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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎105r] (214/820)

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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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FIJRtfT—
A small fort in Khorasan, about 11 miles west of Mesbed, situated in a
cultivated and generally plain country, with many fortified villages in
the vicinity.— (Forster.)
FILLI— Lat. 37° 17' 0" ; Long. 58° 50' 0"—(Stewart).
A village in the Darreh Gaz district of Khorasan, about 10 miles west of
Muhammadabad.— (Stewart.)
FINDUKHT— Elev. 3,627'.
A village of 40 houses in the Zir Kuh sub-division of Blriand.—
(H.D. Napier.)
FIRING, FARING, or FARANG-I-FARSHAN—
A village of considerable size in Astarabad, situated on the Kuhsar
plateau, and containing about 1,000 houses.— (Napier.)
FIRINJ—
A small walled village of Khorasan in the Alghur buluk of the Kain
district. It is on the road between Eirjand and Kain, and has some vine
yards and patches of corn cultivation.— (Belleiv.)
FIRIZl— Elev. 5,100'— (C. E. Yate).
A large village situated in a glen in the Chinaran buluk of the Meshed
district in Khorasan, 8 miles south of Chinaran. The population is estimat
ed at 300 families of Saiyids, Tajiks and Za’afaranlu Kurds. The people
have little corn land, and are greatly dependent on the sale of walnuts and
other fruit. The Firizi people say that they sell about 1,000 tumdns
worth of walnuts a year, hhey dispose of them to Russians, Armenians,
and others at Nisbapur where the walnuts realize about 12 lumdns a
'khanvdr or 3 brans per 1,000. One tree is said to yield a crop of 10,000
walnuts. A big walnut tree is valued at about 10 tumdns here. The
revenue of Firizi amounts to 300 tumdns in cash and 15 kharwdrs of grain
per annum.—(Napier ; C. E. Yate ; Maula Bakhsh.)
FIRIZNEH-
A village on the eastern frontier of Khorasan, being the last on Persian
soil between Khaf and Ghurian. The country between it and Shirabad,
the first Afghan village, is fertile.— (Stewart.)
FIRUGEH—
A large village of Khorasan, situated on a plateau in the Kuchan
district, just south of the crest of the Atak range.—(Aapfer.)
FlRUZABAD (No. 1)—
A village in the Shahrud district, situated in a wild glen in the Jaghatab
mountains drained by the stream called Pul-i-Abrisham. It belongs
to the buluk of Farumad.— (Napier.)
FlRUZABAD (No. 2)—
A village situated in the Kain valley, If miles north-east of Kain. It
contains 50 houses and has 70 inhabitants, 30 cattle, and 300 sheep and
48 LB. o -r.

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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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