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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎182r] (372/820)

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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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During the lour summer months it blows a gale of wind day and night,
by which the windmills are turned.
There are Post and Telegraph Offices here. A Russian Telegraphist
quartered here.-(H. D. Napier; Tate, 1894 ; Wanlm, 1903; Spies, 190o,
Watson, 1906.)
KHAF (No. 2) (District)—
A district in Khorasan, bounded on the north by Bakharz, on the south
by Kain, on the east by Afghanistan, and on the west by the Gunahad sub
division of the Tabas district. It is divided into two divisions—Bala Khaf
with chief town Naslrabad, and Pain K1 af, with chief town Km Khaf
The tract consists mostly of bare, stony hills and desolate slopes with
a few patches of cultivation round the villages, the chief of whic is
Bui Khaf (q v-). The richest portion of the distr ct is the valley running
no th-west of Khaf, in which the village of Salami is situated and
in which the outturn of grain is comparatively large. There are 81
Kdnzes •
The population is estimaied at about 15,500 souls, exclusive oi Timuri
nomads, who are reckoned at 1,000 tents.
The annual outturn of wheat and barley is estimated at 9,500 tons,
which allows a considerable surplus for export.
The domestic animals are estimated to be as follows .
Cattle
Sheep
Goats
Mules
Donkeys
Camels
Horses
2,000
26,000
14,000
92
2,398
5 C 3
262
A certain amount of silk, opium and tobacco are cultivated and 2,000
kharwdrs of the last-named commodity a:e exported to other districts
annually.
The revenue of the district is 11,000 tumdns in cash, excluding the
sheep-tax, and y^th of produce. Plshkash, 5,000 tumdns. (H. D. Napier ;
Yate ; Maula Bakhsh; Watson, 1905-06.)
KHAIBAR or KHAIBARA KUH—
A range of hills in Khorasan, separating the sub-division of Khaf from
that of Gfmabad. It is crossed by a not very high pass of the same name
on the road from the town of Khaf to that of Gunabad, at about 25 miles
from the former.— (Khanikoff.)
KHAIBARl—
A vk’age of Khorasan, in the Gunabad buluk of the province of Tabaa.
—(Be lew.)

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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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