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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [131r] (268/820)
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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HIND VAR—
A pass in the Atak mountains leading to Guski, through which the
Turkomans used to pass on raids into Persian territory from the Akhal
country.—( Thomson.)
HISAR (No. 1)— Elev. 7,550'.
Ruins of a fort 5 miles from Kang in the Shandiz sub-division of the
Meshed district in Khorasan. It consists of a rocky hillock standing on
the watershed between the Kang and Zushk valleys, and a narrow fort
some 200 yards in length and 50 yards in width at its broadest, was
apparently built on it; nothing remains now but the ruins of the walls
built of small stones, the slate of the hill. The people in the fort could
have had no water nearer than the Zushk stream far down below, and few
rooms to live in. The road from the fort runs straight on up to the
watershed of the Binalud range.—(C. E. Yate.)
HISAR (No. 2)—
A large village with a ruined castle, 12 miles from Meshed, on the sum
mer road to Nishapur.— (Schindler.)
HISlR (No. 3)—
A village in the Kuchan district of Khorasan, situated on the bank of
a dry ndld between Dash Bulagh and Chaqamh, 16 miles from the forme
and 12 miles from the latter place. It contains about 30 families of Mas-
khanlu and Barzakanlu (Za’afaranlu) Kurds. The ndld atHisar is called
Amarburan and is said by the villagers to run down, when in flood, to
Maqsudabad. Water good. Supplies procurable.—(0. E. Yale.)
HISAR (No. 4)—
A small village in the Kushkaneh sub-division of the Kuchan district
of Khorasan. It is situated on the Yang! Kaleh or Qirmizkul stream,
about 3 miles from Yangi Kaleh.— (C. E. Yate.)
HISAR (No. 5)—
A small frontier village in Northern Knorasan, in the district o£
Darreh Gaz, on the road from Lutfabad to Ab-i-Vard. It is inhabited by-
Turkomans . — (Stewart. )
HISAR (No. 6)—
A village of 15 houses in Northern Khorasan, 24 miles from Bujnurd,
on the road to Jajarm.— (Napier.)
HISARCHA—
Another name for Ak Kaleh (No. 1.)
HISAR-I-KHAnI—
A village containing 30 families between Rashidabad and Nishapur in
Khorasan.— (H. M. Temple.)
48 I. B.
2 H 2
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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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