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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [131v] (269/820)
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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244
HIS-HUS
HIS AR-I-KOSHK—
A village containing 20 families, situated to the south-west of Rashida-
bad, at a little distance from the road, in the Mshapur district in Khorasan.
•—(//. M. Temple.)
HIS AR-I-NAU—
A village in the Nishapur district situated on the road to the turquoise
mines, 12 miles from the Ma’dan villages and 8 miles from Saidabad. It
contains some 30 families of ’Amarlu Kurds. Water good. Supplies
procurable.— (C. E. Yate.)
HIS AR-I-SHIR ’ALI BEG—
A small village in the Bujntird district of Khorasan, situated to the
south-west of the Bujnilrd valley. Water good. Supplies procurable
in small quantities .—(Maula Bakhsh.)
HIS AR-I-SURKH—
A small village in the Sar-i-Jam sub-division of the Meshed district of
Khorasan. Water good. Supplies procurable in small quantities.—(ilfaula
Bakhsh.)
HUDAN—
A pass in Northern Khorasan, leading from Kuchan to Askhabad, by
the Asalmeh mountain, through which parties of Turkomans used to
pass on raids into Persian territory from the Akhal country. {Thomson.)
HUKMABAD—
A village of 300 houses in the Jaghatai plain, 25 miles west of Robat-i-
Gaz. Revenue Jwmaws 2,000. The inhabitants are the fifth generation of
Turks brought here from Sarakhs by Shah Isma’il Safavi. District fertile.
Supplies abundant. Situated on southern edge of a meadow which borders a
salt river flowing west.—(JFateow , Sykes.)
HUNISTAN or KHUNISTAN—
A _ village in the Shahrud division, 108 miles east of Astarabad, con
taining 80 houses. Water plentiful from a copious stream which ’issues
from a qandt. Firewood abundant from the hills. Crops, chiefly wheat
and barley. Grapes, melons, and tomatoes are abundant. Sheep 6 000 to
8,000.— {Vaughan.) * ’
HUSAINABAD (No. U—
A village in Khorasan, 10 miles east-south-east of Meshed, on the road
to Sarakhs. It is situated on the right bank of the Kashaf Rud on the
slope of a brown, stony ridge, in the midst of fine plantations of poplars
and vineyards The population consists of 50 families of Kirmanis.
Close by is the hamlet of Kaleh Ulang, consisting of 30 families and the
property of the Mu’avin-ut-Tujjar .—{MacGregor \ Sykes, \§§o.)
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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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