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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [147r] (300/820)
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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JULGA—
A village in the Zava buluk of the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khorasan.
(Bellew.)
JULGAl BAGHLSTAN—
A valley inKhcrasan, at the foot of the Kuh-i-Laqi and Knh-i-Siah
between Dasht-i-Plaz and Kakh. The name means “ the valley of gardens, ”
an appellation evidently derived from the fertility of the soil.— {Rozario.)
JULGAl BUSTAM—
The tract of country in the Shahrud district that is drained by the
Shahrud river. It is a fine alluvial tract, with many large villages and
much cultivation. It lies 4 miles to the east of Bustam. It is the western
end of a fine, level plain, with a width of from 14 to 20 miles, terminating
to the west in the valleys of the Shah Kuh, and to the east merging into
the open plain of Juvain and Isfarain, and thence into the plain of Nishapur.
This tract is known in the centre as the Julgeh-i-Magas Gilan, and on the
east as the Julgeh-i-Jaj.arm.— (Napiev.)
JULGAlBATU—
A valley in Khorasan, about 27 miles from Nishapur, on the road, to
Ma’dan by the village of Pehna.— (Napier.)
JULGEH-I-BlRJAND—
The name given to the combined valleys of Mud and Birjand.— (Rozario),
JULGEH-I-DA3T GARDAN—
A cluster of villages in Khorasan, about 25 miles from Pashneh Daran, and
a little to the west of the road from Tabas to Turshiz-.— (Gill.)
JULGEH-I-GUNABAD—
A valley in Khorasan stretching from Bijistan northwards for about
30 miles, and extending from side to side about 8 miles. The following are-
the villages in this valley :—Jumin, Shahr, Naughab, Dalui, Baiun
Ghujd, Gham, Barabad, R uhan, RLab, and Badukh .—(Rozario ; MacGre
gor.)<
JULGEH-I-JAJARM—
See Julgeh-i-Bustam.
JULGEH-I-MAGAS GILAN—
See Julgeh-i-Bustam.*
JULGEH-I-RUKH—
A valley or plain in Khorasan, situated north of the Gudar-i-Khumari
and south of the Gudar-i-Muhammad Mirza., It is crossed by the road lead
ing from Turbat-i-Haidari to Meshed, which enters it at 19| miles from
the former place. The valley runs east and west, is about 13 miles wide,,
and contains a number of small walled villages, the principal of which are
Asadabad and Hashmatabad.— (C. Wanliss, 1903.)
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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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- 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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