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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [134v] (275/820)
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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250
INC—ISF
INCHA (No, 1)~
a district in the Bujnurd province of Khorasan, situated north of the
river Atrak, about 25 miles from the village of Simalqan. It is a fine
fertile valley draining into the Atrak. It is said to be the best pasture
land in Persia.— {British Agent, Bujnurd', MacLean; C. E. Yate.)
INCHA (No. 2)—
A tributary of the Atrak, taking its rise at the Kuh-i-Kurkhud, and join*
ing the Atrak 3 miles above Cbehil Guzar after a northerly course of about
, 35 miles. The water of Inchais said to be the best in the Bujnurd district,
. and the land on its bank is very fertile. The course of fhe Incha stream
is marked by beds of tall reeds and chindr trees.— (Napier ; MacLean.)
INCHA (No. 3)—
A slight rise, some 30 feet high on the open plain between the Gurgan
and the Atrak rivers, 9 miles from Oba-i-Hatim Mull n on the bank of the
Gurgan, or 5 miles east of Ak Ealeh in the Astarabad district. There are
shallow pools of rain-water near this place, where a halt can be made,—
(C. E. Yate.)
INCHA (No. 4H
Two villages—Low^er Incha and Upper Incha—situated in North-Eastern
Khoiasan, about 18 miles north-east of the village of Kuchan. Ihey
are inhabited by about 70 families of Kurds, w r ho possess 80 cattle and
350 sheep and goats. The normal annual production of wheat and bar
ley amounts to 10,800 Indian maunds.— (Oranoffsky, 1894.)
INDALABAD—
A village in Khoiasan, about 30 miles north-east of Meshed. It gives
its name to a range of hills near, called Khh-i-Indalabad.— (MacGregor.)
INJALEH— Lat. 37° 41'0" ; Long. 57° 10' 0."—(Intelligence Division, War
Office.)
A village in Northern Khorasan on the Garma Khan river.— (Intel
ligence Division, War Office.)
IQ-
A locality in Kurdish Khorasan, 18 miles from the village of Mir,
said to be the head of the watershed between Kuchan and Meshed.— (Mac
Gregor.)
IRAJ or IRIJ—
A village containing about 100 families in the Isfarain district of Kho
rasan.— (H. M. Temple.)
ISFANDIAN- •
A village 13 miles north-west of Meshed and east of Tus.— (Schindler.)
ISFARAIN (District) (No. 1)— Lat. 36° 50' to 37° 15'; Long. 56° 50' to
57°* 50'.— (Napier.)
A district in Khorasan, situated between Kuchan, Bujnurd, Bam-
Safiabad, Jajarm and Juvaim It is a fertile valley with.plenty of water
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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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