Khurasan.
It is 15 miles fiom Charakhs, the last village on the road between Kaiu and
Ghurian. Ghurian is 62 miles distant.— [MacGregor, Stewart.)
GULIABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the province of Astarabad, and 14 miles from the town of
Astaiabad, on the road to Bujnurd by Gurgan. There is water and fuel here,
and abundance of forage and some supplies.— [MacGregor.)
GUL-I-KHATTJN*—Lat. , Long ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 45 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Daraghaz.
It is 7 miles north-north-west of Churiaran.— [Napier.)
GUL-KUNDAN—Lat. 37° 29' 0", Long 59° 2' O'; Elev. ' [Stewart.)
A village in the Daraghaz province of Khurasan, about 5 miles north of
Muhammadabad.— [Stewart.)
GULMAKAN —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A subdivision of the Mashhad district of Khurasan, numbering thirteen small
villages on the MiTabad range, 30 to 40 miles west of Mashhad. The
people are half Kurd nomads of the Hanza Kanlu tribe. The village
population are known as Tajiks, the only people so called in the province.
Its estimated population is 2,000, paying a revenue of 2,500 tumans and 100
kharwars of grain.— [Napier).
GULRAN, or KALABAGH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
An old serai on the border of Afghanistan towards Khurasan. It lies 40
miles from Sarakhs on the road to Kusan, from which it is 32 miles distant.
— [MacGregor.)
G-ULISTANf —Lat. 36° 18'42", Long. 59° 22'0"; Elev. ' [Lentz).
A village in Khurasan, about 14 miles west of Mashhad, built on the
summit of a hill about one mile to the right of the main road. There is a
picturesque fort here. The approach to it is by an avenue of mulberry trees,
one mile and a quarter long, planted by a devout Mashhadi for the benefit
of the pilgrims.— [Clerk,)
GULISTAN— Lat. , Long ; Elev. '.
A small village of 30 houses on the road from Jah Jarm to Astarabad,, and
about 11 miles from the fort of Nardm. From Gulistan or near it there is
a road over a high shoulder of the Khush Ailak Mountain to Bustan. by
which guns have been brought.— [Napier).
* The “ Ladies, Rose.”
f The “Rose Garden.”
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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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