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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎51v] (107/820)

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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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To the north 7 o* 8 miles of impracticable ground intervene between ihn
plateau and the Garma Khan, a tributary of the Atrak. North-east
is a high peak known as the Akhir Kuh-,,or “ last mountain, ” so called
because westwards and northwards as far as the outer Atrak ridge and
Karl Kara there is nothing visible but a wide expanse of comparatively
low, broken country, formed of ridges and plateaux cut up by innumerable
Maneh and Simalqan. ravines. From the base of this peak north-
,, + ,, west the fertile valley of Maneh descends to the
Atrakv Westward, across the mountain barrier*
lies the wide plateau of Simalqan, broken by many deep ravines*
reaching to the Atrak from the base of the Kurkhud peak. South and
south-west rise the lofty mountains, Aleh Dagh, Kuh-i-Saluk, and Takht-i-
Mirza, beyond which is the plain of Isfarain and Juvain. West of Aleh-
Dagh is the prominent Kurkhud peak, and along the base of both moun
tains stretches the plateau or plain of Shaughan, draining south, and
extending to Chandir and the Gurgan.
The plateau of Bujnurd has a height of 3,200 feet. Maneh, Simalqan and
Shaughan are lower, but all have an equally fertile soil and ample water.
The mountains, for the most part of limestone and trap, afford good
pasturage and often wide tracts of arable land, bearing good crops of
wheat and barley. They are well-wooded on their northern slopes
with juniper. To the west a thin forest of deciduous trees extends up
the valleys.
The plain of Isfarain and Jajarm is parched and arid in the extreme,
and could under no circumstances support a large population. The soil is*
however, alluvial and fertile, and well repays irrigation where practicable.
This plain drains west and south past Jajarm into the Kal-i-Shur, and
thence to the kavir. It is divided from Juvain on the south by a low
range of hills.
The plateau of Bujnurd itself is so enclosed by mountains and so
R situated, that no important road, either com
mercial or military, will ever pass through it.
The valley of the Atrak and that of its tributary the Garma Khan, are
absolutely impracticable as a highway through the chain of Elburz, and the
routes north to the Atrak, described in a previous report, are such as
would be avoided by traders or by modern armies.
A route that may at some future time have importance passes from
Bustam through Jajarm and Isfarain, in the. south of the chiefship, to
Meshed ; and the old trade route to Gurgan traverses the plain of
Isfarain and the plateau of Shaughan.
The mass of the population of Bujnurd are, as above noted, Kurds of
p the Shadillu tribe, who inhabit chiefly Bujniird
opn a ion, itself and the frontier villages of Simalqan and
Maneh. The chief of Bujnurd estimates their present number at 15,000
families. Seven per cent, of the population are Turks. The town of
Bujnurd has 1,500 houses, chiefly of Shadillu ; but there are also a few
families of Za’afaranlu, political refugees, and of Tajiks and Turks driven
by famine from other districts. On the plateau and in the hill-skirts

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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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