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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [322v] (651/722)
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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for they are all mixed up together in the several village communities. The
latter, however, it is admitted, are by far the most numerous. I am
inclined to fix the Sarbandis in Sfstan at less than 4,000. Their original
settlements in the country are given in the following list; but they have,
since the time of Nadir, taken possession of almost all the Kaiani territory
west of the Helmand, as has been shown in the preceding pages
SihkuVia,
Pusht-i-Dasht,
W armal,
Sadki,
Daulatabad,
Chilling,
and a few
Dode,
Husainabad,
Burj Hall,
Bahramabad,
Ibrahfmabad,
Chang-i-Murghan,
other hamlets.
— [Bellew.)
SAEDlB—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A hamlet, 3 miles south-east of Kabuda, on the road from Gazik to Kain,
in Khurasan.— [Stewart.)
SAR-DAGH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 40 miles from Tun, on the road to Nishapur, from
which it is distant 100 miles. It is a walled village, and contains 100 houses,
inhabited by Persians, and is situated in a plain, where there is an abundance
of salt, which forms a considerable article of commerce.— {Perrier)
SARDA1— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Bajistan subdivision of the Tabas district of Khurasan.—
[Belleic.)
SARDAK, or SARDAGH, or SARDAD— Lat. , Long. ;
Elev.
A village in Khurasan, on the border of the Kavfr, 45 miles from TursMz
(Sultanabad), on the road to Tun. It has 50 houses, with some supplies.
There is an abundance of salt in the vicinity, which forms a considerable
article of commerce.— [Perrier, Ktnneir, MacGregor.)
SARDARA— Lat. 31° 49' 0 // , Long. 59° 40' 0"; Elev. 6,800' [Walker).
A pass in Khurasan, lying 30 miles north-west from Nih, the chief village
in the subdivision of Nfhbandan. In spite of its elevation of nearly
7,000 feet above the sea, the ascent from the east is easily made by follow
ing a well-watered and very picturesque valley, lightly wooded with
pistachio and almond trees. The descent is by a gorge, rather narrow at
the beginning, but soon widening out and debouching into the cultivated
plain of the village of Maigun.— [K/id/iikoff.)
SARDIH—
See “ Zardak/’
SAREJA, or SREJA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A defile, north of Mashhad, on the road to Daraghaz, a few miles south of
Kalat-i-N adiri— [Mac Gregor. )
SARGHUJD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Gunabad subdivision of the Tabas district of Khurasan.—
[Bellew.)
SARHAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A subdivision of the Shahrud-Bustan district, comprising its eastern
portion, the upper part of the Bustan valley, and the hilly country above
the Maghz.
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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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