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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [74v] (153/820)
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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■and Bakharz districts. There are some families in the Zurabad districts also.
Isma’il Khan is at present (1898) the chief of all the Sunni Hazaras m
Khorasan and is about 52 years of age. He was made an Amir Tiiman
^Major-General) and granted the title of Shuja’-ul-Mulk by the late Nasir-
fid-DIn Shah in 1894. t
In 1896 he was again appointed Governor of Bakharz, which appointment
he still (1898) holds.
He lives at Meshed himself, and his brother Sartip Muhammad Raza
Khan is Deputy Governor of Bakharz on his behalf.
The Shuja’-ul-Mulk has a son named’Abdul Faiz Khan, aged 22 years.
The other ’Amaq tribe, Qipchaq, is too far away from the Persian border
to need mention in detail .—[StewartMaula Bakhsh ,)
CHEHARBAGH.— Elev. 7,100'.
A gipsy encampment, consisting of a tower and some enclosures, m the
Astarabad district, between Chehar Deh and Ziarat, on the road to Astar-
abad from Mazandaran.
It is situated in a valley of the same name, hemmed in by the Lari and
Lindi mountains to the north and by the Shah Kuh range to the south.
The valley is reached by crossing the Quzluq Kutal at the head of the
valley (north-west), and then descending from 7,600 feet, the level of the
water parting, to 7,100 in the neighbourhood of Cheharbagh.
The scenery changes as if by magic, and is very different from that of
the Caspian provinces. The valley presents a dull, uniform, yellow ochre
tint, mitigated by a sparse sprinkling of funeral-looking yews and hum
mocks of heather and thistles. There is good water here and pasturage.
Fuel is scarce and no grain is obtainable.—(Love# > Napier).
CHEHAR BID—
A village of 40 houses, inhabited by Shadillu_Kurds, at the eastern end
cf the Shaugh’n plain and at the foot of the Aleh Dagh ; about 20 miles
eouth-west of Bujnurd. It has an old fort.— (Schindler.)
CHEHAR BURJ (No. 1)—
A village in the Meshed district of Khorasan, 14 miles north-west of
Meshed. It has a population of 50 Khorasani families who possess 200
cattle and 1,000 sheep and goats. The annual production of wheat and
barley is 300 kharwdrs.— (Oramffsky, 1894 ; Smyth, 1906.)
CHEHAR BURJ (No. 2)—
A village containing 40 families of Diranlu (Shadillu) Kurds in the
Isfarain district of Khorasan. on the road from Mianabad to Sankhas,
7 miles from Fariman and 19 miles from Sankhas. From the nature of
the soil and the broken pottery about, it appears that it must have been
a large place in former days.— (C. E. Yate.)
CHEHAR DEH (No. 1)— Elev 2,000'.—(Vaughan.)
A small village in Khorasan, 10 miles from Tabas, on the road to Khur.
Vaughan says : 17 miles west of Tabas on the western confines of the
Dasht-i-Kavir. It contained only 50 houses in 1875, having suffered much
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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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