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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [126r] (256/722)
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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KALANDA.RABAD — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, in the Khaf buluk of Turbat-i-Haidan.— [Bel-
lew.)
KALA NTJR VARDI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Formerly an Akhal Turkuman fort, 20 miles north-west of Gok-Tapa on
the line to Kizil-Arvat.— [MacGregor.)
KALA PAlN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
An outwork of Birjand, situated at the end of a spur west of that town. It
is a square of 100 yards, with walls 40 feet high, built on the riverbank, which
is scarped to the north, and the approach to it all round is difficult and steep.
If put into good repair, the place might offer a respectable resistance. At
present there is cover close up to it, and the walls and loopholes are in such
a state, that the former could not be manned. About 1,500 yards to the east
on a hill above the village is an excellent site for a battery, which would com
mand the fort. The water-supply is precarious, being dependent on good
rain.— ( MacGregor.)
KALA SAFlD*— Lat. , Long. ,• Elev.
A fortified village in Khurasan, about 40 miles south of Mashhad and 2
miles west of Rubat-i-Safid.— (Bellew.)
KALA SAFID*— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village about 63 miles from Kain on the i’oad to Turbat-i-Haidan, between
Kakh and Zibad. The valley in which it is situated is exceedingly fertile.—
[llozario.)
KALA SHADILTJKA—Lat. , Long. ;Elev.
A fort in Khurasan, on the road from Mashhad to Marv, 52 miles from the
former.— [War Office Report on Persia, Part II, Route 159.)
KALAT— Lat. • , Long. ; Elev. '.
A larqn village in the Shahrud buluk of the Shahrud-i-Bustan district. It is
situated on the eastern shoulder of Khushilak, and contains 200 houses.—
[Napier.)
KALAT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A small village in Khurasan, about 15 miles from Khaf, on the road to
Gunabad.— [KhaniJcoff.)
KALAT— Lat. 34° 12' 13"; Long. 58° 29' 30" ; Elev. ' [Lentz).
A village in Khurasan, 9 miles from Kakh, on the road to Mashhad. It
contains some 130 houses and is charmingly situated on a high hill; it lies
in a semi-circle of gardens, watered by numerous streams from the heights
above. Numerous fruit trees, such as the walnut, mulberry, peach, apricot,
pomegranate, vine, grow here in rich luxuriance. Opium for the market at
Yazd^is extensively cultivated in the neighbouring valley, as well as cotton.
The inhabitants are Persians ; and there are a few houses of a tribe called
Zanyin. An old fort commands the village; but being in ruins, itself
commanded at close range, and its water-supply being easily stopped, it
has no strength whatever.— [Bellew, Goldsmid, MacGregor.)
KALATA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A "roup of villages in the Sarhad buluk of the Shahrud district. The
name means “ tlnfhamlets,” of which there are five, viz., —Kuhun, Bikaran,
Yunistan, Askarabad, and Kurdabad. It is situated 47 miles from Sharif-
abad, on the road to Shahrud, from which it is distant 54 miles.
* The “ White Fort.”
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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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