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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [133r] (270/722)
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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KALPtfSH— Lat. 37° 12' 0", Long. 56° 5' 0"; Elev.
An elevated plateau in the eastern Alburz mountains, 25 miles north-west
of Jajarm, and south-east of Gurgan. It is well wooded and watered, and
is fertile ; it measures 10 or 12 by 6 or 8 miles.— (Napier.)
KALTA CHANAR— Lat. 37° 46' 0", Long. 56° 45' O''; Elev.
The site of a large deserted village in northern Khurasan, on the road
from Bujnurd to Kara Kala, and about 45 miles distant from the former
town.'— (Napier.)
KALTA CHANAR— Lat. 37° 36' 0", Long. 58° 29'0" ; Elev.
A cluster of Turkuman villages, three in number, all fortified, and
situated on the stream that flows from Durangar to Annau. They belong
to the Persian province of Daraghaz in northern Khurasan.— (Baker, Gill.)
There are altogether about 100 houses of Sunnis—a remnant of the
populations of the old towns of the Atak, viz., Mihna, Annau, Askabad.
— (Napier.) .
A Persian official is stationed here, and is supposed to examine foreigner’s
passports; but nothing is gained by this measure, as only a few Armenian
traders pass along this route. There is no one at Baba Durmaz ; and
Russians are allowed to pass freely through Lutfabad without questions
being asked.
The Kalta Chanar valley, in which the villages are situated, contains seven
hamlets altogether, and forms one of the buluks of Daraghaz. It is formed
by the junction of the Kopet Dagh and the Zar-i-Kuh, and terminates
in a gorge through which rushes the Kalta Chanar stream, which flows to
Annau. The total length of the valley is 8 miles.— (Baker, Gill, Napier,
Con die Stephens, Petrusevitch.)
KALUDAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A walled village in Khurasan, containing 300 houses on the road from
Nishapur to Earah, 4 stages from the former.— (War Office Report on
Persia, Part II, Route 176.)
KAMA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '•
A village in Khurasan, 12 miles north of Turbat-i-Haidarf, on the road
to Mashhad.— (MacGregor.)
KAMAISTAN— Lat. 36° 33' 50", Long. 57° 19' 0"; Elev. 4,000'._
A small village in Khurasan, situated in the Jagatai mountains, on the
road from Shahrud to Mashhad by Jagatai. Prior to the famine years of
1870-72, it contained 150 houses and a population of 700 or 800 ; but
depending for its water-supply on one of the mountain streams, and
having no karez water, it was entirely depopulated. An amil, or
collector, has been settled in the village, to prevent a fresh desertion of
the desolate ruins, and to bring it into a revenue-paying condition. It
produces good crops of wheat and barley, though the water-supply is
scanty.— (Napier.)
KAMI H—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A hamlet of Khurasan in the Kakh buluk, which is said to be the richest
in the Tabas province. It contains some 20 houses, and is situated on the
road from Kakh to Bajistan. Between the latter town and Kamih, a dis
tance of 14 miles, there is a scarcity of water. (Belleio.)
KAMlH BALA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in Khurasan, 16 miles from Turbat-i-Haidari, on a load thence to
Mashhad. This is an easier pass than that of Gudar-i-Baidar on the
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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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