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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [313r] (632/722)
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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is well supplied with water and all that is necessary to make the region
productive and valuable.— {Thomson.)
KAZAN—Lat. , Long. • Elev
A valley in north-east Khurasan, about 24 miles from Mashhad.— [Napier.)
EAZAUJA—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village in the Kakhk buluk of the Tabas district of Khurasan.—
{Bellew.)
RAZDUMBAL—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A village in Khurasan, in the district of Kain, situated in a bend in the
hills south of the Gudar-i-Gud pass.— {Bellew)
RAZGTJ—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A halting-place in Khurasan, 64 miles from Tabas, on the road to Birjand.
There is good water here, but no supplies.— {MacGregor)
RAZtJK—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
The name of some walled vineyards and fruit gardens on the north side
of the village of Ghibk [q. v), Khurasan.— {Bellew)
REHVAND—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 77 miles from Nishapur, on the road to Shahrud.
The village is off the road, but there is a fine sarai standing by itself
on it.'— {Clerk)
RIABAD—Lat. 36° 42' KT, Long. 55° 49' 30"; Elev. 3,367' {Lemm).
A village in Khurasan, on the road from Shahrud to Bujnurd, and about
55 miles from the former town. It is described as “a most wretched place/ 5 •
— {Baker)
RlG-I-AMRANI—L at. , Long. ; Elev. ^
A sandy plain in Khurasan, dividing the district of Kain from that of
Khaf.— {Bellew.)
RlGKtJe—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills in Sistan, crossed on the road between Harut Rud and
Chah-i-Sayak. It is composed of red granite streaked with quartz, in a
hollow on its south slope, in a mass of loose red sand : hence its name “ The
Sandy Hill. 55 — [Bellew)
RlGtJN—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, about 16 miles north of Mashhad. It is situated most
picturesquely on both sides of and at the head of a small valley, bounded
by rounded bare hills, to the summit of which its vineyards reach.— {Mac
Gregor)
RUING—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A defile in Khurasan through the Maisur range of hills leading from the
Nimbuluk plain to that of Gunabad. It leaves the former at its north
east corner.— {Bellew)
RINDAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Sistan, to the right of the road from Boloy to Silyan, on the
southern edge of the Naizar swamp. This is the last habitation of
Sistan proper, which ends at the Naizar.— {Bellew)
RlSHKAR—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Khaf buluk of the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khurasan.
— {Bellew)
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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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