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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [82r] (168/820)
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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DAR-DAR
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DARBAND-I-FIRUZEH—
A pass in Northern Khorasan, between the Saluq (or Firuzeh) and Aleh
Dagh mountains, 8| miles west of Bujnurd, on the road to Jajarm; it is
a wide and open pass with a good road. The greatest ascent is 150 feet.—
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-HISAR—
A narrow pass in Kurdish Khorasan, about 22 miles east of Shlrvan,
on the road to Darreh Gaz by Imam Quli; on both sides of the pass are pre
cipitous heights ; those on the north being called the Dagh-i-Shah.—
(Napier.)
DARBAND-I-JUR—
A pass in Khorasan, about 65 miles from Meshed, on the road to
Kalat-i-Nadiri. It is composed of a succession of very narrow defiles,
divided by small open spaces, and flanked by column-like walls of rock.—
(MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KHAKISTAR—
A pass in Khorasan on the road from Kalat to Darreh Gaz, and 6 or 7 miles
west of the village of Igdaliq. The road, having entered this defile, con
tinues up it for nearly an hour, over huge boulders, passing by positions
of gre it strengh, particularly at a part 30 feet wide, where a wall, 15
feet high, has been erected across, and where towers on both sides com
mand the entrance. Beyond the wall there is a succession of 4 or 5
little glens filled with trees, and connected with each other by narrow
defiles.— (MacGregor.)
D ARBAND-I-KHW A JA—
A pass in Northern Khorasan, 11 miles from Kalat-i-Nadiri, on the
road to Sarakhs.— (MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-KUSHTANI—
A pass in Kalat-i-Nadiri, Khorasan, forming the principal entrance to
this natural fortress on the north-east. The fort here is defended by
Persian Infantry.— (Napier ; MacGregor.)
DARBAND-I-NAFTA—
A pass or narrow gap in the north wall of the natural fortress of Kalafc-
i-Nadiri, about 7 miles from Guk Gumbnd, the chief village in Kalat. It
is the outlet of the Kalat stream from the plateau, and a road leads from
it to Dushakh.— (Napier.)
DARBAND-I-QARDEH—
A pass in Khorasan, 20 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri. It is a narrow gorge shut in by a high mountain formed of
immense, tabular masses of metamorphic rock, which form a high outer
barrier of inaccessible crags, rising to a height of 1,000 to 1,500 feet above
the hill skirts.— (Napier.)
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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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