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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [250r] (516/820)
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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KUSHKI—
A village containing 60 families, in the Isfarain district of Khorasan.
See Jushqan.—(//. M. Temple.)
KUSHKU — Elev. 4,661'.
A village in Kirman, 93 miles from the town of that name, on the road
to Yazd. It is the head of a small district of the same name, and contain
besides a fort,
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and chapar Tdidneh, some 200 houses with about
800 inhabitants. It is supplied with sweet water from a qandl.
The district of Kushku consists of 20 small villages and hamlets , with
■ Digtrict an aggregate of some 700 houses. It pro
duces annually 65,000 mans of wheat and
barley, 23,500 mans of cotton, and some millet and vegetables.
The muUdt is 1 200 tumdns.~(Preece, 1892 ; Wood, 1899.)
KUSHTANI (No. 1) (Pass)—
See “ Kutal-i-Khushtam.”
KUSHTANI (No. 2) (Village)—
A village in north-east Khorasan, between Meshed and Darreh Gaz.—
[MacGregor.)
KUTAL— Lat. 37° 48' 0"; Long. 57° 43' 39".
A village in northern Khoia.an, about 38 miles north-east of Buj-
nurd.— {Intelligence Division, War Office.)
KUTAL DIVA BAIJAND—
The point where the main range of Khorasan, here called Kuh Aleh Dagh,
begins to throw out fewer and fewer spurs, until it dies awav in undula
tions terminated by the Tejen.— {MacGregor.)
KUTALl—
A village in Kurdish Khorman, 5 miles west of Muhammada^ad and
about 5 miles north of the road thence to WudAn.~{MacGregor.)
KUTAL-I-AKDARBAND—
A steep pass on the west side of the Kfih-i-Hazar Masjid {q.v.) with a
descent from 8,200 to 6,000 feet in 14 miles.—(ifa/or P. M. Sykes, 1909.)
KUTAL-I-GIRVAN—
ji pass between the villages of Girvan and Siah Khaneh, in the Bui-
nurd district of Khorasan. The pass is stony, with a long, steep ascent. It
is passable for aden animals, but not for wheeled traffic.—(P. M. Temple.)
KUTAL-I-HUNKl—
A pass in Kurdish Khorasan, above the Atrak river, and about 48 miles
from Bujnurd on the road to Chikishlyar. The ascent from the east ia
steep, but this kutal has been crossed by guns.—{MacGregor, from native
, information.)
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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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