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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎49v] (103/820)

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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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BIR—B1V
Kaleh-i-Bala, Gabar, Dizian, Kaleh-i-Ahmad with Bagh-i-Zain-nl-Abidin,
Kazazan (not Shah Sasan as in some maps), Thirabad and Dast-i-Glrd. The
mountains in the south of the district have rich copper mines which have
been worked for many years. Some of the ores contain 48 per cent, of
metal. The mines on the hills to the north have been abandoned long ago.
The hills to the south are also famous for the fine mushrooms, called
samarugh, which grow on them.— {Schindler.)
BlRJUMAND (No. 2) or BIRJUN— Lat. S5 q 59' 30"; Long. 55° 47'.—
{Napier.)
Chief place of the BIrjumand sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam. It has
about 1,200 inhabitants, and is distant about 48 miles from Shahrud
on the road to Turshiz. It is Government property and held in fief by
the Mu’aiyir-uI-Mamalik.— {Schindler.)
BLSH AGHAJ—
A village in Khorasan, on one of the roads from Sabzawar to Kuchin.
It contains 100 houses, and has good water and some supplies.—
{MacGregor.)
BTSH QARDASH— ™ “ “ —
A spring and stream in Khorasan, 5 or 6 miles from Bujnurd, on the
road to Jajarm. Sardar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. Yar Muhammad Khan, the chief of the Shadillu
tribe, and Governor of Bujnurd, has built a blue-tiled, domed mausoleum
for himself, lined with brown marble, just above the spring, as he wishes
to be buried here and not at Karbala or Meshed, like his ancestors.—
{Napier ; C. E. Yate.)
BISH YGSQA—
A settlement of about 600 families of Ja’afarbai Turkomans in the Astari"
bad district, at the mouth of the old bed of the Gurgan river, 5 or 6 miles
south of Khwaja Nafas.— (C. E. Yate, 1894.)
BIVAZHAN or PIVAZHAN (No. 1)—
The principal village of the Bivazhan sub-division of the Meshed district
in Khorasan, situated in a fertile valley some miles to the north of Fakhr-i-
Daud, and about 30 miles from Nishapur. It pays a yearly revenue of
7,005 Jcrdns cash and 33 kharwdrs grain, and has over 150 houses.—
(Schindler.)
BIVAZHAN or PIVAZHAN (No. 2.) (District)—
A high, barren plateau in Khorasan, south of Meshed. It is dotted with
16 or 18 fort villages, which are remarkable from the absence of gardens
or trees about them. The plain presents. a gently undulating pasture-
covered surface, extending for many miles east and west, and forms a long,
narrow strip between the deserts on either side. To the eastward it drops
suddenly by a very broken surface to the Sar-i-Jam district, which presents
a wide waste of red clay hummocks. To the westward Bivazhan drops on to
the plain of N.shapur on the one hand, and the Jcavir of Yunsi on the other.
Bivazhan is a bululc of the Meshed district. Its territory extends from
Turucj on the ea&t to the Suravan river on the west.

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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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