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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [334r] (674/722)
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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621
encampment of a force proceeding- by this route, as there is abundance of
water, fuel, and some forage.— {MacGregor.)
SIKANDAUABAD— Lat. } Long. j Elev. '.
A village in Turbat-i-Haidan subdivision of the sameMistrict of Khurasan.-—
[Bellew.)
SIKANH-A— Lat. , Long. • Elev. , .
A village in northern Khurasan, about 25 miles from Kuchan, on the road
to Bujnurd. It is situated under the hills that border the route.— {Mac
Gregor.)
SILIAN —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A group of ruins, 18 miles south of Lash, in the Peshawaran district of
Sistan. To the north lie the Dih Malan, and to the south-west the Kul Mariit
ruins. Those of Siliari extend over a distance of 10 miles along the border of
the lake, all of which, being constructed similar to and with the materials used
for Nad All, and possessing like fragments of pottery, porcelain, and glass,
prove it to have been a contemporary of Nad AK, Kila Fat, and Zaidan,
and probably to have been armed by one and the same person. The natives
invariably refer its history to the mythical age of Rustam. But, from
the Saracenic style of building, the Cufic character of the superscrip
tions, and the similarity of fragments of articles found, rendered it evident
that its best days were under the Muhammadan sway—probably some of the
lieutenants of the Khalifaks, who governed Mashhad, and, pushing their
conquests, established a government in those remote regions.
If the fact of Alexander causing Herat to be built prior to going up
the Etymander be considered, the probability will be that Silian corresponds
to the Drangrani and the Best to Scythia, from the intersection of canals
between.— {Bellew, Rozario.)
S1LIANI— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in the Nimbuluk subdivision of the Kam district of Khura
san.— {Bellew.)
SILIANI— Lat. 33° 56' 0", Long. 58° 54/ 0"; Elev. 7 {SI. John).
A village in the subdivision of Nimbuluk in Khurasan.— {Bellew.)
SILUGLI— Lat. 38° S' 0", Long. 57° 5' 0"; Elev.
A plateau in northern Khurasan on the borders of the Atak. —{Intelligence
Department, War Office.)
SlMIABAD— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. ^ '.
A village in the Zawah subdivision of the Turbat-i-Haidan district of Khu
rasan.— {Be Hew .)
SIMULGHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A district of Khurasan, between Bujnurd and Mashhad. It is richly watered
from the hills. The plateau has twelve villages, with an aggregate of 400
houses, inhabited by Shahdilus and by Walis. The jurisdiction of the
Ilkhani
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
of the Shahdilu tribe extends over this tract. The village, a large
one, with water and supplies, is 20 miles east of Bujnurd.— {Barnes,
MacGregor, Napier.)
SIMURGHAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of Khurasan, north-west of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam near Kalandar-
abad.— {Khdnikoff.)
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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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