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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [150r] (304/722)
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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ample water. It is difficult to estimate the numbers of the tribe ; but,
including nomads, it may amount to 1,500 families, giving a population of
7,000 to 8,000 : these include 800 or 400 tents of nomads.^ This tribe, like
other Kurds, was settled in the Atak by Shah Abbas the great, as a
protection against the Turkumans. After the death of Shah Abbas, the
Kurd settlements participated in the general disorganisation of the country,
and this tribe was forced to recross the mountains; it occupied lands
between Chinaran and Kuchan, and held all the mountains as far as
Daraghaz. The Kiwanlu, though few in numbers, are prosperous, but have
no separate importance. Their country, lladkan, is an appanage of the
government of Mashhad, and their hereditary chief a subordinate official
of the administration.— {Napier.)
KIZIL— ^ r
A branch of the Goklan tribe, inhabiting the left bank of the Gurgan
river.— {Thomson.)
KIZILAK KHALASI— Lat. 87° 0", Long. 56° SS 7 0"; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan on an affluent or the Atrak irom the north.
— {Intelligence Department, War Office.)
KIZIL BAIR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A mountain range in Khurasan, forming part oi the northern province
of the Daraghaz district.— {Petrusevitch.)
KIZILJA— Lat. 37° 27 / 0", Long. 59° 37' U'L Elev. ' [Napier).
A village in the Atak, belonging to Khurasan, 4 miles east or Abivard. it
contains 40 houses of Turkuman subjects of Daraghaz. _ xhe Kizilja branch
of the Tajand river ends at a place called Palwanthi m the Kara Kum
desert.— {MacGregor, Stewart.)
KIZIL KANA— Lat. , Long. _ ; Elev. '•
A valley in northern Khurasan, through which runs one of the northern
affluents of the Atrak xi\ex.—{Petrusevitch.)
KIZIL KIA— Lat. , Long. ; e lev
A place one day’s march south of Sarakhs, whence the waters were turned
into the old canal by the Persian army, which advanced to the Alarv
country in 1860.— {Stewart.) ,
TTT'ZTT, K’OTAL*—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A pass in northern Khurasan, about 27 miles from Daraghaz (Muhammad-
abid), on the road to the Atak. It is easy or asceno and descent.
{Fraser, Napier, MacGregor.)
K A D hffltffl™kce ii/northern Khurasan 91* miies^rom Askabad, on the
road to Sarakhs. It appears to be also known as Naurak. -{Stewait.)
K A^Kge7n L the Daraghaz dfstriit of KhAs^L miles so'uth of Abivard.
— {Stewart.)
KOLMABCT— Lat. , Loss. ; Llev. ^ • .
Ruins in SisUn, 2 miles south-west of Reshawaran fort There is
very fine mosque here and large cloistered college attached. ( -)
KONEH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^ •
A village of Khurasan, 5 miles north-west of Bajistan.—(Ao^nc.)
# The “ Ked Pass."
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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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