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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [107v] (221/820)
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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GAR-GAR
Jajarm, Juvain and Sabzawar districts of Khorasan. Qazim Khan of
the Ramazanlu section (who were the Khavanin and chiefs of the Garili
Turks in Khorasan) gained favour with Nadir Shah, and was Governor
of Jajarm during his reign. The Garili Turks have no tribal chief of
their own at present.— {Maula Bakhsh.)
GARMAB (No. 1)—
A small village in the Taghan Kuh sub-division of the Sabzawar
district in Khorasan, to the north of the road from Za’afarani to Zamanabad.
Supplies procurable in small quantities.— {Maula Bakhsh.)
GARMAB (No. 2)— Elev. 3,900'.
A village of 12 houses in the Zir Kuh sub-division of Birjand on the road
between Rui Khaf and Tabas.—(//. D. Napier.)
GARMAB (No. 3)—
A river in Northern Khora-an, a southern affluent of the river Atrak.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
GARMAB (No. 4), SHAH AN-I-GARMAB or GARMAB-I-SHAHAN—
Name of hot sulphur springs with an old
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
a,ndi madraseh
of Shah ’Abbas, now in ruins, about 58 miles from Meshed via Kara Buqeh,
Shadicheh, Chehar Gumbsd, Kalleh Minar and Kamarzard. The water of
these springs is generally believed to possess healing properties, and a large
number of people visit them every year for bathing purposes. The build
ing over th ' springs contains a tank measuring 42' X 2' x 4'. Water and fire
wood procurable, but no supplies. —(Maula Bakhsh ; P. M. Sykes, 1907.)
GARMAB (No. 5)—
See Istiksu.
GARMAB (No. 6)-
A village containing 60 families to the east of the road from Mashkan
to Ma’dan in the Nishapur district of Khorasan.— (H. M. Temple.)
GARMA KHAN (No. 1) (District) —
It is a small, level valley containing half a dozen villages with a total of
about 150 families of Shadillu Kurds, and is well-watered from the Atrak.
—(<7. E. Yate.)
GARMA KHAN (No. 2) (River) —
See Su-i-Garma Khan.
GARMA KHAN (Village) (No. 3)— Elev. 2,440'—(Vawer), 3,000 —
(C. E. Yate).
A village in Khorasan, about 11 miles east by north from Bujnurd. A
fine tributary of the Atrak joins it near this village. Shirvan is 21 miles
south-east. Water, forage, fuel, and some supplies are procurable. The
district of Garma Khan is described as hot, and unhealthy on account of
the rice cultivation.— (Thomson; Napier; MacGregor.)
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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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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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