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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [332r] (670/722)
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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the Julgah-Rukti plain. The road from Mashhad turns south-west to
Turshiz here.— (Bellew, MacGregor.)
SHOR HISAR— Lat. 35° 2A O'', Long. B^IS'O"; Elev. ' {Napier).
A village in Khurasan, 19 miles from Turbat-i-Haidarf, on the road to
Mashhad.' It is in a ruinous condition, and has a poor caravansarai.—
{Stewart.)
SHOR-RTJD*— Lat. 30° 53' 0", Long. 57° 55' 0"; Elev. ' {Walker).
A stream in southern Khurasan. It rises near the mountain called Kuh-i-
Murghab, on the borders between Khurasan and Karman, and flows south-east
until lost in the desert of Lut. It has, where it is crossed by the caravan
road from Birjand to Karman, a considerable stream of salt and bitter
water, and farther on runs off into a hollow to the south of Bagh-i-Asad,
where it deposits thick beds of salt, which is collected by the inhabitants of
Khabis and Dih-i-Saif.— {Khdnikoff.)
SHOR-RtD—L at. , Long. ; Elev.^
A salt river of eastern Khurasan, on the road to Khaf. It is the same that
flows halfway between Bihdadun and Muznabad. It drains into a depres
sion about 10 miles beyond Niazabad in the direction of Sabzawar. Ihe
Shor-Rud passes between the Kaiba Kuh and Khwaja Shahz Kuh ranges.
— {Stewart.)
SHCRUKH— Lat. 36° 23' 30", Long. 60° 45' 30" ; Elev. ^ ' {Napier).
A stage on the road from Mashhad to Sarakhs by Muzdaran. There is a
spring of brackish water here.’ {Stewart.)
SHUKARLIt— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. •
A hamlet in Khurasan, 17 i miles from Kachan, on the road to Annan in
the Atak.— {Napier.)
SHUKUR CHASMA— Lit. , Long. ; Elev • '•
A spring of water, with no inhabitants, 30 miles north-east of Uiarakhs,
in Khurasan, on the road to Ghunan. {Stewart.)
SHtJNDtJNlS— , n
A tribe who reside near Tabas m Khurasan.— {MacGregor.)
SHURAK-LiT. 37” 32' 30", Long. 58” 16' 0" ; Elev. '•
A village in Kurdish Khurasan, lying below the source of the Durangar
stream and between the villages of Durangar and Imdmguli, on a road
from Kuchan to Askhabad. It contains 100 houses. Durbadam is close to
it.— {Napier.)
SHTTB 4 K L \t Long. ; Elev.
A village outside the hills of the Kalat plateau of Khurasan, situated in
a wild glen at the head of the Daraghaz stream. There is water, forage, and
fuel here.—{MacGregor, Napier.)
SI A ? lartf vmige^n Kdrdish khSn situated in a deep valley of the same
name to the north of Kuehan. It has no gardens and very few trees ; and
‘ but scanty crops of wheat and barley grow on the slopes of the moun-
tain.'— {Napier.) ,
Thaltinl L pWe,one stagetom Sarakhs, ^border of Khurasdn, towards
Kalat-i-Nadiri.— {Mac Gregor .)
* The “ Salt Stream.
f Perhaps “ Shakar.
78
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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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