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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎161v] (329/820)

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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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302
KAL—KAL
* the other half, ’Arab of the Timflri and Amri tribes. The Govern*
ment takes from the small eastern group yearly 58 tumans, 102
Jcharwars barley, and 14 kharudrs straw. Twenty men of this little
group are embodied in the ’Arab-u-’Ajam regiment, and forty others are
supposed to guard the Miandasht caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). . This latter duty is
very advantageous to them as they supply the passing caravans with
provisions. Twelve miles north of Sharifabad is an old caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). ^
now deserted, called Robat-i-Savanj, formerly a station on the highroad
from Bustam to Nishapur. Up to 15 or 20 years ago this buluk was much
exposed to the attacks of Turkomans.— (Schindler.)
KALATEH CHINAR (No. 1)— Lat. 37° 46' 0"; Long. 56' 45' 0".
The site of a large, deserted village in northern Khoitkan, on the road
from Bujnurd to Kara Kala, and about 45 miles distant from the former
town.— (Napier.)
KALATEH CHINlR (No. 2)—Lat. 37° 36' O'; Long. 58° 29' O'.
A cluster of villages, three in number, all fortified, and situated on the
stream that flows from Duringar to Annau. They belong to the Persian
district of Darreh Gaz in northern KhoraAn. There are altogether about
100 houses.
The Kalateh Chinar valley, in which the villages are situated, contains
seven hamlets altogether, and forms one of the bnlnks of Darreh Gaz. It is
formed by the junction of the Kupeh Dagh and the Zar-i-Kuh, and termi
nates in a gorge through which rushes the Kalateh Chinar stream, which
flows to Annau. The total length of the valley is 8 miles.-— (Baker ; Gill;
Napier; Condie-Stephens ; Petrusevitch.)
KALATEH HAJI SHAIKH0—
A small hamlet on the eastern frontier of Khorasan on the road between
Gular-i-Pain and Zurabad, about 5 miles from the former. Inhabitants,
8 families of Zuri Timuris.— (Sykes, November 1905.)
KALATEH-I-’ALI—
A village, 18 miles from Meshed and 4 miles north-west of Tus.—
{Schindler.)
KALATEH-I-’AMJ AN—
A village in Khorasan, 40 miles from Meshed, on the road to Darreh
Gaz.— (Napier.)
KALATEH-I-AQA SADR—
A small village in the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khorasan on the
road between Khaf and Turbat-i-Haidari, 601 miles from the former and
11| miles from the latter. It consists of 15 houses and some 50 inhabitants
and possesses 20 cattle, 500 sheep and goats. There are a few orchards
and a little cultivation round the village. Water-supply from a kdriz. —
(C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
KALATEH-I-’ARAB—
See Kalatd-’Arab. . . . ..... ., ^

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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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