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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [291v] (599/820)
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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560
MUH—MUH
The village was built some 25 years ago by the present Sahm-ud Dauleh
(Yar Muhammad) and called after him. It is walled all round and con
tains about 100 families of Eazis, and is surrounded by a number of gardens
and vineyards. The Maneh district commences here. Temperature at 4 p.m.
78° (October).— (C. E. Yate, 1894.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 8)—A small village at the eastern end of the Dasht-
i-Shaughan, about 28 miles south-west of Bujnurd and to the north of the
road from Shaughan to Bujnurd.— [Schindler.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 9)—
A village in the province of Astarabad on the road from Astarabad town to
the river Kara Su. It is surrounded by a deep ditch, and has a mud tower
in he centre, pierced wi: h loopholes for musketry. It is on the skirts of the
forest borde'ing on the steppe.— [Holmes.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 10)—
A small village in the Armian sub-district of Shahrud Bustam, 8 miles
from Maiamai to the south-west.— [Schindler.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 11)—
A village in Khorasan, 45 miles east of Tun, on the road to Birjand.
There is water and also supplies here.— [MacGregor.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 12)—
A small village in Khorasan, on the road from Tabas to Nishapur, and
about 40 miles north of the former town. It lies close to the village of
Pashneh Dt-ran.— [Stewart.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 13)— Elev. 3,953—(Napier).
A village in Khorasan, about 52 miles north-west of Birjand.
It contains 250 families, all ’Arabs, and owners of considerable herds of
cattle. The little cultivation here is chiefly cotton. There is a water
course running past this place, the water of which is at the end of the sum
mer very salt, and at all times is brackish .—[Forbes ; Ferrier.)
Muhammadabad is about 40 miles from Khizri on the road to Biiiand.—
[H. D. Napier.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 14)—
A \illage containing 20 families between hdshapur and Qadamgah in
Khorasan.—(//. M. Temple.)
MUHAMMADABAD (No. 15)—
A small village in the Zirkuh buliik of Kain, 51 miles north of Tabas on
the KLaf road and 6 miles from Ahangaran. It has little cultivation of
giain but several gardens and vineyards, and a small kdtiz of good water ;
lire road tlM production of grains is about 300 kharwdrs, and of raisin
about 100 kharwdrs. Th:re arc 60 cattle, 60 donkeys, 500 sheep and
goats, practicable for camels. This section is the only one that presents
any difficulties for wheeled transport between Khaf and Duruh.— (Keyes ;
’Abbas ’AH ) \ . v >
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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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