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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [265r] (546/820)
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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MARAQ—
A poor little village in the Alghfir buluk of the Kain district of Khorasan
about 11 miles to the eastward of Birjand, on the road from Chahrakhts.—
(Bellow; Stewart.)
MARAVEH TAPPEH—
A frontier post in northern Khorasan, 72 miles north-west of Bujniird
on the road to Chatll. There are water, fuel, and forage in abundance Jiere.
—(MacGregor ; A star ab ad Trade Report, 1909.)
mardusha—
A village in the Nimbuluk (Dasht-i-Piaz) buluk of the Kain district
of Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
MARGHAR-I-BAD ’ALI—
A village of 40 houses, 4 miles from Kfichan, on the road to Shlrvan.
At a short distance to the west of the village on a large mound are the
ruins of a large fort with traces of thirty towers, called Hakimabad.—
(Schindler.)
MARGHZAR—
A village of 300families of Qarais, situated about 25 miles east of Turbat-
i-Haidarl.— (P. M. Sykes, 1907.)
MARGIS— Lat. 38° 35' 6"; Long. 56° 5' Q".—(Stewart).
A village in the north-western corner of Khorasan, about 46 miles from
Chah-i-Chand r, on the road to the Atak.— (Stewart.) Probably in Russia.
MARIAN—
A village in the Gavarishk sub-division of the Darzab buluk of the Meshed
district of Khorasan. It contains 360 Persian families, who own 100 cattle
and 120 sheep and goats. The normal annual production of wheat and
barley is 2,700 Indian maunds.— (Oranoffsky, 1894.)
MARlSH—
See “ Marush.”
MARKUH (No. 1)—
A remarkable conical hill, 8 miles north-east of Birjand.— (G olds mid ;
Bellew.)
MARKUH (No. 2)— Lat. 37° 55' 6" ; Long. 57° 56' 0".—(Stewart.)
A hill in northern Khorasan, 35 miles north of Shlrvan, on the border
of the Atak.— (Stewart.)
MARKGH (No. 3)— Elev. 7,460'.
(The serpent’s hill.) A peak about 8 miles north-west of Sultan Maidan
with an elevation of 7,460 feet. Between it and ’Ashuq Kuh (q.v.) the
Sultan Maidan river flows.— (Schindler.)
A solitary hill about 2 miles south of Yangija in the Sar-i-Yi 1 aIat
district of Khorasan.— (G. 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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- 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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- 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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