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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎130v] (267/820)

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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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242
HAZ—HIN
HAZAR CHIL—
A pass in Khorasan on the road from Sabzawar to the turquoise mines
at Ma’drn. The ascent from the south is stony and difficult. From the
summit is seen the extensive plain bounded on the north by the Juvain
mountains.— (Khanikoff.)
HAZAR JARIB—
A mountain district in Northern Khorasan, about 25 miles south-east of
Bujnurd. It is 10 miles by 25 miles in extent, has a nomad population
of some 500 tents, and affords excellent pasturage.
The land is said to yield five-fold without manuring. The greater
part of it is watered by rain only.— (Morier ; Napier ; MacGregor.)
HA RAT-I-SULTAN—
The ruins of a city, about 17 miles west of Chehcheh, on the northern
border of Khorasan, north of Kalat-i-Nadiri.— (Petrusevitch.)
HTDAITABAD—
A village in the Sar-i-Jam sub-division of the Meshed district in
Khorasan. Water good. Supplies procurable in small quantities.—
(Mania Bakhsh.)
HIMMATABAD— Lat. 35° 24' 0"; Long. 59° 48' 40".—(St. John.)
A village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, 112 miles sou’-sou’-east
of Meshed and 14 miles nor’-west of Shahr-i-Nau. Formerly the pro
perty of the Persian Government and inhabited by Barbaris (Hazaras), it
was purchased 7 years ago by Allah Yar Khan, a Sartip of Jam. Its popu
lation now consists of about 50 families of Qarals. Produce 500 kharwdrs
of grain; 21 “ ploughs.” Water from hills to the north. Supplies in small
quantities procurable. Sartip Allah Yar Khan lives here.— (Sykes, 1905 ;
Watson, 1906.)
HINDABAD— Lat. 34° 56' 30"; Long. 59° 15' 0".—(Napier).
A village in Khcrasan, 45 miles from Sultanabad (Turshiz), on the
road to Khaf. There is a good supply of water from streams here and
some cultivation. There is a small fort.— (Forhes ; Clerk; Taylor.)
HIND VALAN—
A village of 100 families in the Sunnikhaneh sub-division of Birjand in
Khorasan, situated about half way between Duruksh and Tabas. It
has a garrison of a nominal strength of 20 men. The masjid is a magni
ficent old building, said to have been erected some 900 years ago by
’Abdullah Khan, Uzbak, and is still in a splendid state of preservation. The
roofing and domes of some of the rooms, particularly of a corridor, much
resembling the crypt of a cathedral in appearance, testify to architectural
skill of no mean order. The total produce is about 2,000 kharudrs in good
years. There are 2,000 sheep, 100 cattle, 100 donkeys. Some grain is
exported.— (H. D. Napier ; Macpherson, 1905 Abbas ’Ali, 1907.)

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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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