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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [164v] (333/722)
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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LABADGAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A town in Khurasan, about 10 miles north-east of Mashhad, on the road to
Chacha. It is utterly deserted ; but water is found there.— {Baud Khdn.)
LAHNO— Lat. , Long. ; Eley.
A villag-e in Khurasan, to the northward of Duruh, on the extreme eastern
inhabited frontier. It has an old fort, with some houses built outside; the
inhabitants numbering- about 300. It is a place of some little importance,
as it has a number of hamlets depending on it. Including the hamlets,
it has about 800 inhabitants altogether; but it is a wretched, ruined place.
Some of the inhabitants live at Haftad Kud {([. v.), 9 miles off, for a por
tion of the year and cultivate.— [Stewart.)
LAlM— Lat. 37° 3 7 0"; Long. 59° 26' 40 ,/ ; Elev. ' [Napier).
A ruined village in the Kurd district of Khurasan, on the road from Kalat-
i-Nadiri to Daraghaz. A fine mountain river dashes past the village into the
plains to the north, and eventually waters the village of Abivard.— [Baker )
Gill.)
LAIM SL" —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A stream in the Kopet Dagh range, Khurasan, which rises near the village
of Laim and flows northward to the Atak, forming the boundary between
Kalat and Daraghaz.— [Napier.)
LAKI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A range of hills in Khurasan, which separates the hululc of Nimbuluk in
the district of Kam from the plain of GAnabad.~--(f?<?^w.)
LANGAR*— Lat. 35° 23' 7", Long. 60° SI' Vo"; Elev. ' [Lentz).
Extensive ruins in Khurasan, 85 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Herat.
They are said to extend for several miles. Two miles beyond is the
modem village and fort of Langar. Its name is derived from a tradition of
the country, that formerly a great portion of the plain was inundated, and
that Langar then served as a shelter for the boats. The villagers are almost
all of the sect of Nakhsbandi—a sect founded in the eighth century of the
Hijra by the celebrated Shaikh Biha-ud-din, Nakshband, who was born in
718, and died and was buried near Bukhara in 791 Hijra.— [Taylor, Clerk,
Hardy, Khanilcoff.)
LANGAR— Lat. 37° 31/ 6"; Long. 57° 14/ O''; Elev. ' [Stewart).
A village in the Bujnurd province of Khurasan, about 8 miles north-west of
the town of Bujnurd.— [Stewart.)
LANGARAK, on INAYATABAD— Lat. Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place, 22 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Sarakhs by
Ak-Darband. There is no village here ; but fuel, forage, and water are
abundant. This spot lies in the valley of the Kashaf Rud, which here is
about 2 miles broad, and has a fine sketch of good soil capable of being
cultivated.— (Mac Greg or.)
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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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