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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎48v] (101/820)

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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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BIJ—BIL
BIJISTAN (Village) (No. 2) on BAjISTlN— Lat. 34° 29' 0" ; Long. 58°
12' 20"; Elev. 4,300'.—(TEafe.)
The chief village of the buluk or sub-division of the same name belonging
•to the district of Tabas in the province of Khorasan. It is situated 77
miles south-west of Turbat-i-Haidarl and 93 miles north-west of Kain,
and is the third stage (33 miles) from Tun on the road to Meshed.
It contains about 1,500 houses surrounded by gardens and has a popula
tion of some 7,000 souls (Rozario says only 2,000). It has also a ruined
fort, a ruined caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , 4 hammdms (baths), 9 water-mills, 20
mosques and 200 shops.
It is famous for the manufacture of a very costly species of a baraJc cloth
made of goat’s wool, and of a cheap silk material called Chadar-i-Shah,
which 'are exported to all parts of Persia and are much esteemed.
Large quantities of apples, figs and other fruits are grown in the gardens
north-west of the town, and the place is celebrated for its excellent water
melons and abundant fruit. Four large qandts supply it with water.
The remains of an ancient qandt are still to be seen, of which the tradi
tion is that it was built in the time of the Safavi kings, and that whoever
drank of its water became mad. Its situation is at the base of a bare hill
running east and west for 3 or 4 miles, and the position of the city is
indefensible, it being commanded by higher ground east and south within
all ranges.
The annual outturn of grain of Bijistan is estimated by Lieutenant
Vaughan to be 6,000 Jcharudrs (wheat and barley) which is insufficient for
local consumption ; wheat is therefore imported. The villages possess
300 cows, 3,000 sheep and 400 donkeys.— {Stewart ; MacGregor ; Rozario ;
Vaughan ; Napier ; H. M. Temple.)
BIKARAN, VIKArAN or DlKARAN—
One of a number of small hamlets known collectively as Kalateh-i-’Arab-
u- 5 Ajam. It is in Khorasan on the old post road from Meshed to Shah-
rud via Robat-i-Gaz and Sharifabad.
Bikaran is 54 miles from Shahrud and 47 from Sharifabad. In the latter
route no permanent habitations are met with, and no water.— {Stewart.)
BlKH KAND—
See Baghchand.
BILDAR-
A village 12miles from Meshed, to tne nguu Ol AUltVi. I/O Nishapur
via Turuqbeh.— {Schindler.)
BILQlS—
See Shahr-i-Bilqis.
BILUN—
A village in the Gunabad buluk of the Tabas district in Khorasan,—
{MacGregor; Bellew.)
BILURl—
A village in the Kain buluk of the district of the same name in Khorasan
— {Bellew.)

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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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