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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎14v] (33/820)

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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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ALI—ALL
ALI GlRUM—

A village in Eastern Khorasan, 7 miles north of Bard eh on the road to
Kalat-i-Nadiri. It is 6 miles south of Darband-i-Arghavan Shah.— {Mac
Gregor.)
’ALlLI—
A section of the Turkoman tribe inhabiting a tract south of that below
the Akhals, and on the frontiers of Darreh Gaz and Kalat in Khorasan.
A large settlement of them, consisting of some 800 dwellings, is north of
the river of Haji Muhammad (’Aliabad) and about Kakhka. They used to
pay tithes regularly to the Persian Government, and looted to tha
authorities at Kalat for protection against raids, but are Russian
subjects now.— {Stephen.)
’ALI MAIDlNl—
small walled village in Khorasan on the road from Meshed to Sarakhs
by Ak Darband.— {MacGregor-)
’ALI MANZUR—
A village in the Kakh sub-division of the Tabas district of Eastern
Khorasan.—( Bellew .)
’ALINAI—
A narrow glen in Khorasan, about 27 miles from Shahrud, on the road to
Astarabad.— (Napier.)
*ALl PALANG—
A village in the sub-division of Nimbuluk, Kain district of Eastern
Kh or asan. —( Bellew .)
ALI TAjRtJD—
A village in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Eastern Khorasan.—( Bellew.)
AL KAHI—
A village in the Kuhpaieh sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam.— {Schindler.)
ALLAHABAD (No. 1)—
A village of 30 houses in the Juvain plain, about 15 miles north of
J aghatai. —( Schindler .)
ALLAHABAD (No. 2)—
A viHage in Khorasan on the road from Tabas to Sultanabad (Tursh
and the first village in the Turshiz district m this direction.—-(/Stewart.)
ALLAHABAD (No. 3)—
- the road between Turbat-i-Haidarland Gun

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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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