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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎163v] (333/820)

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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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KALATEH-l-SHCRABl-
A hamlet of only two families near Eakhr-i-Daud, in the Bivazhan fctdujfc 8 1
of the Meshed district of Khorasan.— {II. M. Tem'ple.) j 1
KALATEH-I-SUL0GIRD—
A village in Khorasan, 29 i miles from Meshed, on the road to Darreh
Gaz. It lies half a mile off the road to the south.— {Napier.) f
KALATEH-I-SUMBUL— . J
A small village south of Sultanabad (No. 1).— {H. M. Temple, 1900.)
KALATEH-I-VAKlL KHAN-
A village in Khorasan, 23 miles from Meshed, to the north of the road to
Darreh Gaz.— {Napier.)
KALATEH-I-YUSUF KHAN Elev. 4,850'— Lat. 37° 8' 30" ; Long. 58 6 34' O'*
A village in Khorasan, 77 miles from Meshed, on the road to Darreh
Gaz. It contains 150 houses, inhabited by Kaivanlu Kurds, and has
ample supplies.— {Napier.)
KALATEH MANSURIA—
A hamlet in Khorasan, 14 miles east of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, on the road
to Daulatabad (No. 6), with a population of 25 Timur! families.— {Sykes,
1905.)
KALATEH MINAR— Elev. 4,200/
A hamlet, 50 miles east of Meshed on 1he road to Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam,
inhabited by 40 Barbari families, and producing 500 kharudrs of grain
annually.—($y£es, 1907.).
KALAT-I-’ARAB—
A village in Khorasan, 41 miles from Meshed, on the road to Darreh Gaz.
It contains 30 Persian families who own 50 cattle and 150 sheep-and goats.
The normal annual production of wheat and barley is 2,800 Indian maunds
— {Oranoffsky, 1894.)
KALAT-I-NADIRI—
A district of Khorasan, situated on the north-east frontier of Persia,
and bounded on the north by Trans-Caspia, on the west by Darreh Gaz, on
the east by Sarakhs, and on the south by Chul-i-Khaneh.
The district has a length of about 70 to 80 miles and a width of about
rvnprai foatnrp* 30 miles ’ and is defended by a number of as
strong defiles as are to be found in the world.
It consists of a series of valleys descending from the ridge to the plain ;
those to the westward having a general direction north-east, those to the
eastward nearly east-sou’-east. Each valley is confined by precipitous
spurs, which fall away in rugged outlines to the lower ranges. These are
of inconsiderable height and of easy, rounded outline, being composed for
the most paH of clays, chalk, and marls; but they spread a most intricate
maze of ravines and glens between the plain and the bases of the main
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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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