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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [70v] (145/820)
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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126
CHA—CHA
CHASHMEH-I-GUSHEH TUT—
See Gush>li Tut.
CHASHMEH-l-HAET-I-CHIN AR—
A number of springs in the Chunash pass near Tilabad. They form
the Haft Chinar river which runs into the Gurgan.— [Schindler.)
CHASHMEH-I-TH AQl—
A spring, 13 miles from Naiband, on the edge of the Dasht-i-Lut. There
are a few date-palms \\exQ.~-(Stewart.)
CHASHMEH-I-KAB ABEH—
A spring in Northern Khorasan, 12 miles south-west of Jajarm, on the
road to Bustam. There is no other water from Jajarm to Robat-i-Savanj,
24 miles.— (Napier ; Schindler.)
CHASHMEH-I-KHUNI—
A spring in Khorasan halfway between ’Abbasabad and Pul-i-Abrisbam.
Close to it is a small mud fort called Kaleh-i-Gazi, formerly occupied by
matchlockmen to guard the road against Turkomans.— (Schindler.)
CHASHMEH-I-KHURl—
A well, 20 miles from Khur on the road to Tun.— (H. D. Napier.)
CHASHMEH-I-KHWAJA HASAN—
A stage in Khorasan, 8| miles from Robat-i-Khan, on the road from
Yazd to Tabas. The water here is sweet, but there is no habitation except
a deserted house with traces of former cultivation.— (Gill.)
CHASHMEH-I-MlR HASAN—
A small village in the Meshed district of Khorasan, about 1 mile to the
east of the Band-i-Fariman (q.v.). — (Sykes, 1905.)
CHASHMEH-I-MUHAMMAD MlRZA—
A spring about 23 miles south of Meshed on the road from Sharifabad.
— (Rozario.)
CHASHMEH-I-NUHUR—
A small spring on the northern face of a rocky gorge between Chahrakhts
and Mi] nab ad in the Kain district of Khorasan, 24 miles from Chahrakhts
and 13 miles from Mijnabad.
No habitation. No supplies procurable.— (C. E. Yate.)
CHASHMEH-I-SABZ (No. 1.)—Elev. 7,700'.
A spring or little lake in a basin in the hills north-east of Nishapur in the
Gulmakan sub-division of the Meshed district of Khorasan, 13 miles from
Gulmakan, about 28 miles from Nishapur, and about 48 miles from Meshed.
There seems to be no doubt that the lake is very ancient, and that it was
much larger in former times than it is at present. A ledge of the former
shore is still pointed out by old local guides, and it is said that the basin in
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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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