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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [127v] (261/820)
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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HASAN—
A village in the Khaf district of Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 1)—
A village 16£ miles from Meshed and 3 miles west of Tus.— {Schindler.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 2)—
A village of 40 houses at the entrance to the Sultan Maid an plain from
the north-east. It is inhabited by Turks and has a large but ruined
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
Pays tumdns 80 revenue. Half a mile north is the village of Chaqaneh,
which is the capital of the Sar-i-Yilaiat district.— {Schindler; Watson;
Sykes.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 3)—
A village in Khorasan, 17 miles from Farlman, on the road to Nishapur,
It has water and supplies.— {MacGregor.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 4)—
A fort in Khorasan standing boldly out in plains to the right of the road
from Bijistan to Turbat-i-Haidari, 4 miles south-west of ’Abdulabad and
about the same distance from Faizabad. It is in the Zava huluk of
the Turbat-i-Haidari district.— {Bellew.)
H ASAN AB AD (No. 5)—
A village in the Shahrud district.— {Belleiv.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 6)—
A village in Khorasan, 24| miles fromBirjand, on the road to Herat.—
{MacGregor.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 7)—
A village in Khorasan, 28 miles from Birjand, on the road to Tabas.—
{Intelligence Division, War Office, Part II.)
HASAN AB AD (No. 8)—
A small village in the Jam district of Khorasan, 2 miles east-nor’-
east of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, the Jam river flowing between. It is
inhabited by 50 families of Jamis.— {Sykes, 1905.)
HASAN ’ALl—
See Kalateh-i-Hasan ’All.
HASAN QULl (No. 1)— '
A bay situated on the south-east shore of the Caspian Sea, between the
hills called by the Russians the Belei Bugor and Serebrannei Bugor (the
White Hills and Silver Hills), being 24£ miles from the former and 14
miles from the latter, 33 miles from the south-east angle of Astarabad
bay, and 23| miles from the Ashurada light-ship. The entrance to the
bay is formed by two sandspits, of which the northern is called chagil
and the southern kaj. Both of them are low and sandy ; the first is quite
destitute of any vegetation, whilst the latter is covered with reeds.
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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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