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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [319r] (644/722)
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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SALARI—-
A subdivision of the Faimuri Aimaks^ with their locale from Yazdan to
Khaf and the Taimuri frontier.— [Thomson.)
SALIG-— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A name of the Eiruza mountain, on the road between Bujnurd and Jaiarm
in northern Khurasan. J ’
A high plateau connects the massive-looking Kuh-Salig and the lofty,
rugged peak of Aladagh. Eiruza lies at the foot of the former. It is also
known as the “ Kuh-i-TurgaA— {Napier.)
SALKAR— -Lat. 36° 19' O'", Long. 56° 55' 40"; Elev. ' {Napier).
A village in Khurasan, about 20 miles from Mazinan, on the road from
Shahrud to Nishapur. It is a fine village, with many gardens.—(Jfac-
Gregor.)
SALMI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. , .
A village of. Khurasan, situated on the borders of the desert of Lut, on the
road from Birgand to Karwan.— {KJidnikoff.)
SALMIDASHT— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, lying east of the road between Abdulabad and
Turbat-i-Haidan.— {Bellew.)
SALOR—
A powerful tribe of Turkumans, formerly inhabiting the tract about Marv.
Twenty families of them in 1881 migrated to Baghbaghu. A large body of
this tribe in 1880 left the Tekke country, entered Persia, and were settled
at Zurabad and near the Kashaf Rud. In 1832, after the capture of the
old town of Sarakhs by Abbas Mirza, a portion of the Salors, to whom
that town belonged, were settled near Zurabad. But when the Tekke Turku
mans in the Marv country became powerful, they found these Salors settled
in Persia a thorn in their side; and during the period of the great Persian
famine of 1871 the whole of the Salors settled at Zurabad and in its
neighbourhood were, partly by force and partly by persuasion, moved off and
settled in the Marv country along the Murghab river. The tribe was
broken up and divided among the different sections of the Marv Tekke.
They do not appear to have found their position, as a subordinate tribe, a very
pleasant one; and in 1881 about 1,500 families of them came back to Persia-,
and the majority have settled near Zurabad. Some have settled at Ak-Dar-
band on the Kashaf Rud, and some within 13 miles of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jami,
at a place called Nflabad. A fine fort has been built at Zurabad by the
Persians, and a garrison quartered there to keep the Salor Turkumans in order.
The Salor Turkumans settled in Persia are said not to be very contented.
Napier speaks of the Salor as a small tribe, appearing to have no separate
political existence.
They are renowned for their bravery and cruelty, insomuch that any
deed of unusual barbarity is at once attributed to them. They number now
4,000 families, and are to be found scattered along both banks of the
Murghab, together with the Sarik, with whom also they appear to act in
conjunction in matters relating to their common neighbours.— {Napier,
Stephen, Stewart.)
SALU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A small hamlet in Khurasan, on the road between Pusht-i-Badam and
Nishapur, and 39 miles from Dih-Nau-Band. A little wheat is grown here,
and there is sweet water.— {Gill.)
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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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