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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎181r] (370/820)

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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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KAT-KAZ
341
aidari, ^
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et The
re Karai,
contains
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phadillus who built the village walls to protect them irom Tekke raids.
They now talk nothing but Turin.
Yat> noticed in the map (sheet No. 2) that the stream as .“ e r
lb i-Kuruk or Ib-i Kushkaneh is named Kuru Chai river, and that the other
Ab-, IturuK or S b-i-GHan or the Ab-i-Mianzu from the name
Tr va^it nisses ihrotgh, is named the Shirin Chai river. This latter
stream is said to run down a defile called Shi'in Darreh, but 1 hear of
no Turki or other word answering to the dim of the map.-(C. E. Yate,
1894.)
KATUL (No. 1)— f
A d strict of Astarabad. This buluk extends from the mountain o
Astarabld to the open plain held by the Turkomans. There are some
five Villages standing in extensive clearings m the forest The total
number of vil'ages in the buluk is 28, of which the pnncpa, are Katul
Mamtalu, and 8 Bar Ka’eh. The inhabitants are chiefly Ganli lurks
Q n4 tsrrpak Turkish as well as Persian.
They are a fine hardy race, of good physique, and for the most part
well armed The country is covered wi,h forest for the most part, but
has several op n grass-covered plains. The Kara Su rises in the moun-
taTns to the south and flows west to Katul. Cotton is largely grown and
r'ce when there are facilities for irrigation.— (Aay/.er; Astarabad Irade
Report, 1909.)
KATUL (No. 2)— Lat. 36° 55' 10"; Long. 54° 53' 0 .—{Napier.)
A large village in the province of Astarabad, 25 (MacGregor says 28)
mits east of th! town ol Astarabad on the road to Bupurd by Gurgan. It
Sm ains some 400 houses, and a Persian Government Telegraph Office.
There is a post of 50 horse for border defence at Katul I bis village is m
the 6 buliik of the same name, being one of the easternmost of the province^
There is water and fuel, abundance of forage, and some supplies.
{MacGregor ; Napier.)
KAVALLU—
A sub-division of the Yankak section of the Guklan ( ? .*.) Turkomans.—
(C E. Yate.)
KAVA SAQQiL—
A sub-division of 'the Kirrikh section of the Guklan (q.v.) Turkomans
—(G. E. Yate.)
KAZAZAN— , ^
A village of the Birjumand snb-distr'ct of Shahrud-Bustam, with
about 50 houses, 21 miles south of Mlandasht. Its water comes from the
northe n mountains.— {Schindler.)
KAZl (No. 1)— •if im ■ ■ q
A village in the Tun sub-division of the Tabas d strict of Khcrasan, 9
nhtstom Bushmieh, on the road to Meshed by Bpstan. It has good
water, and supplies are procurable—(Mew, MacGregor.)

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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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