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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [189v] (389/820)
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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358
KHO—KHO
The districts of Khorasan that lie nearest the border line, and that would
be first called upon to support a friendly force, or to aid in repelling an
invading enemy, are Meshed, Turbat-i-Haidari, Turshiz, Nishapur, and
Sabzawar. Behind them westward up to the province of ’Iraq the country
is, in a military sense, a blank, offering no p- ospect of support to a defend
ing force and no obstacles to invasion. Anything worthy of the name of a
fortification does not exist on the Persian Border ; the forts are mere ruined
towers.
Khorasan is inhabited by a great variety of races ; only the portion
Inhabitants fy in g near the northern and southern roads
from Meshed to Tehran being occupied by
Persians. To the north-west, on the frontiers of Astarabad and towards
the Caspian, are Turkomans of the Guklan and Yamut tribe ; to the north
and north-easlt are the Kurds of Bujnurd, Kuchan and DarrehGaz. In
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam and Khaf are sections of the ’Amaq tribe of Timuris ;
in Turbat-i- Haidari are the Qaral Turks and various tribes of Baluchis.
Turshiz is chiefly inhabited by ’Arabs, as are Kain, Tun, and Tabas.
The following is the list of the tribes of Khorasan:—
Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam ..
250 tents and houses
. Speak Persian.
Khaf, Timuri ’ ..
4,000 „ „ „
C Language—Persian ;
* 1 living at Khaf.
Turbat-i-Haidari—
Qarai
Baluchi , ..
Laks '' ..
Miscellaneous
5.000 „ „ „
2.000 „ „ „
1,000 „ „ „
2,000 „ „ „
^ All speak Persian.
Turshlz district and town contains—
’Arab
Baluch
4.000 houses and tents
2.000 „ „
’ | Language Persian.
Tun and Tabas, names of two districts whose chief towns are
of the same name—
’Arab-i-RigunI
7,000 houses and tents
. Language Persian.
Kain district and town—
’Arab
mkhl
12,000 houses and tents
Number not known
' j Language—Persian.
Sarhaddat, meaning the tribes
on the frontiers of Meshed
Timuri
2,000 tents and houses
. Live at Kuzqan.
Mervi
700 houses ..
(Turks are dispersed in
‘ I various places.
f Mazdarani ..
130 houses ..
f Language, Persian ; live
. •< at Sangbast, 20 miles
(. from Meshed.
Chulal - ..
2,000 houses and tents
. Turks.
Jalalr Turks
1,500 houses
C Turks ; live at Kalat-i*
* l Nldirl.
Laks and others
1,500 houses and tents.
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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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