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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [107r] (218/722)
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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HTjSATNABAD—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A spring with a small garden, but without habitation, 15 miles from Faulad
Mahala and 169 from Tehran, on the road to Shahrud via Firuz-Kuhi. It
is a good camping ground.— [Napier.)
HtfSAINABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Eastern Khurasan, about 16 miles east of Shaughan, on the
road from Khaf to Ghurian.— [Stewart.)
LTjS AINA BAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the principal villages of the Jam district of Eastern Khurasan.—
[MacGregor.)
HTJSAINABAD— Lat. 32° 29'0", Long. 60° 10'50"; Elev. 418
[St. John).
A village in Khurasan, 66 miles south-east of Birjand, on the road to
Sistan. It is neatly built and surrounded by a wall having a round bastion
at each of its four corners, and a turret over the gateway. Its inhabitants
consist of some thirty families, of whom half are Shiahs and half Sums.
The soil, though gravelly, is very productive, yielding excellent crops of wheat
and barley. The water-supply is from a kandt or underground channel,
and, though clear and fresh to look at, is very brackish to the taste. A
spring of sweet water is to be found at the foot of the hills across the plains
to the east, at the site of an ancient castle called Kaldt-i-Kaimab [Fort of
perpetual vmter). The climate in the valley of Husainabad is described
as delightfully pure and invigorating, though very cold in the winter, when
a great deal of snow falls.— [Goldtmid, Euan-Smith, Bellew.)
HUSAINABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, about 11 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Sarakhs.
It is prettily situated in the slope of a brown, stony ridge in the midst of
fine plantations of poplars, and extensive vineyards.— [MacGregor.)
H(JSAINABAD—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A hamlet in the Jagatai mountains, Khurasan. It has only one stream of
brackish water, and is the last village in the district of Juvain or Jagatai in
that direction.— [Napier.)
HTjS AlNABAl)—L at. , Long. ^ ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, 29 miles from Nishapur, on the road to Yazd. It
contains 30 or 40 houses situated on the bank of a small stieam of salt
water. Sweet water is procurable from a ham, 3 or 4 miles distant. When
that supply fails, as it does in the summer, the people drink the salt water.
There is a limited amount of supplies obtainable.— [MacGregor, Gilt.)
HUSAINABAD— Lat. 37° 23' 20", Long. 57° 51' 30"; Elev.
[Napier).
A village in Northern Khurasan, on the left bank of the Atrak, about 5
miles west of Shirvan. It possesses fine groves and vineyards, and about
100 houses.— [Napier, MacGregor.)
HE S AINAB AD*— Lat. 37* 52' 0", Long. 57° 40' 0", Elev.
[Intelligence Department, War Office).
A village in Northern Khurasan situated in the valley of the Shinn Lhai.
— [Intelligence Department, War Office.)
Possibly identical with the preceding.
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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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