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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [325r] (656/722)
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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elm. While formerly there were 32 villages in the Sawar subdivision, there
are now 700.-— [Napier.)
SAYID-MIRAN—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. 1,000'.
A village about one da/s march to the west of Astarabad. Water, fuel,
forage, and some supplies, are procurable.— [Lovett.)
SEHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. \
A halting-place in Khurasan, 53 miles north-east of Birjand, on the^ road
to Ghurian by Charakhs.— [MacGregor.)
SENAl— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village outside and west of the Kalat-i-Nadiri plateau of Khurasan. It
is situated about a mile up a narrow glen, the water of which valley drains
toArchingan.— [MacGregor.)
SENGRI—
A branch of the Goklan Turkomans living on the left bank of the Gurgan
river, north-east of Astarabad.— [Thomson.)
SETFA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place, with water but without inhabitants, four stages south
east of Samnan, on the road to Tabas, in Khurasan. Rizih lies 42 miles
farther on.— [Stewart.)
SEVES— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan at the edge of the desert, about 2 miles
from Mazinan, in the direction of the Pul-i-Abresham. The Bahmanabad
is close.— [Napier.)
SEWAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Anazar subdivision of Astarabad. It lies buried in forest,
where cultivated clearings have made little impression. It contains 300
houses.— [Napier.)
SHABASH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A queer-looking, but exceedingly strong, little village in eastern Khurasan,
11 miles from Ghurian, on the road to Kanz. It is built on a small hil
lock, with rude but efficient defences. The whole hill has been scarped,
and a high wall erected on the top. Inside are all the houses, resting
against this wall, and three-stories in height. Outside at the foot of the
scarf) is a small space all round covered with houses also, the outer walls
of which are made to answer as a sort of faussebraye; and outside
all is a narrow but very deep ditch, with a deep bottom of black mud. The
only entrance is a small aperture, by which one man can get in at a time.
[Mac Gregor.)
SHADfCHAH— Lat. , Long. i Elev. .
A small village in Khurasan, 36 miles from Mashhad, on the road to
Sarakhs by Ak-Darband. It has a fort and some twenty houses of Marvis.
The Mashhad valley is here about one-and-a-half mile broad, with a fine
stream of water in the river (Kashaf-Rud), and great abundance of fodder
and food, together with a large extent of culturable land only small por
tions of which are, however, made use of.— [Thomson, MacGregor.)
5HADSHAHR—Lat. , Long. ; Elev. •
An old stone fort of Khurasan, attributed to the time of Dag nanus. It
is 3 miles from Kanibish, one stage east of Mashhad.-—( ac rtegoi.)
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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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