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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎117v] (241/820)

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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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218
GUL—GUL
GULAR-I-PAIN—
A village on the eastern frontier of Khora^an, 12 miles south-east of
Zhrabad and 2 miles from the Hari End. Population, 25 families of Zuri
Timuris. The surrounding cultivation is irrigated from a spring and from
a qandt cut from the hills to the north. There is a Persian Cossack Post
of 5 men.— [Sykes, 1905 ; Keyes, 1906.)
GULAZG—
A village in the Kalat-i-Nadirl defile. There are about 50 inhabitants
who are very poor. No supplies can be had at this place.
GULBATl—
An easy pass over the Tang Gah range in Northern Khoras&n, a few
miles north-east of Jajarm, on the road to Sankhas.— (Na'pier.)
GULHAUZ—
A well and reservoir without inhabitants on the south-east of Khorasan.
It is 15 miles from Chahrakhts (Shahrakht), the last village on the road
between Kaln and Ghurian.— [MacGregor] Stewart.)
GULl DAGH (No. 1)—
A pass in the Gurgan country on the northern border of Khorasan, the
limit of the Gfiklan Turkomans on one side, while Gumbadd-Kabus forms
it on the other—(^Aomsow.)
GULl DAGH (No. 2)—
A precipitous range of hills in North-Eastern Khorasan. At its southern
base are the heads of the Ughaz, Tarkharan, Jlristan, and Kushkaneh
valleys.— ( Petrusevitch.)
The Gurgan river takes its rise fromDilma and Yalall Chashmeh, springs
at the foot of this range.— (C. E. Yate.)
GULISTAN (No. 1.)— Lat. 36° 18' 42"; Long. 59° 22' 0"—[Lentz).
A village in Khorasan, about 12 miles west of Meshed, built on the sum
mit of a hill about 1 mile from the main road in the hill district of
Kuhpaloh. Situated on the banks of a river, it is the lowest of a series
of cool retre ts where the Meshedis spend the summer months. Many
peach trees. There is a picturesque fort here. The village is built two or
three stories high, the windows looking out of the high walls all round.
It contains about 70 houses. There is hardly any cultivation, nothing but
gardens, the people living principally by the sale of their fruits and
wood.— [Clerk] C. E. Yate ] Sykes 1909.)
GULISTAN (No. 2)—
A village of 60 houses on the road from Jajarm to Bustam, a couple of
^ miles from Kashidar, and about 11 miles from Nardin. From Gulistan,
or near it, there is a road over a high shoulder of theKhfish Yailaq moun*
tain to Bustam, by which guns have been brought. Gulistan belongs to the
Nardin district. The hills west of it are called Kurl Kuruk.— [Na'pier]
Schindler.)

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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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