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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [325v] (657/722)
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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SHAFlABAD —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 33 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Daraghaz.
There are gardens here.— [Napier.)
SHAFlABAD— Lat. 35° 15' 0 // , Long. 58° 14' SO"; Elev. ' [Napier)
A village in Khurasan, 21 miles from Sultanabad, Turshiz, on the road to
Shahrud. There is good water here and cultivation. It is in the Azo-hand
subdivision of Turbat-i-Haidan.— [Taylor, Bellew.)
SHAHABAD— Lat. 37° 84' 30", Long. 56° 56' 0"; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan, 25 miles north-west of Buinurd.—(/ w .
ielligence Department, War Office.) © ’ v
SHAHABAD*— Lat. 36° 12' 30", Long. 58° 51'0": Elev
1876 ).
A village in Khurasan, 8 miles from Nishapur, on the road to
It has water and cultivation.— [Bellew.)
[Napier,
Mashhad.
SHAH ABBAS—Lat. 37° 33' 0", Long. 56° 15' 30"; Elev,
A village in Kurdish Khurasan situated in the hills to the north of Chanda
Abbas. This place appears as “ Shahbaz ” in many m&ys.—[Napier.)
SHAHAK— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 32 miles from Birjand, towards Tun, from which
it is 56 miles distant. It is walled, and contains 60 houses and 100 tents
of nomads, inhabited by Arabs. It is in the Kam subdivision of that dis
trict.— [Terrier, Bellew.)
SHAHARH Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A place on the Hari Rud, down to which the Persian boundary runs. Per-
hapstlnsis identical with “ Shabash,” a place west-by-north of Herat 1?) —
[MacGregor.) w ’
SHAHDASHAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A halting-place on the Khurasan border, 42 miles from Mashhad,’ on the
road to Sarahs. It belongs to Muhammad Khan, Marvi.— [Thomson.)
SHlHDILTJ —
A Kurd tribe of Khurasan, who expatriated to the Ataks of Khurasan
in the reign of Shah Abbas Tafavi, about 1,600 A.D. After a few
years they were forced to relinquish the frontier, and move westward into
A f i dr f nin g west mto the Gurgan, and north-west into the
n/ fl a^' ; lt V? 61 ie , Vl ag>es of the Geraili Turks on the northern feeders
ot the Atrak had been destroyed, and the Shahdillu appear never to have
been m force sufficient to reoccupy them. With a rough country much
exposed on the north and west to hostile attacks, they have lost in numbers,
and have failed to attain to the affluence of their cousins of Kuchan. Their
lonc^ partial independence will probably be maintained
^ V that °f the other tribes. It may be reckoned as able to turn out,
1 1 f - l ln .A? „ 1( l u ^khani, about 3,000 armed men. The villagers are
r > f ana i + ° P^JSfflue, armed with good guns of native make,
and accustomed to a life ot almost constant warfare. The ilkhanPs juris-
diction extends over Simalghan and Maua on the Atak, Jajarm, and
Lskuain, a length of 90 miles and a breadth of 50 round Bujnurd.—(ifac-
* The “Royal City.’
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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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