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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎243v] (503/820)

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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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KUH—KUH
KCTH-I-QUNJ KHUR—Lat. 37° 5'0°; Long. 57° 58 / 0".
A hill in northern Khorasan, to the north-east of Bujnurd, forming part
of the Kupeh Dlgh range.— {Intelligence Division, War Office.)
KUH-I-RADKAN—
A chain of mountains in northern Khorasan. From a detached spur of
it, 4 or 5 miles north-east of Gunabad, issues the Chashmeh-i-Gilas (j.u.)—
(Napier.)
KUH-I-RISH—
The hills a few miles south-east of Shahrud ; the road to Armian from
Sh.ihrud leads through them.— (Schindler.)
KfjH-I-SAFlD—
A halting-place, with water but no inhabitants, in Khorasan, at the end of
the last stage but four on the route from Samnan too Tabas.— (Stewart.)
KtJH-I-SALAM—
A hill in Khorasan, about 10 miles to the south of Meshed, from which
the first view of the holy city is obtained. The hills in the vicinity are
said to be rich in unworked mines of various minerals. Kuh-i-Salam is
generally called Tappeh-i-Salam.— (Schindler.)
KGH-I-SAL1Q or SALUQ— Lat. 37° 18' 0" ; Long. 57° 15' 0L
A fine, snowy mountain or range of mountains, running east and west
about 10 miles to the south of Bujnurd, and enclosing the Shaughan valley
on the south.— (MacGregor ; Napier.)
Pronounced Saluq , “ the robber’s mountain, ” the western spurs of the
Ak Meshed mountain, forming a range which encloses the Dasht-i-Shau-
ghan on tne south and separates it from the Sankhas plain.— (Schindler.)
KUH-I-SANG—(No. 1).
A range of hills in Khorasan running south of Meshed. These rocky
hills, which are situated about two miles west of the town of Meshed, con
tain numerous quarries which are being constantly worked by stone cutters
at great profit. The Kuh-i*Sang hills are noted for gold and silver mines,
but on account of the rock containing seams'of gold and silver being too hard
they are not worked at present.— (Maula Baksh.)
KtJH-I-SANG (No. 2)~
A hill near the village of Usta in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, on
the summit of which are the remains of a fo.t. It rises some 1,500 feet
above the plain in the form of a lingam. The summit, to which the ascent
is diffi ult, is oblong in shape and some 150 feet long by 40 wide. It con
tains four tanks, all of which are cut from the rock and the largest of which,
50 feet square by 20 feet deep, is lined throughout with brick. On other
peaks below are the remains of buildings.— (Sykes, 1905.)
KUH-I-SANG-I-DUKHTAR—
A range of hills in Khorasan to the north-west of Ghurian, said to be a spur
of the range crossed between Ghurian and Khaf. Napier says the name only
applies to an isolated bill south of the above spur.— (MacGregor \ Napier )

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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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