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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [13v] (31/820)
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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ALG—ALT
ALGHGR (No. 1)—
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A town in the district of Kain, Khorasan, and the chief town of the
Alghur buluh or sub-division. It is said to contain 300 houses.— (Bellew.)
ALGHUR (No. 2)-
A buluk or sub-division in the district of Kain, Khorasan, situated north
of Blrjand. It is said to c ntain upwards of 300 villages and hamlets and
farmsteads (mazra’eh), scattered about in nooks and dells amongst the hills.
Arvi and Zarvi are amongst the largest of the villages. Bellew’s report
gives the names of forty of them.— (Bellew.)
Alghur contains the following villages (Bellew) Mahiabad * (15
* Marked on the map. Gh >. k ’* Gazai >* NukM n,*
Lhah-i-Khan,* Hasanabad,* Ishaq ’Ambarabad
(20 houses), Firm] (15 houses), Isma’ilabad, Aldang, Naudeh, Arur (150
houses), Zar (150 houses), Pisteh Khan, Maian, Barkuk, Zamini, Taghab
Kundar, Khushki, Birinjan, Khaniq, Rashavand, Naik, Sihch, Tighdar,
Badmak, Haidara^ad, Aqa Mirza, Ayasiak, Sehdeh (280 houses), Maraci
Bujd (20 houses). 4
From this list, and taking the remainder at a little below the average
of the ones specified, say 80 houses each, a total of 2,810 houses is
arrived at, or 11,240 inhabitants.—(Z^. D. Napier.)
The revenue of the Alghur buluk is 1,720 tumans per annum.—(i/awh*
Bakhsh.)
ALGHUR (No. 3)—
A range of mountains in the district of Kain, Khorasan, having an ele
vation of some 12,000 feet above the sea. It lies above the village of Ghip,
which is itself 8,600 feet above the sea. To the north of this it is called
the Saqi, and to the south the Samand-i-Shah range. The Alghur range
gives its name to one of the principal buluks or sub-divisions of the
Kain district.— (Bellew.)
ALHAQ— Lat. 36° 22' 0" ; Long. 56° 14' tt".—(Napier.)
A hamlet f 30 houses in Khora an, on the road from Shahrud to Meshed,
12 miles from Miandasht and 8 from ’Abbasalad. There is a small
fort here in the last folds of the hills, tenanted by 90colonists who receive
a grant from Government for the protection of the road. There arc also
a dilapidated serai, a stream, and a few mulberry trees, and a good little
kdriz close at hand.—(5eZ/ew; Goldsmid', Khanikoff.)
* ALIABAD (No. 1)— Lat. 35° 11' 0" ; Long. 58° 56' 0".—(Napier.)
A small village of 30 houses, in the Azqand sub-division of the Turbat-
i-Haidari district of Khorasan. It is situated in a plain 16 miles west
of Turbat-i-Haidari, has a good supply of water, and is provided with a
strong wa 1 and a ditch.
It contains 10 ploughs of land and its annual revenue is 106 tumdns in
cash, 6 kharwdrs of grain, and 6 khanvdrs of chopped straw. The in
habitants possess BOO sheep and goats, 200 camels, 35 cattle and
donkeys —(Maula Bakhsh; Winter. 1905.)
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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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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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