'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [62r] (128/820)
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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trophies; big reception rooms, in which is a good deal of cheap and showy
Austrian and German ware of the kind that seems to attract the Eastern
fancy ; a gun room, and so on,—the whole perhaps a little more elaborate
than the size of the State and its resources would lead one to expect. It is
said, indeed, that the present Chief was at first a good deal handicapped
by the amount of money his father had spent on the palace and its
fittings.
The town has eleven Mahallehs which are as follows:—Shahr-i-Taza,
Vasat, Darvazeh-i-Gurgan, Sultan, Masjid-i-Haji Muhammad Khan , Sarban,
Sar-i-Mahalleh, Darvazeh-i-Kuchan, Shaikh Muhammad Taki, Haji Mulla
Naki, Haji Mulla Ibrahim. There are four mosques and five public baths.
The citadel having become ruined, the Governor, Yar Muhammad Khan,
Sahm-ud-Dauleh, built himself a house outside the town in the garden
of Yazdan Quli Khan, his father. Other fine gardens outside the town
are Bagh-i-Dilkusha of Ja’afar Quli Khan,
IlkhanI
The paramount chief of certain tribes in south west Iran.
; Bagh-i-Amir Guna Khan,
Bagh-i-Haidar Quli Khan, Bagh-i-’Ali Murad Khan, Bagh-i-Kahar Quli
Khan, and others. South of the town and surrounded by fine old trees is
the grave of Sultan Saiyid ’Abbas ibn-Musa-ibn-Kaziam.
There is a post office and a Persian Government telegraph office in the
town. The only manufactures are copper pots and striped silks as made
elsewhere in Northern Khorasan, also woollen and silk socks, gloves and
purses.— {MacGregor; Schindler; C. E. Yate ; Keyes; Mania Bakhsh ;
Reunion, 1906.) r
BUKUM—
A village of KhorasSn, about 12 miles from Khaf, on the road to Kain.—*
{Stewart.) i
BULAND BARAN— :
A village of 40 houses in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, 1 mile
south of Ramshin.— {Schindler.)
BULAND SUFALIEH— Elev. 5,200'.
A halting-place in the Quzluq pass, about 30 miles south-east of Astar-
abad. It is between the villages of Kiarat and ’Aliabad on the road from
Astarabad to the latter. There is a spring of water here, and an open down
suitable for camping.— {Lovett.)
BULGHUR (River)—
See Pirzu.
BULUK-I-DARRUD—
A sub-division of the Zahar Khan buluk of the Nishapur district of
Khorasan, also the name of the principal village in that sub-division. The
sub-division consists of a large valley in the extreme east of the district,
stretching from the north-east to the south-east corner, and watered by
the Darrud stream. The population, 2,000 families of Persians and
Baiat Turks, is dependent to a great extent on the produce of gardens and
vineyards. The revenue of the buluk is estimated at 3,000 tumdns. —
{Na'pier.)
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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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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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