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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [35r] (74/820)
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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ATT-AZA
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According to the Akhal-Khorasan Boundary Convention of 11th—23rd
March 1882, the course of the river Atrak serves as the frontier between
the possessions of the Russian Empire and Persia east of the Caspian Sea,
between Hasan Quli Gulf and Chat-i-Atrak.— [MacGregor ; C. Stephen ;
Petrusevitch ; Napier ; O' Donovan; TFar Office, “ Persia ; ” Mania Baksh.)
ATTAR—
A village in the Meshed valley in Khorasan. Water good. Supplies
procurable in small quantities.— [Mania Baksh.)
AUBARAN or AB-I-BARAN—
A village in Khorasan, 15 miles west of Meshed. It is surrounded with
cultivation on all sides.— [Clerk.)
’AUDEHRUSH-RUD—
A stream in the Astarabad district, flowing in a north-westerly
direction into the Gurgan river. It traverses the Fidarisk sub-divi
sion.— [Napier.)
AUL— Lat. 36° 41' 40" ; Long. 59° 42' 20".—[Napier.)
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri, and
32 miles north of the former town. It is situated in a small opening
in the hills about 1 mile long by 400 yards broad, its houses, cultiva
tion, and gardens occupying the whole of the level ground at the foot
of the cliffs.
Avard—
A village in the Shirvan sub-division of the Kuchan district of Khora
san, situated about 8 miles from Shirvan.— (MacZeaw.)
AVlZ or ABlZ—
A flourishing village of 80 houses in the Zirkuh sub-division of Birjand.
—(//. D. Napier.)
AZADMANJIR or ASAD MANZIL—
A village of 100 houses in Khorasan, about 6 miles east of Sabzawar,
close to Nazlabad, of which, it is said, it was formerly a part. It has an
old mosque with a dome 40 feet high. [Schindler.)
lZADVAR—
A village in the centre of the valley of Juvain m Khorasan, about
8 miles from Safiabad. .
This village is situated near the ruins of the old town of Juvain, from
which the district takes its name. _ _
These ruins consist of the remains of a lofty mud building, some 0
yards by 30 in size and 30 to 40 feet m height which formerly
W three storeys and possibly four. This was surrounded by a wall and
bastions, and to^the east of it lies a mass of mounds full of stones and bricks,
which mark the site of the ancient town of Juvain. See Jaghatai.
(C. E. Yate, 1897.)
48 I. B.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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