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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [180v] (365/722)
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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314
This is one of the only two points on the road from Lutfabad to Sarakhs
where there is water, of which, according- to M. Lessar, a Russian en«ine'er
who started in 1883 on a surveying expedition along the Ataks^ there
is a continual and plentiful supply.— [Petrusevitch , Napier, Stephens.)
MEHRlZ —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place in Khurasan, 63 miles north-east of Bh-jand, on the road to
Ghurian (Afghanistan) via Daraksh and Oharakhs.— {MacGregor.)
MIANABAD—Lat. 37° 26' 0", Long. 59° 10' 0" ; Elev. ' {Stewart).
A small village in northern Khurasan in the district of Daraghaz, about 13
miles north-north-east of Muhammadabad, on the road to Lutfabad aud
the Atak.— {Stewart.)
MIANABAD*— -Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A large village in Khurasan, 73 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Bup
nurd, and about the same distance from Nishapur. It has water, fuel
supplies, and forage in abundance.— {Napier, MacGregor.)
MiANABAD—LaL , Long. ; Elev.
One of the principal villages in the district of Isfaram, Khurasan. It has
100 houses. 1,000 families of Hazaras from Herat were settled here in
1857. It has water and supplies.-—(iVaywr.)
MIANCHUf— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, about 55 miles from Birjand, on the road to Tun.—
{MacGregor.)
MIANDARAJ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village in the province of Astarabad, 16 miles from the town of
Astarabad, on the road to Samnan by Chahar-Dih. It is prettily situated in
a valley on the banks of a small stream, and belongs to the Shaikh-ul-
Islam at Astarabad. The houses are badly built; and the inhabitants
subsist chiefly by cultivating rice. Cotton is also produced here. The
village contains about 40 houses, and is divided into two parts,—one nearer
the foot of the hills than the other.— {Holmes.)
MIANDASHT—Lat. 35° 35' 0", Long, 59° 17' 0"; Elev. '{Napier).
A caravansarai in Khurasan, 22 miles from Turbat-i-Haidan, on the road
to Mashhad.'— {Napier, St&wart.)
MIANDASHT— Lat. 36° 25' 55", Long. 56° 2' 45"; Elev. 4,163k
A halting-place in Khurasan, 62 miles east of Shahrud, and 150 miles
west of Nishapur. The water here is brackish. The old sarai is partially in
ruins, but a new sarai has been built—a very defensible and solid build-
ing chat could not be taken without artillery, if properly defended.
Water is got from a reservoir outside the sarai. Supplies are very
scanty. Ciose on the left of the sarai is a small walled village, square with
bastions the angles, containing about three houses, with about 30 inhab
itants. It is surrounded by a wall and dry ditch on three sides, the fourth
being connected with the caravansarai.
This foit is garrisoned by about 40 or 50 matchlockmen, who receive the
unusually good pay of 100 tumans (about £40) a year. The water is small
in quantity and bad.
There is no cultivation. The two or three gardens, which the inhabitants
have, aie at the foot of some mountains two hours’ distant, where there is
f Probably “ Mianju,”
* The “ Midway City. 55
“ Mid-stream. 55 j
$ “ Mid-valley. ;
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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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