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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [339v] (685/722)
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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632
The district contains four-and-a-half Minks. They yield a revenue of
80,000 tumans, half of which goes to the imperial treasury, and the
remainder to meet the expenses of the local government.
The several bdluks and their villages are as follows
Gundbdd .—Villages : Gdnabad, Ghojd, Surghojd, Khybari, Dalivi, Jamm,
Eahm, Itayab, Katmarabad, Bagh-i-Siah, Belun, Bedagh, Najhab, Hajiabad,
Nandih, Sai Tdr, Nankar, and some others.
Kdkkh .—Kahkh, Kalat-i-Nan, Magar, Ragahu, Nandih, Patanjo, Kamfh,
and some others.
Tuk. —Tun, Saraian, Anarak, Zuabad, Naristang, Khanih, and others.
Tab as. —The city and about 20 villages.
Bijistdn* —Villages : Bijistan, Urn Sung, Yunsi, and others.— {Mac
Gregor, Bellew.)
TABATKAN— Lat. 36° 30' 0", Long. 60° 1' 30 v ; Elev. 7 {Napier).
A village in Khurasan, 21 miles from Mashhad, on the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri
by Chacha. It has some cultivation.— {MacGregor.)
TABATKAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A buluk of the Mashhad district of Khurasan, comprising some fertile
valleys of the Kalat range, north and east of Mashhad, and extending to the
Hari Rud. It has about 40 villages and hamlets. Muzdaran and Ak-
Darband, and the lower course of the Kashaf Rud, are included in it. A
considerable quantity of corn finds its way thence to the Mashhad market.
The people are Kurds of various tribes—Jalaiah, Baiat, and Muzdarani.
The estimated population is 10,000, and the revenue is 4,870 tumans cash
and 1,740 kharwars of grain.— {Najoier.)
TAGAO CHAKHAN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village, with water and supplies, in Khurasan, 42 miles east of Kain, on
the road to Anardara (Afghanistan) via Gulwardan.— {MacGregor.)
TAGHAB— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A large village in Khurasan, between Dostabad and Afris, to the left of the
road from Tun to Birjand.— {MacGregor.)
TAGHANKTJH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A buluk of the Nishapur district of Khurasan. It is a barren tract of
mountain and plain, stretching from Bar-i-Madan to the borders of
Sabzawar, including the upper part of the Juvam plain and the spurs of the
Jagatai hills. Its population and productions are quite disproportion
ate to its extent. There are nine principal villages; numbering 2,000
families of Baiats. Cotton and grain crops are produced. Irrigation is
from artificial streams.
The estimated revenue is 3,000 tumans; the estimated population, 8,000.—
{Napier.)
TAGHtlN— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, 4 miles north-east of Furg in the Sunikhana dis
trict.— {Mac Gregor.)
TAGIUSH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A well-cultivated valley in Khurasan, about 17 miles north-west of the town
of Birjand.— {MacGregor.)
* or “Bajistan.”
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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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