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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [181r] (366/722)
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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a small stream. These gardens are not sufficient to supply the wants of
these few families, who purchase their barley and straw and other supplies
from Maiumai, and resell them at a large profit. Miandasht was formerly
celebrated for its copper utensils. Hay is to be found at some distance
from the present buildings.—( Clerk, Napier, Khanikoff, Bellew.)
MIANDIH*—Lat. 34° 52' 30" Long. 58° 3B' 30 ,/ ; Elev. ' [Walker).
A village in Khurasan, so called from its position midway (man) between
Mashhad and Tabas. It is a collection of about 80 huts round a dila
pidated fort, situated in the desert and almost bare of vegetation. There
is a large ahambdr, or reservoir, near the village.— (Goldsmid, Euan-Smiih
Bellew, 1878.)
MIAN KTJHt—L at. , Long. ' ; Elev.
A small village in northern Khurasan, about 5 miles south of the Allah-u-
Akbar pass, containing some thirty families of Kurds. It is an odd little
place, situated, as its name implies, between hills, and perched on a low
isolated hillock. There is an immense deal of tobacco cultivation about for so
small a place, and abundance of water ; and there seems no reason, except
want of population, why every part of the ground that could be got at by
water should not be cultivated.— (MacGregor.)
MIAN KUH—Lat . , Long. ; Elev.
A range of mountains in north Khurasan, running from Khizar Masjid
to the west, south of the Allah-u-Akbar range. On the north side of
this range in the Tabarik defile lies the source of the Atrak, which first
bears the name of the ‘ Tabarik rivulet/ and then that of < Khuram Dara/—
(Petrusevitch.)
MIAN WILAYAT—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A buluk of the Mashhad district of Khurasan. It lies to the north-west
of Mashhad, comprising the whole width of the plain nearly to China-
ran. This is the most populous and well-cultivated tract in the whole dis
trict, having over 100 villages. It suffered much in the famine of 1870-72.
The people are chiefly Ajam and Turk, with 1,000 tents of Taimuri nomads.
A large number of the villages belong to the shrine of Imam Kiza. The
estimated population of this buluk is 20,000. The revenue is 2,300
tumans cash and 1,700 kharwars grain.— (Napier.)
MIAZNAN—Lat. , Long.. ; Elev.
The name of one of the buluks of the Sabzawar district of Khurasan.
— (Bellew.)
MIHDIABAD—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
One of a cluster of four villages in Khurasan called collectively Chahar-Dih.
They are situated about 10 miles from Tabas, on the road to Yazd, and con
tain altogether about 800 inhabitants.— (Stevoart, Gill.)
MIHDIABAD—Lat. 34° 42' 0", Long. 59° 37' 0"; Elev. y (Na
pier).
A village in Khurasan, 29 miles from Khaf, on the west of the road thence
to Turbat-i-Haidari.— (Taylor.)
MIHIAMBAB—Lat. , Long ; Elev.
A mountain in southern Khurasan, to the south-west of the road through
the desert of Lut from Birjand to Karman. At the foot of the mountain
there is a well of drinkable water.— -(Khanikoff.)
* The “ Midway Village,” showu as “ Mandahi ” in Major-General Walker’s Map, 1881.
f “ Between the hills.”
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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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