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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [99v] (203/722)
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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GtfLtfGlH—L at. 36° 45' 40", Long. 53° 59' 50"; Elev. ' (Nipier).
A village in the province of Astarabad, situated at the junction of the
cross roads to Shahrud and to Ashraf, and on the border of Mazandaran
It is a very strag-gling 1 village, covering not less than 2 to 3 square
miles, and is said to have a population of 4,000 to 5,000 souls. The houses
are of cane and light woodwork, and are usually surrounded with ricks of
hay and straw. The scattered position of the houses is intended as a pre
caution against fire. The distance from the shore to the cultivated margin
of the village is about 8 miles.
A stream of the same name divides the province of Mazandaran from
that of Astarabad.— [Napier).
GULtf-I-SAfJDAGAR*— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass or gorge in Khurasan on the road from Bfrjand to Karman, and
on the borders of the desert of Lut. It is so called from an unfortunate
merchant who was murdered here by the Baluchis at the moment that he
thought himself safe from all danger after successfully crossing the desert.—
( Khanikoff.)
GUMABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village with supplies, 31 miles from Tun, in the Tabbas district of Khurasan,
on the road to Khaf,— see Gambazabad.— [MacGregor.)
GUMBAZ-I-JANG,t or PUST-I-JANG— Lat. , Long.
Elev.
A halting place in the Kakh subdivision of the Tabbas district of Khura
san, 100 miles from Tabbas, on the road to Bfrjand. There is good water
here, but no supplies.— [Bellew, MacGregor.)
GUMBAZ-I-NADIR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Ruins on the west of the road between Daki Dela and Bandar on the
border of Afghanistan and Sistan.— [Bellew.)
GUMBAZ-KATJS.
The Goklan Turkmans inhabit the country from Goli Dagh to Gumbaz,
Kaus, 75 miles distant, north of the Gurgan river, and the Yamut Turkman
from Gumbaz Kaus on the east to Khojih Nefis on the left bank of the south
ern outlet of the Gurgan on the west, all on the northern border of Astarabad
[Thomson?)
GUMBAZ-I-KATdS— Lat. 37° 10' 0", Long. 55° 14' 0"; Elev.
[Napier).
A tower and the ruins of a city in the Goklan Turkman district of the
Astarabad .province, lying about 60 miles north-east of the town of Asta
rabad, and on the high left bank of the Gurgan river. It is one of the
Goklan camps.^— [Napier.)
GTJMESII TAP A (Turkis h) SEREBRANNEI BUGORJ (Russian)—
La/t 37° 5' 38", Long. 53° 34'32"; Elev. ' [Puschin).
A nil and village of the Atabai Yamut Turkmans, situated on the Gurgan
river, about 2 miles from where it debouches into the Caspian. It lies 38
mi es south of the Be lei Bugor or White Hill, and 8b miles north of the
Ashurada light ship. The Turkman aul is situated on the north of the hill,
and includes some 500 Jcibitkas [seepage 2).
* The “ Merchant’s Throat.”
t The “ Dome of Strife.”
t The “ Silver Hills ” iu Turkish and Russian.
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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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