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‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’ [343r] (692/722)
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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639
being 1 the only lineal descendants of the great Rustam. Agriculture
is carried, on to a great extent ; in fact, the intervening surface up to
is completely under cultivation, the tamarisk jungles having* been
cleared away for the purpose— Rozario.)
TICxIIAB Lat. , Long. ^ Elev.
A village in Khurasan, in the stage between Dostabad and Afrfs, on the
Tun-Birjand road. It contains about 20 families of Arabs, and has a con
siderable extent of cultivation about it.—{Forbes, MacGregor.)
TIKAH KHAN A— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of mountains in northern Khurasan, north of Mashhad. They are
crossed between Mashhad and Kalat, near Khur, by a very bad road.
Guns have been taken by it; but accounts as to the road difler. It is
probably very rough and bad ; and the light guns, certainly taken to Tajand,
must have been transported by hand.— {Napier.)
TILAB —Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in Khurasan, J mile from Kuchan, on the road to Daraghaz
It is situated on a stream of the same name, 16 to 18 feet wide and 2 feet
deep, with a sound bed.— [Napier.)
TILAWAR— Lat. 36° 54' 40", Long. 55° 36' 10" ; Elev. ' [Napier).
A village in the province of Astaiabad, situated on the bank of a fine stream,
about 50 miles north-east of Shahiud. It has some sixty houses and
a fair expanse of cultivation and gardens. It forms the winter quarters of a
tribe of Turks, who mostly summer on the slopes of the Khush Ailak moun
tain, and belongs to Ali Nuhi Khan Sirhang, the chief of Findarisk.—
[MacGregor.)
TTL-I-NAU— Lat. , Long. ; Elev. '.
A village in Astarabad at the foot of the hills to the right of the road from
Rakiabdin to Gez.— [Holmes.)
TIL-I-TASH— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A small village in Astarabad at the foot of the hills to the right of the
road from Bakiabdin to Gez— [Holmes.)
TIRGAUN— Lat. , Long. ' ; Elev.
A small village in Khurasan, 36 miles from Kalat-i-Nadiri, on the road to
Daraghaz. It contains only some ten or twelve families of Kurds.—-
[MacGregor.)
TIRI J—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A village in the Tirik subdistrict of the Tabas district of Khurasan. A sarai,
water, and supplies.— [MacGregor.)
Tf R KTJH—Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A range of hills in Khurasan close to Gebur. There is a difficult pass
through it, which would not be practicable for artillery, except mountain
guns. There is a road leading round the end of the range, which would be
passable for artillery. It is, however, longer than the other.— [Stewart.)
TOREZ— Lat. , Long. ; Elev.
A walled village of 200 houses in Khurasan, 7 miles from Tabas, on the
road thence to Birjand.— [Ferrier.)
TORTJD-I-BtJLtJK— Lat. , Long. 5 Elev.
A subdivision of the Biarjumand biiluk of the Shahruu district, lying to the
east of it.— [Napier.)
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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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