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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [170r] (346/820)
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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kalAvan—
A village T)f tilie -K-akli siib^division of tlie Tab&s district of KboTasEn.
— (Bellew.)
kaleh-
A village in Khorasan, about 40 miles from Msbapur, on tbe road to
Far! man.—( MacGregor.)
KALEH CHAH—
A small village in the Shirvan sub-district of Kuchan between Kaleh
Hasan and Shirvan, at about 7 miles from the latter —{Maclean.)
KALEH CHEH HAN—
Name of a valley and stream which runs through it to Maiamai, in
KhoraAn, a short distance south of Maiamai. Through the valley leads
a footpath to the Biijumand plain.— {Schindler.)
KALEHGAK or KALEH-I-GAK—
A hamlet in Eastern KhoraAn, 16 miles to east-nor -east of Turbat-i-
Shaikh Jam on the road to Zurabad. It is the property of Shaukat-ud-
Dauleh, the TImuri chief, and is populated by 20 Timuri families. Water-
-supply by qandt from the hills to the north.—1905.)
KALEH GUMBAD—
A village in the Kuh Paieh district of Shahrud-Bustam.— {Schindler.)
KALEH-I-’ABBAS—
A fort in Northern Khorasan, in the Darrell Gaz district, about 3 miles
south-west of Muhammadabad and I2 miles north of the road, thence to
Kuchan. It is 1 mile north of the fort called Pain Kaleh —(J/acOVe^or.)
KALEH-I-AKHLU—
A village in the Garma Khan sub-division of the Bujnurd district in
Khorasan.— {Maula Bakhsh.)
KALEH-I-ALEHKUH—
A village of 50 families in Khorasan, 3 miles west-nor’-west of Meshed.—
{Rozario.)
KALEH-I-’ALI MUHAMMAD—
A small village in the Kushkaneh sub division of the Kuchan district
in Khorasan. It is situated on the Yangi Kaleh, stream, about 6 miles
from Yangi Kaleh.—(C. E. Yate.)
KALEH-I-ALL AH VIRDlKHAN—
A village with gardens in Khorasan, 3£ miles south-west of Bujnurd.—
(Napier.)
KALEH-I-AQA ’ABDULLAH—
A village in the Kuh Paieh district of Shahrud-Bustam.—(Mindfer.)
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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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- 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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