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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [65r] (134/820)
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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CH’ACH’ALI—
A small stream in the Persian Yamut country in the Astarabad district
" between Dash Kupri mound and Badrak, 12 miles from Kujuk, 3 miles
from Dash Kupri and 2 miles from Badrak.— (C. E. Yate.)
CHAHAK— Elev. 4,100'—{Napier.)
A village in Khorasan, 30 miles nor’-nor’-west of Birjand. It is situated
on a bare, flat plain impregnated with salt, and contains about 50 houses
of one sort or another, inhabited by Arabs. There is scarcely any cultiva
tion about it. The water of the canal (Jcdriz) is brackish. Supplies are
procurable. — [MacGregor ; Napier.)
CH AH AK-I-MUH AMM AD AB AD—
A halting-place in Khorasan, on the road between Turshiz and Birjand
76 miles from the latter place. Water plentiful.—(MacGregor.)
CHlH DAKUlEH— Lat. 30° 35'; Long. 56° 55'.
A vilkge in Kirman, about 21 miles nor -nor -west of the city of that
name.— (SyJces, 1894.)
CHAH-I-’ALl—
A halting-place in Khorasan about halfway between Tabas and Sam-
nan. Water very scarce.— [MacGregor.)
CHAH-I-’ALIBAND—
A halting-place in Khorasan, 65 miles from Pusht-i-Badam, on the
road to Nishapur by Deh-i-Nau Band. There is a spring of sweet water
here, but no dwelling nor supplies.—((M.)
CHAH-I ’ALl NAQ—
A halting-place in Khorasan, on the road between Baiaza and Tabas,
about 96 miles from the latter place. Water plentiful, but no dwellings
nor supplies.— [MacGregor.)
CHAH-I-BIBAN—
A halting-place in Khorasan on the road between Turshiz and Birjand.
Water plentiful.— [MacGregor.)
CHAH-I-GUMBAD—
A ruined serai and a hauz or water reservoir on the road from Meshed
to Sarakhs by Akdarband. It is about 40 miles from Meshed.-(Kac-
Gregor.)
CHAH-I-JAM—
A halting-place for caravans on the direct road from Shahrud to Yazd
via Khur ; also on the road from Samnan to Khaf in Khorasan. It is
120 miles from Samnan and 60 from Shahrud ; has no inhabitants, bufe
possesses three wells of good water. Water is procurable by sinking
wells 12 feet deep through soft soil. Fuel and grass are procurable in the
neighbourhood.— [Stewart.)
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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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