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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎103r] (210/820)

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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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FAR—FAR
189
The production of wheat and barley (§ wheat, J barley) in ordinary years
amounts to about 28,000 Indian maunds. The water-supply is from
a stream furnished by the Band-i-Fariman {q.v.), situated in the hills 7 miles
to the south. There is a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). in the village.
The plain on which Faiiman is situated produces excellent pasture, and
the place is renowned for an excellent breed of cows.— (Wanliss, 1903 ;
Sykes, 1905.)
FARlMAN (No. 2 )—Elev. 3,900'.
A small village in the Isfarain district of Khorasan, 7 miles from the
ruins of the old town of Isfaraln (now called Shahr-i-Bilqis) and about
11 miles from Mianabad, the present principal village of the district, on
the road to Sankhas. ,
It contains about 30 families. To the east of the village, close to an
Imdjnzddeh, stands a mud fort, which is said to mark the site of a former
city built by Faridun of the Pishdadian dynasty.
The village of Fariman is doubtless a corruption of Faridun, and the
village next to it is called Iraj after Faridun’s son. Water good.— {C. E.
Yate.)
FARlMAN (No. 3)—
A village of 70 houses in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, five miles
south-east of Jaghatai.— [Schindler.)
FARISHIAN—
The westernmost village in the Jaghatai-Juvain plain on the borders
of the Jajarm district, Khorasan.
FAR1ZABAD—
A village in the district of Kain, Khorasan.—(-Mew.)
FARKHAN—
A village in the Kuchan district of Khorasan, about 15 miles from
Kuchan, on the road to Meshed. The population consists of 100 families
of Turks and Kurds who own 350 cattle, 3,000 sheep and goats, 300
camels, and 30 horses. The annual production of wheat and barley is
1,000 kharwdrs—(Schindler ; Oranoffsky, 1894; Smyth, 1906.)
FARMA—
The first halting place, 21 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri.— (Kinneir.)
FARMANABAD—
A village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, 16 miles north-east of
Qarat, and 6 miles south-west of Kariz. It contains about 100 Bakharzi
houses, or some 500 souls in all. Three savdrs of the Russian quarantine
cordon are posted there.— (Sykes, 1905.)
FARRUKHlBAD—
A village in Khorasan, about 8 miles north-east of Shahrud, situated
‘ on the borders of a desert. The village is in a ruinous state, but there
is a, good caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). and abundance of water.— (Gibbons.)

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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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