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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [108r] (222/820)
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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GARMlN—
A village in the Kuh Paieh sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam.-(Mm^er.)
GARM DASHT— Elev. 2,100'. , , t
A portion of the valley south of Ziarat, about 20 miles south-east o
Astarabad.— (Lovett.)
GARMEH (No. 1)— .
A village in Northern Khorasan, about i miles from Jajarm, on the
road to Shahrud by Nardin. It contains about 150 houses, the people of
which are entirely Persians—(Napier; MacGregor.)
GARMEH (No. 2)—
A village in Khorasan, 18 miles north-west of Khur, on the road to
Tabas.— (MacGregor .)
GASH (River)—
See Pirzu.
GASK or KASK— Elev. 5,600'—{Napier.)
A large village in south-eastern Khorasan, It lies 9
S Chah and about 30 from Birjand. The Tukriver flows at
miles south of Sari
Similes distance.
— (Stewart.)
GAYA
A village in the Kuh Banan sub-district of Kirman, about 28 miles north
of Zarand.— (Sykes., 1891)
GAVARISHK or KAVARISHK (District)—
One of the three sub-divisions of the Darzab buluk of Meshed in Kho
rasan. It is situated north of Tus and contains the following villages
G&varishk
Kajan.
Marian.
Zaq.
Abdavan.
Imdad.
Naqab.
Chakad.
(Maula Bakhsh.)
GAY ASH INLET .—
A village in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district of north-eastern Khorasan. It
consists of 100 families of Kurds who own 400 cattle and 10,000 sheep an
goats. The normal annual production of wheat and barley is 5,o00 and
2,400 Indian maunds, respectively.— (Oranoffsky, 1894.)
GAZ (No. 1)—Lat. 36° 46' 40"; Long. 54° 2' 10".
A village near the south shore of the Caspian, 23 miles west of Astarabad,
4 miles from Bandar-i-Gaz. It is a large, straggling village of 300 houses.
Eastwick says of it: “A more pestiferous jungle den can hardly be
imagined.”— (Eastwick.)
GAZ (No. 2) (Bandar), see Bandar-i-Gaz.
A post on the south-east corner of the Caspian Sea, 27 miles west of
Astarabad. It is really but a small village on the sea beach, consisting
of about 20 wooden houses, which look as if they had been built from
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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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- 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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