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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎137r] (280/820)

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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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ISRIL— -~ : r /
A small village in the Armian sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam, 13 miles
south-west of Maiamai.— {Schindler.)
ISTARtAD or ISTARBtD—
A village of 75 houses in the Fariumad-Firuzabad sub-district of Shah
rud-Bustam, 6 miles from Faiiumad. It is well watered by a little stream
which runs into the Kaleh-i-Mura iust above the Pul-i-Abrisham.— {Schind
ler.) ' "
ISTIKSt? (No. 1) (River)— r
A small stream flowing from the hills near Kalat-i-Nadiri to the village
Istiksu, from which it derives its name.— {Mania Bakhsh.)
ISTIKSU (No. 2) (Village)—
In Persian, Garmab. A village containing about 20 families of Jalair
Turks in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district of Khorasan, situated at 6 miles from
Darband-i-Arghavan Shah and 10 miles from Bardeh (or Vardeh). The
inhabitants possess 50 cattle and 800 sheep and goats. The normal annual
production of wheat and barley amounts to 100 kharwdrs.—{C. E. Yate ;
Oranoffsky, 1894 ; Smyth, 1906.)
ISTIR or PlR-I-ISTIR—
' A village of 150 houses in Khorasan, 10 miles west of Sabzawar. It is
also called Pirri-Istir.— {Schindler.)
ISTUI (No. 1)—
A hamlet on the Eastern Khorasan fronner, 36 miles east-north-east of
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, inhabited by 4 or 5 Baluchi families.— {Sykes, Nov
ember 1905.)
ISTUI (No. 2) (Stream)—
A stream in North-Eastern Khorikan, which has its source near the
Mishi hills, an offshoot of the Galabak mountains, and running due east,
flows into the Hari Rud near the village of Khatai. It has a length of
about 19 miles, and flows through a defile formed by two spurs of the
Galabak mountains, and is encumbered by fragments of rock. The breadth
of the valley is inconsiderable, and above Kaleh Istui, for a distance of
3 miles, it is so narrow that communication along it is impossible. At
Kaleh Istui it receives two tributaries, one from the north-west and the
other from the south ; here the valley broadens out and is cultivated.
Farther down the valley again contracts and is difficult to follow, owing
to the mass of boulders with which it is strewn.
Clumps of bushes and trees of various kinds grow in the valley, as well
as on the sides of the hills enclosing it.
Kaleh Istui is inhabited by only 4 or 5 families, and the cultivation in
the neighbourhood belongs to the inhabitants of the village of Khatai.
The road from Zulfikar to Pish Robat follows the valley of the Istui.—
(Oranoffsky, 1894.)

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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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