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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [294v] (605/820)
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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and Kirman to Birjand and Herat. The people of Naiband act as guides
to these caravans across the desert. Supplies, fuel and forage here are
procurable, but at high rates. There is a warm spring about f mile away
which does duty as a hdmmdm. J
The hamlet of Zlarat Gah adjoins it. Through Naiband routes pass as
follows, and this constitutes its importance,—from Herat to Kirman vid
Birjand , Herat to Yazd via Birjand; Farah to Kirman and also Yazd
vid Birjand ; Meshed to Kirman vid Tun ; Kirman to Astarabad vid Shah-
rud. There are three marches of desert between Naiband and Khur.
Occasionally the date crop fails, as it did in 1881, when 2,000 date-palms
were killed and others damaged by a heavy fall of snow. —(Stewart’
Mohi-ud-Din ; Baggaley,1909.)
NAIGANU—
See “Nagineh.”
NAIZABAD—
A village in eastern Khorasan, about 25 miles south of Khaf, situated
about 1£ miles south of the road, between Mijnabad and Sangun (Pain).
It consists of 65 families of Tajiks, who are mostly Sunnis. The village
is irrigated by 6 Jcdrizes, the water of which is slightly brackish, and there
is a considerable amount of cultivation in the neighbourhood.— (Zarudni,
1899.)
NAJAF—Lat. 37° 36'-0"; Long. 57° 57'0/
A village in northern Khorasan, on the Chuila nvev.—(Intelligence Divi‘
iion, War Office.)
NAJAFABAD (No. 1)—
A village in northern Khorasan, about 15 miles north-west of Kuchan.
(MacGregor.)
NAJAFABAD (No. 2)—
A village in the Garma Khan sub-division of Bujnurd in Northern Khora
san. —(Mania Bakhsh.)
NAJAFABAD (No. 3.)
A village in Kirman, about 7 miles west of the city of that name, on th e
road to Said-abad.— (Napier, 1899.)
NAJLABAD—
See “ Nazlabad.”
NAKHLAK—
A halting-place in Khorasan, about 20 miles from Ja’afari, on the road
from Yazd to Tabas. There is said to be a spring of tolerably sweet water
here.— (Gill.)
NA’LDAGH (the horse-shoe mountain)—
A peak of the Binalud range, 8,700 feet in height, 3 to 4 miles north
east of Bar.— (Schindler.)
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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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- 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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