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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [178r] (362/820)
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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KARA JtKAR—
A mountain in the Darrell Gaz district in northern Khorasan.— {MacGregor.)
KARA KANLtf—
A village, situated between Maneh and Simalqan in the Bujnurd dis"
trict of Khorasan.— {Mania Bakhsh.)
KARA KHAN or KARA KHAN BAND!—
A village in the Garma Khan sub-division of the Bujnurd district of
Khorasan, 25 miles west of Hhirvan. It is situated in a beautifully
verdant valley, with a fine stream and abundance of fine forage. The
mountains around are rocky and barren, and their stratification is of a very
remarkable and often grotesque character.— {MacGregor.)
KARA MUSA-I-’ALI—
A village in the Simalqan sub-division of the Bujnurd district in
Khorasan.— {Mania Bakhsh.)
KARA SHAH YIRDl—
A village in northern Khorasan, about 7 miles from Kuchan, on the road
to Sabzawar.— {MacGregor.)
KARA QAZAN or QUZGAN—
A fine spring and pool, 3 miles north of Shirvan in Khorasan. It has
an outflow of water, even in seasons of severest droughts.— {Baker ; Napier.)
KARA QUCHI—
A village containing only 20 famihes, between Ma’dxn and Rashidat ad
in the Nishapur district of Khorasan. This village has a spring of water
and some rain-water crops.— {H. M. Temple.)
KARA QUZl—
A sub-division of the Kirrikh section of the Guklan Turkomans.—
{C. E. Yate.)
KARA SU (No. 1)—
See Kalat Chai.
KARA SU (No. 2) (River)—
A river in Khora-an, rising in the Shah Kurkhud or Kurkhud
mountain in the district of Bujnurd, and flowing south to its junction with
the Kaleh-i-Mura river.— {Napier.)
KARA SD (No. 3) (River)—
The name given by the Turkomans to the Hari Rud below the point of
confluence with the Kasbaf Rud.— {Petrusevitch.)
KARA SU (No. 4) (River)—Lat. 36° 50' 0"; Long. 54° 2' 0".
A river in the province of Astarabad, rising in the mountains to the
south of the Katul huluk, about 30 miles east of Astarabad. It flows
: first north-west, then west for 40 or 50 miles, and falls into the Caspian
6 or 7 miles south of Khwaja Nafas at the mouth of the Gurgan.
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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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