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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [78v] (161/820)
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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kind of cobra, called laras by the people of the district. The mountains
here are well covered with oak; deer (cctviis mufuT) and wild pig are
plentiful.— {Schindler.)
CHULLA Lat. 37° 41' 0"Long. 57° 5' O' 1 '.— {Intelligence Division, War
Office.)
A river in Northern Khorasan and a tributary of the Atrak river from
the south.— {Intelligence Division, War Office.)
CHUMUR—
A name given amongst the Yamut Turkomans to those tribes of theirs who
possess herds and camels and dwell in fixed camps, in contradistinction
to the Ghdrvds, who are the migratory tribes.
The Chumur are cultivators and do not quit the Gurgan lands on both
banks of thac river ; but some of them bring their camps quite close to
the Astarabad jungle in the winter, and withdraw again to their usual
localities during the summer months. It is calculated that the Chumurs
number 4,600 families.
{See Chirvas and Yamut.)—(#. Thomson ; C. E. Yate.)
CHUNDA ’ABBAS— Lat. 37° 23' 0" ; Long. 56° 9" 0'.—{Napier.)
A depopulated village in Kurdish Khorasan, near the western edge of the
Dasht-i-Armutli plateau, and about 46 miles from the village of Nar-
din.— {Napier.)
CHUNl—
A tribe of Yamut Turkomans, the chief division of which is the Ateh
Bah The following are the divisions, localities, and number of tents of
this tribe :—
Au li Bai
• Daz
Igdar
Kan Yukhmaz
Quuhaq
“For sub-divisions and further
Yate.)
CHUNLl—
.. Mostly p 350 ^
.. | between the j 1,000 |
.. Atrak and <{ 300 ^-2,250
.. | Gurgan | 300 |
.. J rivers. b 300 J
details see “Yamut”.— {Thomson",
C. E.
See Chuli.
CHUPAN—
A range of high hills forming the Russian frontier north of Kuclan, and
parallel to the range bounding the Jiristan sub-division of the Kuchan
district on the north.— {C. E. Yate.)
CHUPIN—
A small village on the right of the road between Davarzan and Mihr in
the Mazlnan sub-division of Sabzawar in Khorasan. Supplies procurable in
small quantities .—{Mania Bakhsh.)
CHUQANLI—
A small village in the Jiristan sub-division of the Kuchan district in
Northern Khorasan, about 18 miles from Tarkharan.— {MacLean.)
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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