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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [136r] (276/722)
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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On a lower mound, just below the old fort, are the ruins of a mosque with
a tine brick mmar, or pillar, in a good state of preservation. It is built
in two stages, and can be ascended by an interior staircase. The fort of
Karat contains 12.0 inhabitants. Water and firewood in abundance.
r i be Karat Itiid, rising in the pass of the same name, flows into the Hari
Ttiid near Karez.— [Clerk, Stewart.)
KARATAGAiv —XjiVt. , Kong. • Elev.
A river in Khurasan, rising in the Kara Dagh mountains, some 50 miles
north of Mashhad, and, flowing from west to east to the north of the
stronghold of Kalat-i-Nadiri, forces its way through the Muzdaran range
by a winding defile nearly 5 miles long. This gorge opens on a plain on
which, at a distance of 17 miles from the outlet, lie the scattered ruins of
Megnih. The Karatagan loses itself in a swamp about 10 miles beyond
M egni h.—( Napier, Peirusevit ch .)
KARATAGAN— Lat. 86 u 51' 10", Long. 60° 16' 0"; Elev.
[Napier ].
A village in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district in Khurasan, and to the east of
the stronghold of that name. It contains less than one hundred houses.
Water and supplies. There are two roads from this village into Kalat,.—
one goes outside the stronghold to the south for about 7 farsakhs, and is level
and good ; another, by Kushtani and the Band-i-l)ukhtar. There is also
a road in the opposite direction to Mashhad.— [MacGregor.)
KARAWUL— Lat. , Long. ;Elev. '.
A stream in northern Khurasan, which drains the Kalpush ridge to the
west, falling into the Gurgan river.— [Napier.)
KARAWUL—Lat. 38° 25' 0", Long. 57° 8' 0" ; Elev. ' [Stewart).
A peak in the Kopet Dagh range of the Alburz mountains.— [Stewart.)
KARAWUL KHAN A— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The third stage from Mashhad on the road to Marv. It is deserted, but
water is procurable.— [Baud Khan.)
KARDARBAND —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
An uninhabited fort, with water, in Khurasan, on the road from Sa-
rakhs to Marv.— [Baud Khan.)
KARDCHTJ—Lat. 37° 33' 0", Long. 57° 20' 0"; Elkv.
A village in northern Khurasan, 5 miles north of Bujnurd.-— [Intelligence
Department, iVar Office.)
KARDIH— Lat. 36° 39' 0" , Long. 59° 41' 30" ; Elev. 5,000' [St. John).
A small village in Khurasan, 23 miles north of Mashhad, on the road to
Kalat-i-Nadin. It is situated in a small valley, running north and south
2 miles and about f of a mile broad; the whole covered with culti
vation and gardens. The village is at the north end, near the Darband
of Al, and contains only some 30 houses of Kurban Turks, sent here by
Shah Abbas. It is, however, the residence of the chief of the small sub
division of Chulai, which extends from Andarukh to Harkat, and contains
10 villages, among which the principal are Marrush, Bulghur, Sij, Al,
Harkat, and Gush. The climate is said to be more severe than that of
Mashhad. Supplies are procurable at Kardih in abundance, notice being
given.— [MacGregor, Napier.)
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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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