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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [290r] (596/820)
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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MlRABAD (No. 1)—
A village 18 miles from Meshed, north of Tus. (Schindler.)
MlRABAD (No. 2)—A village 43 miles from Meshed on the road to
Kuchan.— (Schindler.)
MlRABAD (No. 3) or MIHRABAD—
A range of hills in Khorasan, which bound the plain of Nishapur on the
east, and lie between Meshed and Nishapur, being crossed by the Danud
pass, 9,300 feet. They are described as high, bare, and stony, and are
called further north the ‘ Bin lud Kuh ’ range. They are a spur from the
Elbmz hills.— (Clerk.)
MIRANDlZ—L^ t. 34° 4a' O" ; Long. 58° 23' O"— (Napier).
A fortified village in Khorasan, 2 miles to the west of the road from
Bijistan to Meshed, on the borders of the kavir, or salt desert. (Bellew.)
MlRl—
A village in Kurdish Khorasan, about 8 miles east of Kuchan. It has
about 100 houses and an abundant supply of good water ; but there are no
gardens or trees about it.— (MacGregor.)
MIRVAN—
A village in northern Khorasan. It is situated on the hills, about
16 miles west-north-west of Kuchan.— (MacGregor.)
MlRZA KUSHTI—
A pass in Khorasan, 56 miles'from Meshed and 4 miles from Yardeh, on
the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri. This watershed drains to Kalat on one side
and towards the Dasht-i-Turkoman on the other.
The descent down this on the northern side of the hills was very steep,
comprising first a sudden drop from an elevation of some 6,400 feet to
about 5,000 to the bed of a ndld, where water is reached.— (C. E. Yate.)
mIrzazai—
The name of a clan of Baluchis resident in Persia, numbering about 400
families.— (Stewart.)
misgaran—
A village in the Meshed district of Khorasan, 12 miles north-west of
•• Meshed. It has a population of 50 Persian families, who own 75 cattle and
100 sheep and goats. The annual production of wheat and barley is 3,600
and 2,700 Indian maunds, respectively.—(Orano#s%, 1894.)
MISHKAN—
A village in Khorasan, about 27 miles from Sabzawar, on the road to
Nishapur by Ma’dan, and 60 miles north-west of Nishapur. It is described
as a considerable village.—; MacGregor.]
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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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- 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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