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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎287r] (590/820)

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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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in ruins, but through the liberality of the Shahab-ul-Mulk, Governor-
General of Khorasan, a new yakka caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). sufficient to shelter 2,000
men and beasts has been built—a very defensible and solid building that
could not be taken without artillery, if properly defended. The population
of the village annexed to this caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). is also increasing and freely
cultivating the land near the serai.
Water is got from a reservoir outside the serai. Supplies are very scanty.
Close on the left of the serai is a small walled village, square, with bastions
at the angles, containing about three houses, and with about 30 inhabitants.
It is surrounded by a wall and dry ditch on three sides, the fourth being
connected with the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). .
This fort is garrisoned by about 40 or 50 matchlock-men, who receiva
the unusually good pay of 100 tumdns (about £20) a year. Tin water is
small in quantity and bad.
There is very little cultivation. The two or three gardens, which the
inhabitants have, are at the foot of some mountains two hours, distant,
where there is a small stream. These gardens are not sufficient to supply
the wants of these few families, who purchase their barley and straw and
other supplies from Maiamai, and resell them at a large profit. Hay is to
be found at some distance from the present buildings.— (Clerk ; Napier ;
Khanikoff ; Bellew.)
The ruins of the old Kaleh are at present called Bdgh-i-SJidh, and perhaps
represent the station Kuhandiz of Arab authors. The present Kaleh was
built by HajI Mirza Akasi, the Prime Minister of Muhammad Shah. It
has 50 houses (or is supposed to have) of TTmuri ’Arabs from the Kalateh-i-
’Arab-u-’Ajam, 16 miles north-west of Miandasht. The o’d caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). of
Mland&sht dates from the time of Shah ’Abbas, and was repaired in A.H. 1291
by Eaji ’Ali Naki ; the new caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). was built by Husain Khan
Nizam-ud-Dauieh at a cost of over £40,000. The village and the old and
new caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). are enclosed by a wall, and altogether form a strong and
very defensible building. In one of the courts are two cisterns, and outside
the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). is a large cistern with two ventilating towers. The
accommodation in the caravanserais consists of 86 rooms with doors,
27 rooms open to the front, many passages and immense stables. Of the
50 families who are supposed to reside here, and receive pay from
Government for that purpose, 30 are generally away in the Kalateh i-
’Arab-u-’Ajam.
Miandasht has a post-house and a telegraph station of the Persian
Government.— (Schindler.)
MIANDEH— Lat. 34° 52' 30"; Long. 58° 38' 30"—(Walker).
A village in Khorasan, so called from its position midway (midn) be
tween Meshed and Tabas. It is the southern limit of the Turbat-i-Haidari
district. The Tabas district commences at the confines of the village.
Miandeh contains about 70 families of Qarals at present. The water-
supply depends on a kdriz which contains brackish water, but sweet rain
water is procurable from two water-reservoirs built outside the village.
(Maula Bakhshi C. E. Yale.)

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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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