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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [141r] (286/722)
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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KHORDEH AIMAK—
A tribe of Khurasan {q. v.). Its origin is Kurdish, and it was transplanted
by the Saftavians. It then numbered 6,000 families, but is said to have
doubled its numbers.— [Thomson.')
KHtJDAFRID— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Gunabad district of Khurasan.— [Bellew.)
KHTJDAFRlD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Dasht-i-Rukh buldk of the Turbat-i-Haidari district of
Khurasan.— [Bel lew.)
KHUDASHAH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of the hamlets forming the village Sanghas or Chardih in Isfaram,
Bujnurd district. It contains 40 houses, and is situated 1 mile north-west
of Sanghas proper.— [Napier.)
KHULP— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Kain district of Khurasan. Inhabitants nomadic ; supplies
scanty. A kind of odoriferous gum, used as a resist paste in dyeing, is
collected here.— [Stewart.)
KHtJK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A large village of Khurasan in the Tun buiuk of the Tabas province. It
contains 1,800 to 2,000 inhabitants, and is about 30 miles from Birjand
on the road to Tabas, being the first village of the latter district. It
has an old fort; but the village is outside it. On two sides of the
village are steep cliffs, about 20 feet high. At the foot of the cliffs, which
are very abrupt and have only two paths, there is stagnant water in
large pools of considerable depth. Just beyond these pools the ground rises
a little, and on this rising ground the village is built. On a third side of
the village, where there are no cliffs, is a salt marsh of considerable extent—
so that the village would present great difficulties to an attacking force with
out artillery. Good water is obtainable, and supplies in fair quantities.—
[MacGregor, Stewart.)
KHULK VARDI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Kurdish Khurasan on the road between Daraghaz and
Kuchan.— [Mac Gregor.)
KHUN— Lat. ^, Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Ghain* district of Khurasan.— [MacGregor.)
KHTJNIK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 7 miles east of Kain, on the road to Herat. There
are some supplies here, but the water is brackish. A pass in the Gazuk
mountain takes its name from this village.— [MacGregor.)
KHTJR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. k
A group of villages in Khurasan on the road from Yazd to Mshapur, and
21 miles from Badar Askan. It contains 100 houses and the ruins of
an old castle picturesquely situated on the summit of a conical hill. The
principal village is built on steeply sloping ground over the valley, which
is here very narrow and bounded by steep bare mountains.— [Gill.)
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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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