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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [63r] (130/820)
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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BURJ-I-GARM—
A stage in Khorasan, on the road from Bushuria to Kirman, and
73£ miles distant from the former town. There is some bad water here,
but no supplies.— (MacGregor.)
BURJ-I-KALEH—
A village 20 miles from Naukhandan, on the road to Khehan. It has
20 houses.— (Napier.)
BURJ-I-KHUDA BAKHSH— Elev. 2,400'.
Name of a tower and pass on the road from PuI-i-Khatun to Zurabad
via Pas Kamar, It is situated between Pas Kamar and Kal-i-Kirau or Kal-i-
Muhammad Haji, at about a couple of miles from the latter place.—
(Maclean.)
BUR J-I-L AN GAR—
A ruined watch-tower on the left of the road between Turbat-i-Haidari
and Meshed, 62 miles from the former town. Here the road and telegraph
line from Tehran come in from the west, and the Tehran line runs alongside
the Meshed-Sistan line to Meshed. There is a spring of good water.—
(G. Wanliss, August 1903.)
BURJ-I-MfRAN or BURJ-I-LlRAN—
A village near Nishapur, on the left, north of the road to Meshed.—
(Bellew.)
BURJ-I-NAVl KHAN—
A tower in Khorasan, 46 miles from Kain, on the road to Birjand. There
is some fallow land and a few willow trees about it.— (Rozario.)
BURJ-I-QALICH KHAN—Elev. 4,300'.
A tower and halting-place between Zurabad and Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam
being 17 miles from the former and 22 miles from the latter.
There is a good spring at Burj-i-Qalich Khan used in spring and summer
by Timurls. Fuel can be obtained by sending to the neighbouring hills.—
(Maclean.)
BURKABl—
A village in Khorasan, 17 miles from Sabzawar, on the road to Kuchan.
It possesses 50 houses with good water and supplies.— (MacGregor.)
burzalAbAd—
A village of 100 houses on the road from Kuchan to Bujnurd, 12 miles
from Shirvan towards Kuchan, from which it is distant about 20 miles. It
has an old square citadel called Kamar Tappeh, now ruined.—-(Afac^re^or ;
Schindler.)
BURZANDI—
A hamlet about 40 miles from Shahrud, on the road to Astarabad by
the Chilchilian pass.— (Napier,)
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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