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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [330r] (666/722)
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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SHASHDRAZ —Lat. , Long. ; Elev. 7 .
A river in Khurasan, which receives the drainage of the Nishapur district,
and after a course of some 158 miles in a southerly direction, is finally lost
in the salt desert, or Kavir. Near Kandur it is crossed by the road
from Turshiz to Shahrud. It is divided into six streams or channels (hence
its name), two of which pass through the village of Kandur running in a
full stream about 6 feet wide.— {Clerk, Taylor, MacGregor, Stewart.)
SH AIJGHAN, or SHUHAN— Lat. 37° 18' 0", Long. 56° 53' 0 ; Elev.
A village in northern Khurasan, 28 miles south-west of Bujnurd. It is
’ a large place of 250 houses of Shahdilu Kurds, and used to furnish
a guard of 100 horsemen for the protection of the frontier from Turkuman
raids. It has large gardens and a great extent of unirrigated wheat-lands,
< daima/ giving good crops;
The plateau of Shaughan drains south, extending to ChandiT and the
Gurgan. Through it runs the old trade route to Gurgan.— {Napier, Mac
Gregor.)
SHAZULA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Khusp subdivision of the Kain district of Khurasan.—
{Bellew.)
SHERI— Lat. , Long. _ ; Elev. •
A village in the Kain subdivision of the Kain district of Khurasan.
{Bellew.)
SHELA— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. h
A stream coming out of the Sistan lake when it is very tul .
stages from Sihkuha on the road to Karman.
SHENTtJ— Lat. , Long. 5 Elev. ^ '.
A hill forming the peak of a spur from the Shahkuh range, south
east of Tash, on the northern border of the Shahrud Bustan district.—
[Lovett.)
SHERABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '•
The first village on Afghan soil on the road from Khaf (Rm) eastward
towards Ghurian via Karat, which is the last Persian village. ^
SHERKHAN— Lat. , Long. i ^ev. '•
A poor village in Khurasan, 24 miles from Sarakhs on the road from Gazik
to Kain, which lies 42 miles north-west.— {Stewart.)
S gfvTn^a stag,. tWmMches from S^akhs, on the road to Mash-
had, Pul-i-Khatun intervening.—(ILwi Shah.)
S A^villke^thT Na’ijun S ubdividon G of Kaian’ fn7L ICain district of
Khurasan. It lies at the foot of the Mommabad range near Sai-i-Besha.
{Bellew.) ,
Daraghaz dSrict of KhS' 14 miles 'south-east of
Durincar, on the road from Kuchan to Daraghaz.-(An?«r.)
It lies two
s “iS“ I feSi.,.b..a , S..a J w.. a. - *
1Lim.—{Rozario.)
Elev.
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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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