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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [253v] (523/820)
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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LAN—LftK
form the centre of the position. To the east of the village, about three
quarters of a mile distant, is an old mud fort. The lower spurs on both
sides of the valley would make suitable artillery positions.
In the winter the centre of the valley near the village forms a marsh
about 2 miles long.— {H. D. Napier ; Mania Bakhsh ; Wanliss, 1903.1
LANGAR (No. 2)— Lat. 37° 34' 6" ; Long. 57° 14' 0"—(Stewart).
A village in the Bujnurd district of Khorasan, situated in the Simalqan
valley, about 8 miles north-west of the town of Bujnurd and 20 miles south
west of Badranlu. Supplies abundant.— (MacLean.)
LANGARAK—
A village in Khorasan, on the right bank of the Kashaf Rud, 30 miles to
the east of Meshed. It is inhabited by some 20 Kuhsani, Barbari, Zlzdi
and Kirmani families, and is the property of HajI Mirza ’All Khan. There
is a ruined shrine of Baba Zang Shah, the tomb bearing the name and
nothing more. The valley of the Kashaf Rud between Langarak and
Kichidar is most fertile, with many new Barbari villages. The annual
production of wheat and barley is 2,700 and 1,800 Indian maunds
respectively.— (Oranoffsky, 1894 ; Sykes, 1905.)
larg-
A village containing 30 families, on the left bank of the stream going to
Firang, in the Kuhsar sub-division of the Astarabad district.— (MacLean.)
lavandan—
A stage in Khorasan, 28 miles from Pusht-i-Badam, on the road to Nisha-
pur by Deh-i-Nau Band. There is a spring of sweet water here, but no
dwelling or supplies.— (Gill.)
LINDI— Elev. 9,000'.
A peak in Astarabad, 9,000 feet high, between" Ch-harbagh and Ziarat.—
(Lovett.)
LUJ—
A village in the Khaf district of Khorasan, 3 miles west of Khaf, situated
at the foot of the hills.— (Clerk.)
LUJALI— Lat. 37° 39' 0"; Long. 57° 40' 0".
A village in northern Khorasan, about 18 miles north of Shirvan.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
LUKK-I-SHlRBAD—
Name of one of the highest peaks of the Binalud or Nishapur mountain
in Khorasan.— (C. E. Yate.)
LUKK I-TARSA—
‘ Tii * fearful camel.’ Oneof the highest peaks of the Binalud range in
Khorasan, r's'ng a few hundred feet above the pass on the Meshed-Nishapur
road..— (C.E Yate.)
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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