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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎269v] (555/820)

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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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attraction of the tomb of the holy Imam at Sanabad, which had already
caused the absorption of much of the population of Tus, the present city
of Meshed sprang into being.
In 1037 A.D., during the reign of Sultan Mas’ud Ghasnavl, the dome of
the shrine was built and some fortifications erected by Surl, Governor of
Nishapur, and in 1121 A.D., a wall was built which sufficed to protect the
town against a raid of the Ghaz Turkomans in 1153, but did not avail against
the same aggressors 8 years later, when the town was plundered, but the
shrine spared.
In 1296, soon after the accession of Ghazan, great-grandson of Hulaku
Khan, to the throne, the Tartar princes rose against him and one of them,
D ud, son of Burah, sacked Meshed among other towns of Khorasan.
Meshed is mentioned by Yaqut, and also by Batuta who travelled in Kho
rasan in 1334, as a populous town. From his account it is apparent that it
had already attained to considerable importance even before the complete
destruction of Tus, and Chat it was at that time, owing to the tomb of the
Khallf Harun, as much a resort of Sunni, as of Shi’ah, pilgrimage.
In 1418, Sultan Shah Rukh made a pilgrimage to Meshed and presented
the shrine with a golden candelabrum, and the same year saw the comple
tion of the mosque built by his wife, Gauhar Shad.
In 1507, during the reign of Shaibani Khan, the Usbegs captured the
city and massacred many of the inhabitants, and in 1525, at the commence
ment of the reign of Shah Tahm Asp, it was once again besieged and taken
by Ubald Khan Usbeg. Tahm Asp retook it in 1528, but owing to die
unfinished condition of the city walls, he was only enabled to finally secure
it two years later. A further siege by Ubaid Khan in 1535 was rendered
abortive by the strength of the city defences, but the efforts of Muhammad
Sultan Usbeg to capture the city in 1544 were attended by success, and
many of the inhabitants were put to the sword.
In 1579, and again in 1581, Murtaza Quli Khan, a Governor appointed
two years previouslv by Shah Isma’il II, unsuccessfully attempted to hold
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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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