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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [125v] (257/820)
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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232
HAJ—HAL
HAJl JAVAD—
A village 9 miles from Blrjand on the road to Kaln. It contains 25
houses and 60 inhabitants and is surrounded by gardens. Annual production
of wheat and barley (f wheat, £ barley) in ordinary years is about 27
Indian maunds. Watcr-suppb 7 from a kwiz, slightly brackish.—(C. WawKss,
July 1903.)
HAJlLAR (No. 1)—
See Sangar or Sangar-i-Haji Lar.
HAJ! LAR (No. 2)—
The name of the remnant of a Turkish clan (Garili), w ho inhabit the
precipitous glens draining the plateau north of the Gurgan river. They
now count about 1,000 houses. They have an immense reputation for
courage and strength, and are expert marksmen.— (Napier.)
HAJl MAGHANLl—
A section of Garili Turks occupying the village of Dasturan or Dishki-
jan, a village 7 miles from Jaghatai in the Juvain district of Khorasan.
— (C. E. Yate.)
HAJl SHAMS!—
A small village situated on the right of the road from Sabzawar to
Za’afarani. Supplies procurable in small quantities.— (Maula BaJchsh.)
HAJl SHANEH—
A village in Khorasan, 8 miles froln Turbat-i-Haidari, on the road t°
Meshed.— (Rozario.)
HAKANABAD—
A village in Khorasan on the road between Bushruleh and ’Abbasabad.
— (Stewart.)
HAKlMABAD (No. 1)—
A village of 30 families in the Sar-i-Jam sub-division of the Meshed
district.— (Maula BaJchsh, 1896.)
HAKlMABAD (No. 2)—
A village in Northern Khorasan, 17| miles south-east of Kumisdan in
the Jaghatai—Juvain valley, on the road from Mazinan to Nishapur.—
(Napier.)
HALAVI—
A village in the Gunabad buluk of the Tabas district of Khorasan, on the
road to Khaf.— (MacGregor.)
HALGAR—
A populous village, 13 miles from Blrjand on the road to Kirman, sit
uated in a tang enclosed by hills, fertile and well cultivated.— (Mohi-ud~
Din.)
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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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