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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎78r] (160/820)

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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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CHI TLA— Lat. 37° 41/ 0", Long. 57° 5' 0".—{Intelligence Division, War
Office.)
A river in Northern Khorasan, and a tributary of the Atrak river from
the south.— [Intelligence Division, War Office.)
CHUL JAREH, CHEHIL JAR IB or CHEHIL HUJREH.— Elev. 3,500'.
A village miles from Meshed, half a mile to the right of the road to
Kuchan.— -[Schindler.)
CHULl (No. 1)— Lat. 37° 24' 30"; Long. 58° 29' 30" —{Napier,)
A village in the district of Kuchan, Khorasan, and 25 miles from the
town of Kuchan on the road to the Atak by the Davandpass. It contains
some 30 families of Narjanlu Kurds, who own 20 cattle, 1,000 sheep and
goats, and 15 camels. The normal annual production of wheat and
barley amounts to 550 and 800 Indian maunds, respectively. The
village is sometimes known as Chunli.— [Oranoffsky, 1894.)
CHULl (No, 2)—
Name of a tribe in Khorasan. The Chuiis are of Turkish origin and
speak both Turki and Persian. They were moved from Turkistan to
Khorasan during the Mongol reign. They are about 500 families at pre
sent, and are settled in a sub-district of Meshed called Chul-i-Khaneh after
their name. Their present chief is Hap Abul Path Khan, Chuli, aged 42.
He formerly held the Chul-i-Khaneh district as hereditary governor inde
pendent of Kalat-i-Nadiri, but has lately been superseded by Muhammad
Ibrahim Khan, brother of Muhammad Mehdl Khan, Covernor of Kalat-i-
Nadiri. He, however, continues to be recognized as head of the Chuli
tribe and his head-quarters are at Marush, one of the principal villages in
Chul-i-Khaneh, situated at about a farsakh from Balghur.— {Mania Bakhsh.)
CHUL-I-BlKH—
See Khush Yailaq.—
CHUL-I-KHANEH—
A sub-divisional hilly district in Khorasan 24 to 40 miles north of
Meshed, extending from the village of Andarukh to that of Harehkat, and it is
bounded on the north by Kalat-i-Nadiii, on the east by Taladkan and on
the west by Chinaran and Darzab, containing 16 villages, among which the
principal are Marush, Balghur, Sij, Al, Harehkat, Andarukh, Deh-i-Surkh,
Cush, and Qardeh. The chief of the sub-division resides at Marush, a village
about a farsakh from Balghur. The inhabitants of this sub-division are
Chuli Turks and Kurds, some 2,500 in number, and furnish forty horsemen
for the protection of the border.
A large quantity of opium is grown in this district. The revenue of the sub
division is tumdns 1.640 in cash, 210 kharwdrs of grain and 120 kharwdrs
of chopped straw.— {Napier; MacGregor ; C. E. Yate; Mania Bakhsh.)
CHCL-I-PURT—
A valley and mountain, west of Tilabad, and running in a north-westerly
direction towards the Gurgan valley. It abounds with big snakes, a

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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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