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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [266v] (549/820)
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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512
MAZ—MAZ
Mazangan has now 50 families. Water good and abundant ; distance
from Mazdaran about 20 miles apparently, and 25 on to Chehcheh. Road
said to be dry all the way even after rain.— (MacLean, 1888.)
MAZDARAN—
Nee “ Muzdaran.”
MAZlNAN (No. 1) (District)—
One of the buluks of the Sabzawar district in Khorasan, with a popula
tion of over 5,000 souls. The district suffered much by the great flood
of 1870, which destroyed some villages and many gardens. It grows
cotton and raises some silk. It pays very little to the Government, but 200
of its men are supposed to be always in readiness to accompany and pro
tect caravans going to and coming from Shahrud. The district has eleven
villages.—(1) Mazinan, (2) Behmanabad, (3) Saviz, (4) Davarzan, (5)
Kaha,_(6) Nehardan, (7) Abrud, (8) Biza, (9) Mur, (10) Kamiabin (also
Chanhabun), (11) Kalaleh. To the latter belong several small hamlets
to the east of the village of Mazinan. The mountain due north of the latter
is the Kuh-i-Biza. The principal water-supply of the district is the stream
which comes from the Garra Kuh, the western part of the Juvain or Jagha-
tai mountain. The ground is very fertile, and the corn-fields of Mazi
nan are of vast extent. On the south and west the district is bounded by a
kavlr or salt marsh, on the north by the Saviz and Jaghatai mountains
on the east the plain extends to Sabzawar.—(NcAMer.)
MAZlNAN (No. 2) (Village) L at. 36° 19' 30"; Long. 56° 44' 0"* Elev
2,800'.
An important village in Khorasan, 54| miles from Sabzawar and 1174
miles from Shahrud. It is the principal place of the Mazinan district {q.v.,
and has 300 houses. The present village was built within the last 17 years
after the o.d \illage, 2 mile to the south, was almost totally destroyed by
a great flood. The new village is enclosed by a wall with 20 towers, and
occupies the site of Yangi Kakh, built during Fath ’Ali Shah’s reign by
the rebel Allah Yar Khan Qilichi of Juvain. Mazinan has a post house, a
telegraph station, a good public bath, a mosque and a college. Between
old and new Mazinan (the former now completely deserted) is a fine cara
vanserai built by Shah ’Abbas II, in A. H. 1074, and close by there
are the ruins of a very ancient building called the
Caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
Mamurii
v from the Abbasi KLaliieh of that name), the bricks of which measured
30 x 27 x 8 centimetres. Out of the 200 tufangchi which the Mazinan dis
trict has to supply, this village has to provide 50. In old Mazinan are
the mms of two mosques ; the place is said to have had at one time over
5,000 inhabitants.— {Schindler .)
MAZRA’EH—
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Sabzawar to Khur. Water is
procurable.— {MacGregor.)
MAZRU—
A village in the Neharjan buluk of the Kain district of Khorasan.—
{Bellew.)
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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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