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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎247v] (511/820)

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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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474
KUL—KUM
two and three miles respectively to the west, and after them the Knchalc.
The Dlaji section lies farther to the west again. A mile east of Kujuk
cultivation commenced, and we found the people busy ploughing up the
plain in all directio is. Oxen were mostly used, but one man we saw
ploughing with a pair of horses. He had no proper collars or traces for them,
though, and had simply fastened the ordinary wooden yoke for oxen across
their necks by means of ropes and felts.— (C. E. Yate, 1894.)
KULAHABAD—
A village in Khorasan, about 127| miles from Nishapur, on the road to
Herat.— (Kinneir.)
KULAHZAS—
A village on the south front of the Kalat-i-Nadiri plateau in north-east
ern Khorasan. It has a population of 300 families of Kurds and Turks
who possess 700 cattle and 4,000 sheep and goats. The annual production
of wheat and barley in normal years is 16,200 and 9,000 Indian maunds,
respectively.— [MacGregor ; 0 runoff sky, 1894.)
KULUKH FARDl—
, The chief village of the newly settled tract of Persian Hashtadan (q.v.).
Its ancient name, as recorded on old tomb-stones, was Fardeh, while there
was another village near it which was called Kuliikh. The two together were
called Kulukh Fardi.
The new village, which has been built by theNusrat-ul-Mulk near the
ruins of the ancient village or town of Fardi on the northern side of the
Hashtadan plain, is situated at 16 miles from Qarat and 13 miles from
Taiabad. It contains about 20 houses of Timuris and others.
Water good from two old qandts which have been recently repaired.—
(C. E. Yate ; Maula Bakhsh.)
KULUMBEH—
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). on the road to Meshed , 4 miles from Sharifabad and 17
miles south of Meshed. It is built of brick, has water from the Chashmeh-
i-Chinar, and lies on ground belonging to the village Baz-i-Hauz. The
caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). lies in a marshy nald with a spring of water flowing by it.—
[Schindler, C. E. Yaie.)
KULUND—
A halting-place on the border of eastern Khorasan, on the road from Bjr-
j and to Pahri, a stage east of Yazdan.— {MacGregor.)
KUMACH KHUR—
A small fort in Kurdish Khorasan on the road between Kalat and Dar-
reh Gaz.— {MacGregor.)
KUMAR—
A hill in Khorasan, on which the village Kishri is situated A aood view
of Kalat-i-Nadiri is obtainable from its ^{MacGregor*)

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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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