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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎47v] (99/820)

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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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80
beh-bid
24 hours. The annual production of wheat and barley (§ wheat, | barley)
in ordinary years is 650 Indian maunds. Water-supply from two Jcdrizes.
The annual mdlldt is 250 krdns.
The Russians have a post in connection with their cordon sanitaire, con
sisting of a doctor and 5 Persian savdrs. — (C. Wanliss, August 1903.1
BEHRABAD—
A small village 6 miles from Meshed on the road to KAchan and Darreh
Gaz.— {Schindler .)
BlDlBAD—
A village in the Zirustak sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam.— {Schindler.)
BLDAGH—
A village of 250 houses in the Gunabad district of Khorasan, with
good buildings and gardens, about 2 miles from Juvain.
All supplies ; good water.—(Jfafcow, 1906.)
BIDAN—
A large village of Khorasan, about 4 miles from Sabzawar, on the
road to NIshapur '.— {MacGregor'’s Routes.)
BlDAQ (No. 1)—
A village in the south-west of the Bujnurd valley in Khorasan .—{Maula
Bakhsh.)
BlDAQ (No. 2)-
Ruins of a village on the north-west side of the Dasht valley in the Buj
nurd district of Khorasan.— {Maclean.)
BIDASHT Lat. 36 25 35 ; Long. 55° 2 r 15 ; Elev. 4,316\— {Lemm.)
A village in the Zirustak sub-district of Shahrud-Bastam in Khorasan,
4i miles from Shahrud, on the road to Meshed. It is a large walled village
of 150 houses inhabited by Arabs, who settled in the country, it is said,
during the khalifat of Bani ’Abbas. They have lost their language and
distinctive type. The village and the neighbouring hamlet of Sa’adabad
are watered by a fine qandt, with a stream flowing through an avenue of
trees. It is sufficient to supply a large force. There is a post-house, and
the ruins of an old fort and caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). built in A. H. 1055 in the vil
lage.— {Napier ; Stewart; Schindler.)
BIDKH AR— r ^
A village of 50 houses in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, 2 miles
north-east of Ramshin (Juvain). About a mile to the south of the village
are the ruins of Shahvaj.—(/ScAfw^fer.)
BIDMUSFK—
A small village on the road Detween Kaln and Birjand, about 8 miles
south of the former. It consists of about 15 houses and 40 inhabitants.
The annual production of wheat and barley (f wheat. 4 barley) in ordi-
nary years is about 180 Indian maunds. Good water-suptp'iy from a kdnz.
__ — (C. Wanliss> August 1903.)
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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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