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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [185r] (378/820)
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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KHASANAK—
A village of Khorasan, 18 miles from Qalandarabad and 2 miles west
of the road from Meshed to Herat.— (Kh cnikoff.)
KHATAI—
A hamlet on the eastern Khorasan frontier, 46 miles east-nor’-east
of Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam, situated near the left bank of the Hari Rud.
Population, 8 families of Baluehls and 2 of Hazaras.— (Sykes, November
1905. ) There are five Cossacks here, who tarn back all Afghans.— (Keyes,
1906. )
khavAr—
A village of Khorasan, about 14 miles from Nfshapur on the left of the
road to Meshed. It is situated at the foot of a range of hills, which takes
its name from the village.— (Bellew.)
KHIABAN—
A village in Khorasan, 5 miles from Meshed, on the road to Sarakhs-
It contains 50 Persian families who own 60 cattle and 150 sheep and
200 goats. The normal annual production of wheat and barley is 600
kharwars. — (Oranoffsky, 1894 ; Smyth, 1906.)
KHIJ—
A village of 200 houses lying on the eastern shoulder of Khflsh Yailaq
in the Sarhad buluk of Shahrud-Bustam. The smaller village of the two
in the Kalateh-i-Khlj sub-district of Shahrud-Bustam. It lies two miles
east of the village Kalateh-i-Khlj and about 5 miles from Magaz (Maghz),
and has 150 houses.— (Schindler.)
KHILAN-I-SHAMS—
A village in Khora-an, on the road from Tabas to Yazd, 42 miles from
the former.— (War Office Report on Persia, Part II, Route 233.)
“ Khilan” is sometimes used to indicate a heavy, h amyclay soil.—
(Schindler.)
KHISHT—
A small village of Khorasan, consisting of some 50 houses, surrounded by
cultivation, situated on the highlands of the Kalat-i-Nadiri plateau in
side the fortress. The neighbourhood affords good grazing in spring.
The population consists of 51 families of Turks who own 150 cattle,
1,500 sheep and goats and 250 horses. The annual production of wheat
and barley is 3,200 Indian maunds.— (MacGregor ; Oranoffsky, 1894.)
KHIZRI— Lat. 33° 59' 30"; Long. 58° 48' 0".—(St. John.)
A village in Dasht-i-Piaz sub-division of the Kaln district of Khora
san, situated on the road from Jumin (Jumand) to Kain.
It is a flourishing village, surrounded by fruit gardens and mulberry
plantations and abundantly watered by streams from 'the hills, with a
population of about 120 families. There are two roads from Khizrl to
Birjand. One goes by Kaln, Sehdeh and Rum and has steep kutals un
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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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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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