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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎10r] (24/820)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (396 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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AFZ—AHA
11
AFZALABAD (No. 1)—
. A V]]la ge to the right of the road between Ribad and Sabzawar in Khora-
san, about four or five miles from the former.—(Afawto Bakhsh.)
AFZALABAD (No. 2)—
_ A village of 10 houses, two or three miles west of Sabzawar in Khora-
san.— [Schindler.)
AFZALABAD (No. 3)— Lat. 33° 8' 18 "; Long. 59° 8' 0 " .—( Lentz .)
A village in Khorasan, 17 miles from Birjand, on the road to Tun.
It has water and some supplies.—(HaeGVegror.)
AGHA JAN—
A village in the sub-division of Nimbulftk, district Rain, province Khora
san.— (Bellew.)
1GHALDAR—
A small mountain village in Khorasan on the first stage from
Birjand to Tiln.— (MacGregor.)
AGHA MlRZA—
A village of the Alghflr sub-division, in the Kain district of Eastern Khora-
san.— (Bellew.}
AGHA MUSAI—
A village containing about 120 families in the Darreh Gaz district of
Khorasan.— (Mania Bakhsh.)
AGHURJURLl or UGHURJALl—
A sub-section of the Ja’afarBai section of Yamuts, inhabiting the neighbour
hood of Chikishlyar and the mouth of the Atrak. They are said to distrust
and dislike the Russians, preferring their old Persian connection. The
importance of this tribe consists in their having formerly been pirates.
They are still sailors, and might afford the materials for a future Persian
navy, if the treaty closing the Caspian to the ships of that flag should some
day be annulled. —(War Office, Persia.}
AGRlKUL—
Name of a small stream in the Persian Yamiit country in the Astarabad
district, 3 miles from Yaram Tappeh (q.v.).-(C. E. Yate.)
AHA N GAR AN—Elev. 3,743'.
A very tmall village in the Zir Kuh sub-division of the Birjand district of
Khorasan. It consists of only ten families of cultivators, living in an old
fort with high walls. Supplies not procurable, except in very small quan
tities. Fuel and grazing plentiful. Water good from one kdriz. The village is
the private property of the Chief of Kain. From Ahangai an commences-
the district known as Zir Kuh, of which Chahrakhts is the head-quarters,
— (II. D. Napier ; C. E. Yate.)

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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

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 contains an index map (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).

Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (396 folios)
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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 398; 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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