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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [323r] (652/722)
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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It is still considered the actual frontier, and is held by a subordinate
governor, who administers justice and collects the revenue. His authority
extends up to the southern buluks, Biarjumand and Khar Turunai, the tract
most subject to Turkoman incursions. The tract is for the most part avoid
and desert plain, divided by low ridges running from the west, and bend
ing south-east towards the desert. The principal villages are Kalat and
Khich, of 200 houses, lying on the eastern shoulder of Khush Ailak;
Maghz Gilan, 200 houses, on the road to Jajarm; Rubat, on the Jajarm
road; and Kalata.— {MacGregor, Napier.)
SARIAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. h
A village in the Alghur subdivision of the Kam district of Khurasan.—
{Bellew.)
SAR-I-BlSHAII— Lat. 32° 35' 20", Long. 59° 46' 40"; Elev. 5,900 7 {St.
John ).
A village in Khurasan, 41 miles south-east of Birjand, on the road to
Sistan. It is situated 7 miles west of the summit of the pass of Ganda-Kuh,
on the western side of the valley, and at the foot of a range of barren hills.
It consists of 500 dome-roofed, mud houses, with about 2,000 inhabitants,
and has the remains of an c arg/ or citadel, and of an Usbak watch-tower in
the vicinity. The water-supply is good and abundant. The meaning of the
word “ Sir-i-Bishah ” is either the “ forest head,” or “ the cold desert.” It lies
in a wide plain extending in gentle undulations north-west as far as Birjand,
where it is closed by a range separating it north and south from the district
of Khusp. It is covered with rich pasture ; but water is scarce, except in
the hollows at the foot of the hills. The people of this village manufacture
an inferior carpet called ‘kalin/ It is in the Narjun subdivision of the
Kam district.— {Goldsmid, Bellow, MacGregor.)
SAR-I-CHAH— Lat. 32° 16' 8", Long. 58° 46' 0"; Elev. ' {Lentz).
A large village in Khurasan, 57 miles from Birjand, on the road to Karman.
Supplies are plentiful. It has about 100 houses. The neighbouring plain
is clayey and saline, and in many places affords excellent pasture for sheep
and camels.— {Khdnikoff.)
SAR-I-CHAH*— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, on the road from Khur to Sabzawar, 92 miles from
the latter, 8 from Khur.— {MacGregor.)
SAR-I-CHASHMAf— Lat. _ ,Long. _ iElev. , '.
A small village in Khurasan, adjoining the basin called Chashma Giias, 6
miles north-west of Mashhad. It has a considerable breadth of unirrigated
corn land, which is said to yield in good years a return of from ten to
twenty-five fold, with a large and good gxxm.—{Napier.)
SAR-I-CHASMA— Lat. , Long i Elev ^
A spring, 21 miles south-east of Birjand, on the road to Tara, {blewart.)
SAR-I-DIH Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ’ , , ,
A village in Khurasan, 18 miles from Tun, on the road to Nishapur.
It is walled, and contains 300 houses, inhabited by Persians. Plenty of
good water. Bajistan is 12 miles dista nt.— Stewart.)
* The “ Well’s Mouth.” | f The “ Fountain Head.”
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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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