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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [228v] (471/820)
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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430 KHU-KHU
;KHUDA AFARlD (No. 1)—
A village in tiie Gunabad sub-division of the Tabas district in Khora-
san.— (Bellew.)
KHUDA AFARlD (No. 2)—
A village in the Dasht-i-Rukh buluk of the Turbat-i-Haidari district
of Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
KHtJD-I -SH AH—
See Khurashah.
KHtJEH YAR—
A range of hills in Khorasan, immediately to the west of the town of
Khaf.— (Sykes, 1905).
KHtR—
A large village of Khorasan in the Tun buluk of the Tabas province.
It contains 1,800 to 2,000 inhabitants, and is about 30 miles from Birjand
on the road to Tabas, being the first village of the latter district. It has
an old fort, but the village is outside it. On two sides of the village are
steep cliffs, about 20 feet high. At the foot of the cliffs, which are
very abrupt and have only two paths, there is stagnant water in large
pools of considerable depth. Just beyond these pools the ground rises
a little, and on this rising ground the village is built. On a third side
of the village, where there are no cliffs, is a salt marsh of considerable
extent—so that the village would present great difficulties to an attacking
force without artillery. Good water is obtainable, and supplies in fair
quantities.— (MacGregor, Stewart.) . > •
KHOR (No. 1)—
A group of villages in Khorasan on the road from Yazd to Nishapur and
21 miles from Badrashkand. It contains 100 houses and the ruins of an
old castle picturesquely situated on the summit of a conical hill. The
principal village is built on steeply-sloping ground over the valley, which
is here very narrow and bounded by steep, bare mountains.— (Gill.)
KHUR (No. 2) or KHAUR— Lat. 36° 36' 0" ; Long. 60° 12'0".—(Aajner.)
A village and pass in Khorasan, on the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-
Nadiri by Qaratigan. The road here is very difficult and stony. The vil
lage contains some 100 houses : it lies at the head of the Chehcheh valley,
38 miles by road from Kalat. The stream from which the pass takes its
name runs from west to east; and after passing through a rocky fissure
one-third of a mile in length, loses itself in a swamp, 20 miles beyond new
Chehcheh. ,
The village is situated in the Kara Dagh mountains at the source of the
Khurchai stream. By an agreement arrived at between the Russian and
Persian Governments, the inhabitants of this village are never to exceed the
number of 300, families. The land allotted to them for cultivation reaches
from Khhr fort northward as far as Darband, which is situated south of
the Nakifort. Only one-third of this land may be cultivated every year.
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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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