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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [103v] (211/722)
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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be attributed to the bunding o£ the Helmand, but principally to the
gradual decrease in the rainfall during the late years. There can
be no doubt, from the character of the plain of Sistan, the whole must
have at one time been an enormous lake, till the sedimentary deposits
altered levels and limited it to the present site of the Hamun. This name
is also given in Sfstan to any depressions of the surface in which water
collects.—- (Rozario.)
HAMZA HASAN— Lit. , Lo^g. ; Elev.
A small village in Azarbaian, on the borders of the Usheru and Sulduz
districts, separated from the latter by rising ground.— [Travers.)
HANIAKTJH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A mountain range in Khurasan, north-west of Yazdun, on the Afghan
frontier. It runs east and west.— [MacGregor.)
H API ABAC— Lat. , Long. ; Elkv.
A village of five houses in Khurasan, about a mile from Zibad, on the road
from Kak to Turbat-i-Haidari.— [tiozario.)
HAKAR— Lat. 38° O'0", Long. 57^ O'0"; Elev. eeet. [Napier)
A plateau in Kurdish Khurasan, about TO miles north-west of Bujnurd.—
[Napier.)
HARIGr—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in North-Eastern Khurasan. It is situated in a fertile valley be
tween two ranges of mountains, close to the large flourishing village of Lawa,
which is 13 miles from Shaughan, on the road from Khaf to Mashhad.—
[Stewart.)
HARI-RUD, or AB-I-HERAT— Lat. 36° 0' 0", Long. 61° ‘ W 0";
Elev. ' ( Walker)
A river on the north-east frontier of Persia, which forms the boundary
between that country and Afghanistan from Pul-i-Khatun to Tuman Agha.
Below Pul-i-Khatun this river is called the Tajand.
Condie Stephens, writing in 1882, says u that if a bund was made at Sar-
rakhs, the Hari-Rud could be made to run a distance of 30 miles in the direc
tion of Marv, but that it would take some months before it reached Chacha-
kum, about 35 miles from Marv. This was possible, as the Persians had done
so in their expedition to Marv. It was supposed that a party of 400
Russians had proceeded to Sarakhs for that purpose.— [Napier, MacGregor,
Condie Stephens.)
HARKAT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Chulai subdivision of Northern Khurasan.— [MacGregor)
harLnIs—
A tribe who are said to reside near Tun in Khurasan, Persia. They are of
Arab origin, having been settled here by Shah Abbas. They retain but little
of the appearance and maimers of their ancestors.
HASAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Khaf buluk of the Turbat-i-Haldari district of Khurasan.
— [Bellew) .
HASANABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 17 miles from Farfdun, on the road to Nishapur. It
has water and supplies.— [MacGregor.)
Note .—For further information, see “ Afghanistan. ”
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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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