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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎44r] (92/820)

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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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BAND-I-SALlMl—
An ancient dam, now partly mined, about 4 miles north of Salami,
a village 15f miles from Khaf to the west of the road to Turbat-i-Haidari-
It is said to be over 50 yards in length, about the same in thickness at the
base and 20 yards wide at the top, capable, if repaired, of holding up water
sufficient to irrigate 100 ploughs of land. Such water as is now held
up by the band is used in the autumn for sowing the crops. A small
quantity of supplies can be obtained from a few houses on the bank of the
tank, which is about a mile in circumference, when full. The band and
its lands have recently been purchased from the Shah by Amir Bahadur of
Tehran, who intends to keep it in repair. There are the ruins of an old
town called Sabah in the vicinity, where gold coins have been found.—(0. E.
Yate; Wanliss, 1903 ; Watson, 1906.)
BAND-I-TURUQ—
A masonry dam constructed across the stream rising in the hills to the
south-east of Turuq {q.v.), and emerging into the Meshed valley at that
village. The dam is situated some 6 miles up stream and west-sou’-
west of Turuq, and although somewhat out of repair, holds up a large
volume of water. Its dimensions are—height, 60 feet; average width,
27 feet, with one buttress 18 feet wide; length, 270 feet. The dam is
reached either from Turuq by a difficult track—much of which is in the
stream-bed—involving the passage of several narrow gorges, or from Meshed
direct by an easier path over the plateau formed by the hills to the
south-west of the city. It is the property of the shrine of the Imam
Riza.— (Redl, 1906.)
BAN! KAFUJ—
A tribe of Arab descent in Khorasan, inhabiting the neighbourhood of
Tabas and Tun.
BANl KAZD—
A tribe of Arab descent in Khorasan inhabiting the neighbourhood of
Tabas and Tun.
BAN-I-MID—
A clan of Baluchis, numbering about 300 families. It is said that they
were brought by Nadir Shah and were settled in Khorasan.— {Stewart.)
BANl TAK—
Ruins and a pass in the Jam district of Khorasan.
The ruins are between Zurabad and Burj-i-Qalich Khan, about two miles
from the latter. At Ban! Tak is a fine plain which in older times was
irrigated by a qandt. Soil of the low hills is said to be excellent. The
Timuris say that wheat of fine quality was formerly grown by them as rain
crops.
The pass is called Bani Tak from a high peak west of Burj-i-Qalich Khan,
at the base of which goes a drivable road to Mahmudabad. It is situated
between Burj-i-Qalich Khan and the village of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam. Its
top is 9f miles from the former and about 11J miles from the latter. The
ascent is easy, and height by aneroid 5,000 feet (probably 200 feet lower).
48 I. B. K

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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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