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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎98v] (201/820)

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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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DUE- DUS
falls into the Duringar above Shuraq ; the valley of this stream is bounded
on the north by the Chuli range, and on the south by the Kupeh Dagh
watershed and one of its offshoots. Five villages are situated on this
stream, which has a very small volume of water.— (Napier; Yate ; 6‘ra-
noffsky, 1892.)
DfjRUD—
A river in Khorasan, rising in the hills to the south-west of Meshed
and flowing north-east into the Kashaf Rud. Its waters are diverted by
channels for the supply of the town of Meshed.— (Napier.)
DURUKFSH—
A village of some 80 or 100 houses in the Shakhan sub-division of Kaim
It is situated at the mouth of a long, narrow valley, which contains gardens
and water for 3 miles above the town. It is famous for its carpets, for
weaving which there are over 150 looms in this and the two neighbouring
villages. These carpets are almost entirely sent to Constantinople. Till
lately aniline dyes were extensively used, but fast colours are now being
used. Prices have more than doubled in the last year.
In 1909 Major Kennion noticed that the quality of the carpets had im
proved, and t!v t nearly all of them went to Russia.
Revenue 4,000 tumdns. — (Kennion, 1909.)
DURUNA— Lat. 35° 10' 23"; Elev. 2,900'.
A large walled village in the Khur-u-Turan sub-district of Shahrud
Bustam, on the border of the Turshiz district of Khorasan, on the east
confines of the Dasht-i-Kavir and about *20 miles west of the town of
Turshiz. Its inhabitants are said to be of purely Persian descent. •
The place possesses extensive fruit gardens, and a considerable amount
of wheat cultivation. Fruit in season,—figs, and apricots.
The village is supplied with water by a qandt which flows from the
Kuh-i-Dmuna, a higher mountain 2 miles to the north.— (Napier;
Vaughan ; Schindler.)
DURUYEH—
A village in Khorasan, 11 miles north of Meshed, on the road to Kalat
i-Nadiri.— (MacGregor.)
DtJSHAKH—
An isolated hill south of the Bakharz range in the Turbat-i-Shaikh
Jam district in Khorasan, and divided from it by a strip of plain, along
which runs the road from Ghurian to Khaf.— (Napier.)
DUSKING AN—
A hamlet in Khorasan, 40 miles from Blrjand, on the road to Khaf.—
(Stewart.)
DUSTABAD (No. 1)—Lat. 33° 40' 54" ; Long. 58° 37' 15".
An open village in Khorasan of 100 houses, inhabited by Persians, 57
miles north-west of Birjand, on the road from Tun.— (Ferrier.)

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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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