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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎66r] (136/820)

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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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CHA—CHA
117
CHAH-I-SEfDR—
A halting-place in Khorasan, the fifth stage between Deh-i-Nau and
Robat-i-Chah, about 64 miles frcm ( Tabas on the road to Sabzawar.
The water is bad here, and no supplies are procurable.— (MacGregor.)
CHAH-I-SIAH—
A stage in Khorasan, 56 miles from Sultanabad (Turshiz), on the road
to Nishapur.— (MacGregor.)
chAh-i-surkh—
A resting-place for caravans in Khorasan on the road from Khaf to
Ghurian, about 26 miles from the later place, on the Afghan frontier.
There are ho inhabitants, and but one well of water.— (Stewart.)
CHAH-I-ZAGHUDA— Lat. 35° 47' O" ; Long. 56° 32' (Napier.)
A stage in Khorasan, 88 miles from Shahrud on the road to Turshiz.
There is a well here of doubtful water, situated a short distance off the
road to the south. No supplies are obtainable except firewood.— (Taylor.)
CHAH-I-ZARD—
A halting-place in Khorasan between Tabas and Tehran, six stages
from the latter place ; water scarce.— (MacGregor.)
CHAH KURA— Lat. 31° 32'; Long. 56° 59'; Elev. 4,320'.
A halting place in Khorasan on the road from Birjand to Kirman, some
21 miles north of Ravar. From here the Tabas road via Gujur branches
off : it is used by a good many pilgrims. There is a serai, but no supplies
are obtainable, except fuel and forage in very small quantit es. A well of
good water, and a spring of brackish water.— (Mohi-ud-Din ; Sykes.)
CHAHRAKHTS or CHAHRAKHT— Elev. 2,303'.
A village in the Zirkuh sub-division of Birjand in Khorasan, situated
some six miles east of Bamrud on the southern slopes of the Kuh-i-Bamrud.
It is 58 miles east of Kain, 16 miles from Ahangaran, and 37 miles from
Mijnabad. The old town was founded by Amir Timur Gurgan’s son, Shah-
rukh Shah.
The village lies within a quadrilateral enclosure surrounded by a wall,
20 feet high and from 2 or 3 feet thick, 200 yards long by 150 broad,
and flanked by towers at the corners and in the centre. It is a place
of some importance, as it is situated on the main road between Birjand
and Herat. A good many caravans pass through this place on their
way from Ghurian to Birjand. The whole interior is one mass of houses.
The passages run into little, open squares, from which the people
obtain access to their abodes, which are all in the second storey over the
passages.
The village contains about 1,200 people has three qandts ol water, 2,900
sheep and 20 ploughs of cultivation, producing about 160 kharwdrs of
grain and 100 kharwdrs of tobacco, sold at 3 Krans per Tabriz maund.
The outturn is not sufficient for its own consumption and it has to

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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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