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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [171r] (346/722)
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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twin mountains, which form a landmark for many miles round. This
ridge has its origin in a spur, which, starting from Khush Ailak, bounds
the valley called Pusht-i-Bustan on the south and runs east of Bustan,
and then, turning west, is broken up into more or less disconnected ridges
round Maiumai, where there is an isolated peak rising to a heighc of
6,000 feet above sea-level. It has a good sarai of burnt bricks and a
line of fine, old plane trees. A spring of good water fills the ab-ambdr,
or reservoir, and irrigates a small stretch of corn-land. A detachment of
cavalry under a ‘ yd war/ or major, was stationed here in 1874 for the
protection of the half-dozen villages lying in the skirts of the plain.—
{Napier, MacGregor.)
MAJAK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills in Khurasan. They are skirted by the road from Chah-
i-Sagak to Duruh at about 10 miles from the former place.— {Belleiv.)
MAJAN —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, 40 miles on the road from Birjand to Kirman,
from which it is 215 miles. It is walled, and contains 400 bouses, inhabited
by Persians.— {Ferrier.)
MAJtJSl—
A religious sect in Persia, who are said to worship the cow. They are
also called Gaur Yazdi.— {Ogilvy.)
MAKDTJM— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Atak of Daraghaz, northern Khurasan, in which some
Turkumans of the Alaili tribe are settled.— {Stewart.)
MAKHtJNAK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in eastern Khurasan, 16 miles east of Itiza, on the road to
Anardara in Afghanistan. It is a very wretched place. The people live in
small stone huts, having much the appearance and about the size of dog-ken
nels. They are only about 4 feet high and about the length of a man ; and
whole families live in them. The people are most miserable, and had hardly
any cultivation. Only women and old men were to be seen in the village.
Nothing but grass in the way of supplies can be obtained. The poor
wretches possess nothing. They had been brought from Bukhara by Nadir
Shah and settled there. They have the Usbak type of face. Nearly all the
young men had been taken away by the Amir of Kain to garrison the
border of Sistan. These men receive no pay, and only Iflbs. of wheat a
day as food—barely enough to keep life in them. The Amir insists on i
of the adult males performing this duty. The rest of the able-bodied
men had gone across the frontier into Afghanistan, to earn a little money
by reaping the harvest. Near here are two magnificent mulberry trees of
great age.— {Steivart.)
MAMTALtJ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A fine village of 150 houses in the Katul district of Astarabad. A good
deal of cotton is grown.— {Napier.)
MANA— Lat. , Long._ ; Elev. ^
A large village in the district of Bujnurd, 25 miles from the town of
Bujnurd, on the road to Kara Kala. It contains from 455 to 500 houses,
with the neighbouring hamlets inhabited by Shahdillu Kurds and a few
Turks. Water, fuel, and forage procurable.— {Napier, MacGregor.)
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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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- 1 volume (384 folios)
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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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