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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [336v] (679/722)
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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SI-STJ*— Lit. 87° 28' 10", Long. 57 0 41' 0"; Elev. ' (Napier).
A village in Kurdish Khurasan, on the left bank of the Atrak, 18 miles
east of Bujnurd, and on the boundary of the provinces of Bujnurd and
Kuchan.— (Baker, Gill.)
SI WAN— Lit. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of S00 houses in the Arazan subdivision of the'Astarabad prov
ince.— (Napier.)
SKAE— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 46 miles from Khaf, on the road to Yazd. It is
a fine village, and is famous for the almonds it produces.— (Christie.)
StJDKHAR—L at. , Long. ; Elev.
A village of northern Khurasan, 154 miles east of Mazandaran, on the road
to Sabzawar from Shahrud.-—
SfjGtjTLI—L at. , Long. ^ ; Elev. _ '.
A pass on the border of Khurasan, leading from Bujnurd to the Atak
country.— ( Thomson.)
StJ-I-GARMAKII AN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
The largest tributary of the Atrak, or rather the name by which that
river is known in its upper course. It drains the plateaux lying north and
east of Kuchan, the western slopes of the Kalat chain, the Kuchan plain,
and the mountains bounding it on the south, an area of about 2,000 square
miles forming the upper part of the drainage basin. Passing south of
Kuchan, it receives the waters of a large spring, known as the Kara Kazan,
the reputed source of the Atrak,—also a small stream from the north of
Shirwan. At 45 to 50 miles from Kala Yusuf Khan, the point at which
it enters the Kuchan plain, it disappears in a narrow gorge, known as the
Tan g-i-Bazabad, and continues to flow thence between high mountains
west-north-west and west for about 40 miles to Mana, a large village, 20
miles north-west from Bujnurd by road, receiving small streams from the
mountains forming the watershed, 15 to 20 miles distant to the south,
and from the north the drainage of the Khushkhana plateau, 30 to 40
miles north-east.
From Mana, about 80 miles to the Chah-i-Atrak, the point of junction
of the Chandfr stream from the north, the Garmakhan or Atrak flows
through a country of low hills and plateaux seamed with ravines. The
spur or ridge of the Atak chain, bounding it to the north, rises high, and is
difficult to cross : that to the south is easy.— (Napier.)
STJ-I-JAM— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. / .
A tract in Khurasan east of the Tun range. Its drainage goes into the
Kashaf-Rud.— (MacGregor.)
STJJAKTJH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of great, snow-clad mountains bounding the plain of Biwajan
in Khurasan on the south. The Isfian range, running north-west and south
east to the north-west of Dasht-i-Biaz, rises into a high mountain. At its
base are the villages of Munaiduj and Buskhabad.— (Bellew.)
STJKRORI-BURZABAD —Lat. , Long. ,Elev.
The entrance of the mountain range called Kuh-i-Laki and Kuh-i-Siah, on
the left and right of the road respectively from Kahkh to Bajistan.— (Rozario.)
* The “ Three Streams.”
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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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