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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎12v] (29/820)

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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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AKK—AKY
and not a gun can be trained on to command its approach, by many degrees.
It is supposed to be a fete-de-powi; but as the bridge is left quite unprotected
[ on the north bank, it can hardly be said to fulfil its function. It is said
that this defect has been brought to the notice of the Shah, who directed
that a strong work should be erected on the north side to cover the bridge.
His Majesty’s directions have been fulfilled by the erection of a summer
house three storeys high. The bridge is falling into disrepair.
The fort is garrisoned by 300 sarbdzes (infantry soldiers) and 20 gun
ners with 3 Austrian and 3 Persian guns at the bridge over the Gurgan,
13 miles north of Astarabad.—; Napier ; Thomson ; C. E. Yate t 1894 ;
Astarabad Trade Report, 1909.)
Al£ KALEH (No. 2) Lat. 37° 34 / 0 ; Long. 57° 30 r 0*.— {Intelligence
Division, War Office.) '
A village in the Bujnurd district of Northern Khorasan on the river
Garma Khan.— {Intelligence Division, War Office.)
AK KALEH (No. 3)—
Ruins of a fort and town, about 3 miles north of Kumisdan (a village
on the road from Jaghatai to Nishapur), built by Allah Yar Khan Kilich,
chief of Juvain, and destroyed by the Hisam-us-Saltaneh during the Salar’s
rebellion of 1849.— {C. E. Yate.)
AK KARlZ—
A small village situated to the right of the road between ’Aliabad and
Kuchan. Supplies procurable in small quantities.—(dfawfo BaJchsh.)
AKKUTAL— L\t. 37° 25' 0"; Long. 57° 27' 0".—{Napier.)
A low pass in Khorasan, 5 miles east of Bujnurd, on the road from
Shirvan. It passes over downs of chalk and marl. The ascent from
the east is said to be sharp, and the descent on the west winding among
wavy hills.— {Fraser’, Napier.)
Ak^meshed—
Name of hills between Bujnilrd and Isfarain.— {C. E. Yate.)
AK TAPPEH—
A place near Garm Ab, in north-eastern Khorasan, to which the Qaolan
Kaieh defile leads from the Akhal country.— {Thomson.)
AK TASH (No. 1)—
A village in Kurdish Khorasan, about 9 miles from Muhammadabad,
on the road to Kuchan by the Allahu Akbar pass.— {MacGregor.)
AK TASH (No. 2)—
One of eight small Atak villages lying on the high lands of the plateaux
and to the south front of Kalat-i-Nadiri, in Khorasan, containing about
100 houses.— {Napier\ MacGregor.)
AK YAILAQ ULAN— Lat. 37° 20' 0"; Long. 54° 45' 6*.—(Intelligence
Division, War Office.)
A fort over the Atrak river, 50 miles south-east of Chikishlyar.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)

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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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