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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎265v] (547/820)

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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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MAR-MA&
MARSANG—
The second stage on the road from Nishapur to Damghan, 56 miles
west of the former.— (Kinneir.)
MARtJSH (No. 1) oe MARISHK— .
The head-quarters of the Chul-i-Khaneh sub-district of the Meshed dis
trict, situated on the road between Meshed and Kakhka, 40 miles from the
former and 50 miles from the latter place. It has a population of 1,000
Chuli Turks who own 300 cattle and 800 sheep and goats, and 20 horses
The annual production of wheat and barley is 13,500 and 9,000 Indian
maunds respectively.— (Oranoffsky, 1894; Watson, 1905.)
MARUSH (No. 2) or MARtJSHK (District)—
Also called Julgah-i-Marus, Khak-i-’Amarlu (ground of the ’Amarlu)
Darreh-i-Safid Rud. A small sub-district of Nishapur, the revenue of
which amounts to about 1,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. . The district is inhabited by
’Amarlu Kurds. It is bounded on the east by the high Binalud range
and the sub-district Bar, on the west by the turquoise mine hills and the
sub-district Bar-i-Ma’dan, on the north its boundary is the watershed
separating the Safid Rud drainage from that of the Sultan Mi iIan river,
and southwards it joins the Takht Julgah sub-district of Nishapur. The
plain is watered by the system of the Safid Rud and is very fertile,
but has lately been much neglected. The great famine and since then
the almost chronic appearance of a kind of plague have much im
poverished the country. The Kurds of the ’Amarlu tribe (q.v.) formerly
a^so held most of the villages of the Bar district. The villages of Marush
are Zarandi, Saiyid Quli, Kalateh-i-Mamish Khan, Marjan, Marush,
Kalateh-i-Isma’il, Tang-i-Pain, Tang-i-Bala, Karji, Kalateh-i-Mulla, Kala-
teh-i-Murad, Burj, Kalateh-i-Mulla Ja’afar ’Ali, Kaleh-i-Mustauii, Kala-
teh-i-Shahi, Khanavar.— {Schindler.)
MARUSH (No. 3) or MARUSHK (Village)—
The chief village in the huluk of the same name in the district of Nisha
pur, Khorasan, inhabited by the thieving tribe of ’Amarlu Kurds. It is 21
miles from the town of Mshapur and 14 miles north from the turquoise
mines of Ma’dan. It is a large village, with good water and supplies pro
curable. Near here is a salt mine. Besides the usual grain crops, some
rice is produced. The estimated revenue of Marush is 1,000 tumdns, and
the estimated population 400.— {Napier; MacGregor.)
MARZAN—
A village containing 60 families of Baiat Turks, 4 miles from Mashkau
in the Sar-i-Vilaiat district of Khorasan.— {H. M. Temple.) >
MASIIKAN—
A village in the Sar-i-Vilaiat district of Khorasan on the borders of the
Nishapur district, on the road to Sultan Maidan.
It has 100 families of Baiat Turks. Water from a qandt Supplies
procurable. This village has only one small garden. A road from Sal>
zawar to Kuchan passes through Maskan.

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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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