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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [104r] (212/820)
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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FASQAE—
A village situated to the right of the road from Kibad to Sabzawar in
Khorasan. Water good. Supplies procurable in small quantities.—
(Maula Bakhsh.)
FATHABAD (No. 1)—
A village 27 miles north-west of Meshed, on the road to Kuchan.—
(Schindler.)
FATHABAD (No. 2)—
A village 4 miles from (old) Kuchan on the road to Meshed. It has
30 houses. It was here that Nadir Shah was murdered in June 1747. A
ruined fort on a hill close by is called Kaleh-i-AkasI and was built in 1840
by Akasi Beg, servant of Allah Yar Khan, Asaf-ud-Dauleh, Governor
of Khorasan.— (Schindler.)
FATHABAD (No. 3)—
An open village in Bam-Safiabad sub-district of Meshed in Khorasan,
12 miles from Yankijeh and the same distance from Bam. It contains
about 40 families of Bughiri Turks. Water good. Supplies procurable.
— (C. E. Yate.)
FATHABAD (No. 4)—
A village in the Kuh Paleh sub-district of Sbahrud-Bustam.— (Schindler)
FATHABAD (No. 5)—
A small village in the Tun bnluk of the district Tabas, 40 miles from the
town of the latter name, on the road to Nishapur.— (Bellew; Stewart.)
FATHABAD (No. 6)—
A village in Khorasan, second stage from Meshed, on the Herat road.
It consists of small fort with mud walls, and some poor huts outside;
and is'the residence of many Saiyids.—(Pt%.)
FAYUJ—
See Qirishmar.
FAZ—
A village of Khorasan, 35 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadiri.— (Kinneir.)
FAZILMAND—
A village in Khorasan, south of Turbat-i-Haidari. It contains about
40 families ; and as it possesses two artificial watercourses of brackish water,
a good deal of ground about it is cultivated. Its inhabitants are chiefly
nomads, with a few Kizilbash peasants. A party of CO Timuri horse*
men was formerly stationed here to watch the plundering hordes of the
Turkomans from Merv.— (Forbes.)
FAZLABAD— Lat. 37° 22' 0"; Long. 58° 48' 0".—(Stewart.)
A village in Northern Khorasan, 15 miles north-west of Muhammadabad
in Darreh Gaz.— (Stewart.)
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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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- 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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