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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [182v] (369/722)
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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l>ase. Towards the south, the valley rises rapidly up to the hills. To the
west, the valley slopes rapidly down‘to Birjand. Its climate is bleak, and in
winter rigorous, snow lying on the ground for about two months’. The
people are a handsome, fair-complexioned race, particularly the women
They are well-clothed, and live comfortably.— (Gold amid, Bellew, Rozario.)
MtJGHAN (Shahrud) — Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village on the Shahrud plain, 1 mile south of Shahrud.—
Gregor.)
MUGBJ —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A pass in ivhurasan over the Maisur hills leading from the Nimhhlhk fn
the Gdnabad valley.— {Bellew.)
MUHAMMADABlD—L at. 37° 19' 30", Long. 58° 59' 40" • Elev ] 200'
{Napier ).
A village in Khurasan, and the chief place in the khanate of Daraghaz. It
is contained within double walls, which enclose about 1,200 houses,'all of the
poorest description. There are two gates to the inner wall—one on the south
called Bala Darwaza, and the other on the north called Pain Darwaza • and
they are connected by a street, with trees down the centre, in which are the
shops of the place. The former town seems to have occupied a space of
oo0 yards by 400, and to have been enclosed within a good wall with
towers at the corners and at every fifty yards in the curtain and these forti
fications still remain Probably, owing to increase of population, a further
space of 50 yards all round has been enclosed ; and the north side is
surrounded by an ordinary wall and a good broad ditch. In the north
west corner of this area is a mound of the height of about 40 feet, lookim,
mnruf nff W Y* a P ortio11 of the 1 »0 yards square,
marked off The regular! y of the streets in Muhammadabad is remarkable
They are la,d out at rrght angles to the walls, and have two main streets,
which meet in the centre, coming from the four points of the compass. The
governor of the district, who resides here, was in 1881 Muhammad Ah'
Khan, who holds the title of ‘ Begler Begi ’> Beg of Bco-h) ““ Shf
The governorship of Daraghaz is hereditary in his famiTy ; and thouo-1, the
Shah occasionally changes the governor, he always appoints a man of this
family, who, besides the title of Begler Begi, holds thi rank of Sarti'p i-Aw!
- ‘ ’ 1 g en 6ial of the fust class in the Persian army. The usual garrison of
Muhammadahad consists of the cavalry, 500 in number, which the o-overnor
is bound to keep up for the defence of the border; hut frequently half a
“ Statl ° ned sometimes 7^“-
MUHAMMADABAD—Lat. Long e
whthTis n 3fmUef 11 ItA'^'o T ‘V ^ fr0m Sistan, ftmn
c It is miles. It is walled, and contains 100 bouses with 2() tents
m the environs, inhabited by Arabs—
MUHAMMADABAD—Lat. , Long. • Elev
A village in Khurasan, 45 miles east of TYira ^
There is water and also supplies here.—{MacGregor.) ^ ^ ^ Bll ' ]and -
MUHAMMADABAD*—Lat. Lonp t' 1
A village in Khurasan, about 52 miles north-west of
cattle TOn The S little ‘cdtivation considerable herds of
is cnietiy cotton. There is a water-
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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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