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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎103v] (211/820)

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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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190
FAR—F^S
FARSHlBlD—
A deserted village in the district of Shahrud, beween the town of that
name and Maiamai. It also is called Rahmatabad, and is probably the
same as Farrukhabad {q.v.).~-(Bellew; Rozario.)
FARSIAN, PARSlAN, FARS, or FARSlAN-I-FARANG—
A village containing about 300 families, situated on the hillside on the
right bank of the stream going to Firang, in the Kuhsar sub-district
of Astarabad.—(IfocZeaw.) See Pers an.
FAR0MAD or FARlUMAD-FlRtZABAD (District)—
A buluJc (sub-district) of the Shahrud-Bustam district, north of Mazi-
nan. It is a small, hilly tract lying across the Kal-i-Shur, on the borders
of Juvain and Sabzawar. It pays to the State a yearly revenue of about
1,202 tumdns, 500 kharwdrs of grain and the same quantity of straw. Its
principal place is the old town of Fadumad with a population of about
1,500 souls. The other villages of this sub-district are very small, they are
Firuzabad, Istaruad, Kalateh-i-Mulla, Abbasabad, Sadrabad and Kalat-
i-Sa’adat.— (Napier ; Schindler.)
FARUMAD, FARlUMAD or FARAMARZ (Village)—Lat 36° 29' 50**
Long. 56° 41' 10".-(Napier.) -oo do ,
A large village in, and principal place of, the sub-district Fariumad-
riruzabad of the Shahrud-Bustam district, 16 miles north of the Pul i
Abrisham (bridge) on the Shahrud-Meshed high road, and about the same
distance from Mazinan. It was formerly an important town, but suffeied
severely from the famine years of 1870-72, and in 1874 had onlv 200
houses inhabited. Amongst the ruins of the old town is that of a very
strong fort. These ruins extend to about a mile eastwards of the new
t ?™; J he n6W t0Wn Wal1 Wlth its towers “d ditch was constructed
about 50 years ago m Muhammad Shah’s reign. The present population
n the town is about 1 500. The town is watered by a subterranean canal
and by a stream, which comes from the Garma Kuh, the western part
of the Jaghatai mountains, and after passing Fariumad runs towards
Mazinan. This stream is mostly dry. It has, however, after heavy
rains a great quantity of water. In 1870 it swept away the greater part
of Mazinan and other villages. Fariumad pays a yearly tax of 280 lumans
130 iWaaes of grain and 130 iWars of straw, and gives a contingent
alts me f n j t0 R; Arab-u-A]am regiment. Large flocks of sheep and
goats are fed on the plains around the village. The plateau on which
it stands is wide and has fine trap soil. There is good water here and
ample supplies of gram.—(Vaper; Schindler.)
FASHTINIK—
R mi Wn iT ?4i BaSh !? sub - dlstnct of Sabzawar, situated about
8 miles to the north of the road from Mihr to Ribad. It has a little cultiva
tion and a few gardens which contain hardly any fruit except sour pome
granates. Water good. Supplies scarce.—(il/awfo Bakhsh.)
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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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