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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [20v] (45/820)
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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32
ARZ—ASH
*4
ARZANEH—
A small village in Eastern Khorasan, about 10 miles south-east of Khaf>
on the direct road to Kain. It lies with two other villages below the Kuh-
i-Kalateh range.—
ASADABAD (No. 1)— Lat. 35° 37' 10"; Lonq. 59° 18' 50"; Elev. 5,800'.—
(Walker.)
A walled village, also known as Kaleh-i-Shahzadeh, situated in the Julgah-
i-Rukh valley on the road between Turbat-i-Haidari and Meshed, 28 miles
from the former and 55 miles from the latter place. The village was built
about 1863 by Prince Asadullah Mirza as a check to Turkoman raiders.
The peculiar entrance gate of the village is no longer used, and the large
mill-stone, which formed the door to close it against Turkoman raiders,
lies unheeded, a wooden gate having now taken its place.
The village consists of 30 houses inside the walls, and contains some 120
inhabitants (Qarais) who possess 30 cattle and 600 sheep and goats.
The annual production of wheat and barley in ordinary years (§ wheat,
barley) amounts to about 540 Indian maunds. Good and plentiful water-
supply from a kariz and water-channel. A large
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
was com*
pleted in 1904; it is the best
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
between Sistan and Meshed.
The Meshedan telegraph line passes close by the village.— (Yate;
Mania Bakhsh, 1898; Wanliss, 1903; Watson, 1906.)
ASADABAD (No. 2)—
A village in the Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam district of Khorasan, on the main
caravan road between Meshed and Herat, 81 miles from the former place.
It consists of some 40 houses and some 120 inhabitants, who possess 50
cattle. The annual production of wheat and barley (§ wheat, £ barley)
in ordinary years, is about 1,450 Indian maunds. Plentiful grazing in the
neighbourhood, but scanty fuel. Water-supply from a kariz. — (Wanliss,
1903.)
ASAD MANZIL—
See Azadmanjir.
ASANlBAD,—
See Kuh-i-Ginau.
ASALMEH—
A mountain on the north-east border of Khorasan. Near it lies the
Hudan pass leading from Darreh Gaz to Kuehan, by which the Turkomans
used to raid from Akhal into Persian territory.— (R. Thomson.)
ASGHARABAD—
One of a group of hamlets called Kalateh-i-’Arab-u-’Ajam in Khora
san, 26 miles east of Maghz. No supplies ; water scanty.— (Steivart.)
ASH KHANEH—Lat. 37° .36' 0"; Lofg. 56° 58' 0". — (Intelligence Division,
War Office )
A village in Northern Khorasan, 23 miles north-west of Bujniird.—
(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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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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