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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [323v] (653/722)
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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SAR-I-HALLALAH—Lat. , Loxg. ^ ^ ; Elev. 6.500'.
A pass between the provinces of Irak and Astarabad, 16 miles from Chaslima-
i-Alf, on the road to the town of Astarabad. It is 1,050 feet above, and 16
miles beyond, Chahardih.— (Najrier.)
SAR-I-JAM— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A district lying south-west of Mashhad in Khurasan, and lying east of the
Nfshapur plain.— [MacGregor.)
SAR-I-JANGAZ —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place in Afghanistan, 160 miles from Mazar-i-Shanf, on the road
to Herat.— (Sleioart.)
SAR-I-MAHALLA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A river in Astarabad, miles from Gfhaz. It is usually dry in the winter.
—{Holmes.)
SAR-I-MAZAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A halting-place in Khurasan, one stage south of Sabzawar, on the road to
Turshfz.— ( Mac Gregor.)
SAR-I-RtiD*— -Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A small village in Khurasan, in the district of Kalat-i-Nadiri, and to the
south-east of the stronghold of that name. It contains some 100 houses.—
{MacGregor.)
SAR-I-SARGHA MEGHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A range of mountains at the head of the Biistan plain and north-north-
east of the Shahrdd-Bustan district.— {Napier.)
SAR-I-SIBCHAH —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Khurasan, four stages or 75 miles north-west of Nih in Sfstan,
on the road to Tabas.— {MacGregor.)
SAR-I-WILAIAT—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A subdivision of Nfshapur, with an estimated population of 8,000 souls and
paying a revenue of 8,000 tumans. It is a small mountainous tract, forming
a section of the range dividing the Juvafn and Mashhad plains and dis
tricts, 40 to 60 miles north-east from Nfshapur. It has six principal
villages, and a total of some 2,000 houses. The people are Turks of the
Bayat tribe, speaking Turki and Persian. Its productions are wheat, barley,
and millet, chiefly grown in £ daima/ or unirrigated lands. It is watered by
a small stream known as the Rud-i-Haidarf. The hills have no forest, but
afford pasturage for flocks. Towards the north of the subdivision is a fine
plateau, with a village known as Sultan Maidan, across which lies the most
direct route to Mashhad from the west.—{MacGregor, Napier.)
SARIZAR— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
One of the eight small hamlets on the south of the Kalat-i-Nadiri plateau
in Khurasan. It contains something under 100 houses. It is 12 miles
from Kalat.— {MacGregor.)
SARJAM —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A large plain south-east of Mashhad in the district of Khurasan, at the head
of the Jam stream. Farfmun lies on it,—-a large village,—besides twelve
others. In the moist hollow of the plain are good pastures, where numbers
of cattle graze. It contains only some 300 nomads, and the plateau is
much exposed to Turkuman ravages. The plain on the south is bounded
* The “ River 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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