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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [163v] (331/722)
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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KURTABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. \
A little walled village of Shahrud-Biistan, 6 miles east of Shahrdd, on the
road to Maiumai. It has heaps of ruins about it and a patch of green
fields.— {liozario. )
KUBlT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 16 miles from Tabas, on the road to Birjand. It
has water and some supplies. [MacGregor.)
KURJU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Formerly an Akhal Tnrkuman fort, 8 miles south-east of Yangi Kala.—
[MacGregor.)
KURKALIK—Lat. , Long. ; .Elev.
A defile through which the Turkumans pass on raids in the Persian ter
ritory from the Akhal country.— [Thomson.)
KURTARtJ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A stream rising in Shahkuh range south of Astarabad, and flowing in a north
westerly direction near Radkan.— [MacGregor.)
KTJRTJN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 12| miles from Kuchan, on the road to Annan in
the Atak. It has 40 houses.— [Napier.)
KURUZDIH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
Formerly a halting-place halfway between Sharifabad and Rubat-i-Gaz in
Khurasan.— [Stewart.)
KTJSF*— Lat. 32° 47' 30", Long. 58° 48' 0"; Elev. ' [St. John).
A town in Khurasan, situated on the stream of the same name, 23 miles
from Birjand, on the road to Karman. It is a flourishing place; and
supplies are procurable in lai'ge quantities. The Kusf river supplies a
large quantity of water for irrigation, which, though brackish, is quite fit
for this purpose. The town has a karez of good water, which is drawn
from the river higher up.— [Stewart.)
KtJSF*—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A river in Khurasan, having its rise in the mountains between Birjand
and Tun, and losing itself in the desert of Lut. This river has little water,
and the little it has is completely absorbed by the field irrigation of the
district; but its dry bed traverses the entire length of the desert. Water
has never been seen in this bed, in the memory of man. Even in the
most rainy seasons, the current hardly ever goes beyond the limit of
the inhabited portion of the country ; and yet this channel is too deeply
cut in the desert soil to allow of its origin being attributed to some meteoro
logical accident: as, for instance, the passage of a storm torrent. The bed
evidently owes its origin to the gradual and continued action of flowing
water : which leads to the belief that here, as in the north of Central Asia,
the level of rivers and streams has long ago considerably sunk, and that
in consequence the total quantity of sweet water has diminished in this
part of the old world and the desert has enlarged its limits.— [Kha-
nikoff.)
KtJSH DURIH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, 23 miles from Furk in the Turshfz district by a
road to Turbat-i-Haidari. It has a fort in fair repair, about 80 inhabitants,
and many mulberry trees. About 3 cwt. of silk cocoons are yearly produced.
— [Stewart.)
* or “ Khusf.”
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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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