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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [140r] (284/722)
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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procurable. The ruins and slag of copper furnaces in the neighbourhood
speak to the mineral wealth of the district. Gold is said to exist in the
Zarkuh mountains, 20 miles distant.— {Stewart.)
KHAR, TL 1 RAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A buluk of Shahrud-o-Bustan district to the east of Biarjumand. It con
sists of a desert tract with seven or eight hamlets, watered by springs from
the low ridges on the edge of the desert. The Turshm road passes through
the villages of Khar and Turan. Beyond the briluk to the east lies only
a single large village Durunib, about 20 miles from the town of Turshiz.
Its inhabitants are said to be of pure Persian descent.— {Napier.)
KHAR TURAN— Lat. , Long. • Elev.
The name given to a low range of hills in the same locality as above, on
the western border of the Turshiz district.— {Napier.)
KHAR-ULTJN—Lat. 38° 5' O' 7 , Long. 55° 26' 0"; Elev.
A ford over the Sumbar about 15 miles below that of Duz-Ulun.— {Intel
ligence Department, JFar Office.)
KHARWAJ— Lat. 33° 36' 0", Long. 59° 5' 0"; Elev. ' {St. John).
A village in Khurasan situated on the northern side of the Gudar or
pass of Khanik, about 8 miles south of Kam. It is a flourishing village
of eighty or ninety houses. The people are chiefly Saiyids, and have a
decidedly Tatar cast of features. They possess fruit gardens and fields
of saffron and grain, as also wool-producing cattle. Being of patrician
race, they scorn manual labour, and-have it performed by men-servants of
a lower order. This village suffered greatly in the famine of 1870-72.—*
{Goldsmid, Bellow, Rozario.)
KHASANAK— Lat. - , Long. ' ; Elev. ^
A village in Khurasan, 18 miles from Kalandarabad and 2 miles west
of the road from Mashhad to Herat.— {Khanikoff.)
KHASRlJ— Lat. 37° 22' O'", Long. 59° 25' 30" ; Elev. ' {Stewart).
A village in the Atak district of Khurasan, 5 miles from Abivard on the
road to Daraghaz. It contains some 100 houses of Turkurnan subjects
of Daraghaz, and has water and supplies.— [MacGregor.)
KHAUF— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^
A mountain range in Khurasan between Kariz and Mashhad.— {Mac
Gregor.)
KHAUR— Lat. 36° 36' 0", Long. 60° 12' 0"; Elev. '{Napier).
A village pass in Khurasan, on the road from Mashhad to Kalat-i-Nadin
by Kuratayan. The road here is very difficult and stony. The village con
tains some 100 houses ; it lies at the head of the Ciiacna valley, 33
miles by road from Kalat. The stream from which the pass takes its name
runs from west to east; and after passing through a rocky fissure one-third
of a mile in length, loses itself in a swamp 20 miles beyond new
Chacha.— {MacGregor, Petrusevitch.)
KHAWAR —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan about 14- miles from Nishapur on the left of the
road to Mashhad. It is situated at the foot or a range of hills, which
takes its name from the village.—(ANAa>.)
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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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