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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [136v] (279/820)
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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254
ISJ—ISP
ISJIL or ISGIL (No. 2) (Village) — ' 1 ' ;
A large village of 550 houses in the Meshed district of Khorasan, situated
to the west of the town of Meshed. It belongs to the shrine of Imam
Riza and, like Kahu, is not included in any sub-division. The revenue of
Isjil amounts to 515 tumdns in cash, and 30 kharwdrs of grain per annum.
—{Maula Bakhsh.)
ISLAM!—
A small village within the walls of TQs.— (Schindler.)
ISMA’ILABAD (No. 1)—
A village, situated in the Sar-i-Jam sub*division of the Meshed dis*
- trict of Khorasan, on the main route between Meshed and Herat, 90 miles
from the former place, and is surrounded by a wall. It contains about
100 inhabitants, nearly all Barbaris. Very little cultivation and scanty
supplies.— (C. Wanliss, October 1903.)
ISMA’ILABAD (No. 2)—
A village in Eastern Khorasan, 48 miles east-south-east of Meshed, on
the Kashaf Rud. It is inhabited by some 30 families of Kirmanis and
Shirazis. When visited, about 30 tents of Shirazi and Zulfi Timuris were
1 also pitched in the vicinity. Tamarisk fuel in abundance from the river
bed.— (Sykes, November 1905.)
ISMA’ILABAD (No. 3)— Lat. 36° 40' 20"; Long. 57° 26'20".—(Aaper.)
A village in the Jaghatai mountains, Khorasan, on the road from
Shahrud to Meshed.— (Napier.)
ISMA’ILABAD (No. 4)—
A village in the Alghur buluk of Kain district, Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
ISMA’ILABAD (No. 5)—
A small village of Khorasan, about 85 miles south-south-east of Meshed,
- near the road from Turbat-i-Haidarl to Herat, and some 10 miles south
of the Kalleh Minar Pass. It is inhabited by 12 families of Baluchis and
Qarals.— (Sykes, 1905.)
ISMA’ILABAD (No. 6.)—
A small vill. ,ge 9 miles from Ravar on the Naiband road in Southern
Khorasan. Good, spacious serai, with brackish stream close by. Sup
plies, fuel and forage obtainable.— (Baggaley, 1909.)
ISPAK— Lat. 34° 14' 30"; Long. 57° W 0”.—(Walker.)
A village in Khorasan, about 24 miles from Deh-i-Muhammad, on the
road from Tabas to Turbat-i-Haidari. It has good water and some
supplies.— (MacGregor ; Gill.)
ISPISHAD—
* A village in Khorasan in the Kaln buluk of the district of the same
name.— (Bellew.)
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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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