'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [69r] (142/820)
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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CHAR KALDU—
A small village in the Shirvan sub-division of Kucban in Northern
Khorasan, situated on the Ugha stream at the base of the Baghan hill,
about 14 miles from Shirvan.— {MacLean.)
CHARMAGAN or CHEHAR MAGAN—
A tributary of the Atrak river in Northern Khorasan. It flows north
from the Aleh Dagh range, and joins the Atrak just beyond the town ot
Shirvan.— (Petrusevitch.)
CHARMARAN—
A village containing about 100 families in the Isfarain district of Kho
rasan.— (H. M. Temple.)
CHARMAST—
A village containing 40 families of Bughiri Turks, m the Bam-Safiabad
district of Khorasan.— {H. M. Temple.)
CHARYA—
A name given to those tribes of Yamut Turkomans who possess cattle,
horses, and flocks, and who are always moving about, changing their camps
for summer and winter ; visiting for pasturage localities north of the Atrak
River as far as Balkan in one direction, and m the other eastwards as far as
Kara Kala, which is about 112 miles from Bupmrd. They are called
Charvas in contradistinction to the settled tribes of Yamuts who dwell m
fixed camps. These latter are called Chumurs. The Charvas keep more to
the north^towards the Atak. 'For a considerable part of the year, they
are away in the Balkan and Misrian districts, and some of their camps
move onto near Kizil Arvat and the Akhal country ; but they all return
during the harvest season to the Atak and Gurgan districts for the pur
pose of reaping and storing their gram.
The Charvas remaining in or visiting Persian territory are estimated to
be about 2,400 families.
See ‘‘Yamut.”— [Thompson ; G. E. Yate.)
chashm
A village in the Mazinan sub-division ot the Sabzawar district of Khora
san, situated to the right of the road, between Davarzan and Mihr. up-
plies procurable in small quantities— (Mania Bakhsh.)
CHASHMEH ’ALT KAL-
A camping ground, at an altitude of 8,200 feet, at the Western end of
the Kutal-i-Ughrai Darreh (?.*.), in a sheltered position; plentiful graz-
i n g.— (Major P. M. Sykes, 1909.)
CHASHMEH BUR 3 (Kirman)—
A halting place, 27 miles from Kirman, on the Kirman-Tabas road, via
the Dasht-i-Duh. — (Kinneir).
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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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