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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [161r] (328/820)
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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it receives the stream of Istiksii. At the defile of Arghavan’Shah it is joined
by the small stream of Yangi Kaleh, which in its turn receives the Kara Su.
AH these tributaries are insignificant streams.
The Meshed-Kakhka road runs down the valley of Kalat Chan—(Afac-
Gregor ; Napier; Oranoffsky, 1894.)
KALATEH (No. 1)—
A village in Khorasan, about 5 miles nor'-nof-east from Meshed.—
{MacGregor.)
KALATEH (No. 2)—
A fine village in Khorasan on the border between the districts of Rad-
kan and Kuchan, inhabited by Kurds of the Kaivanlu tribe.— {Napier.)
KALATEH (No. 3)— Lat. 37° 27" 0"; Long. 58° 42' 0".—{Stewart.)
A village in Northern Khorasan, 20 miles north-west of Muhammada-
bad in Darreh Gaz.— {Stewart).
KALaTEH (No. 4)— Lat. 37° 30' O'; Long. 57° 23' O'.
A village in northern Khorasan, about 3 miles east of Bujnurd.— {In
telligence Division, War Office.)
KALATEH (No. 5)— Elev. 5,150'.— {Lovett.)
A village in Khorasan, about 5£ miles from Shahrud, on the road to As
tarabad.— {Napier.)
KALATEH (No. 6)—
A village between the districts of Astarabad and Damghan, 5 mile 3
from Chashmeh-i-’Ali on the road to Astarabad.— {Morier.)
KALATEH (No. 7) or KALATEHHA-I-MAZiNAN—
Several small hamlets (Kalat, Muhsinabad, Faizabad, Afzalabad) to
gether with 80 houses in the Mazinan sub-district of Sabzawar, in Khora
san, a few miles erst of Mazinan. These hamlets give a contingent of 1
tufangchis towards the 200 of the Mazinan district.— {Schindler.)
A hamlet in Khorasan, 20 miles east of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam and
close to Daulatabad (No. 6), inhabited by 25 families of Timuris.— {Sykes,
1905.)
KALATEHHA or KALATEH-I-’ARAB-U-’AJAM— ~
A huliik of the Shahrud-Bustam district. The principal group of vil
lages is distant from Shahiud about 52 miles, from Maiamai 16 miles, and
from Miandasht the same distance. This group was formerly called Kal-
at-i-Mihr Raushanai (contracted into Mirsini) from the name of the former
principal village, destroyed many years ago. The ruins of this village
are still to be seen a couple of miles north of Sharifabad. The village
forming this group are Kuhan 30 houses, Sharifabad 20 houses, Takran
30 houses, Yunistan 15 houses, Husainabad 5 houses, Asgharabad 15
houses, Quratabad 15 houses; other villages of the huliik are Ribad 8 miles
west of Sharifabad, and Mazaj and Jilan (Maghz Gilan) about 28 miles
north-east of Shahrud and 25 miles from Sharifabad. The population
of this huluk is about 3,000; half the inhabitants are ’Ajam (Persian)
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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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