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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎295v] (607/820)

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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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568
NAQ—NAR
NAQAB (N 0 . 2) or NAUGHlB—
A large village in the Gunabad sub-division of the Tabas district of Khora-
Ban, 15 miles north of Birjand, on the road to Tun. It is described as a
detestable place, treeless, waterless, and without cultivation. (Bellew •
MacGregor.) ‘ v ’
NAQAB (No. 3) or NAUGHAB—
A village in the Nimbuluk sub-division of the Kaln district ofJKhorasan
Water and supphes procurable. It is two stages from Birjand, on *he road
to babzawar. Stewart found the place almost deserted in 1882 though
crops were growing in the fields.—(AfacGre^or; Stewart.) ‘
NAQSHBANDI—
A sect founded in the eighth century of the Hijra by the famous Shaikh
Baha-ud-Dm Naqshband, who was born in A. H. 718,—died and was buried
near Bokhara in 791. Naqshbandis chiefly inhabit the village of Langar
an ancient and modern village, 85 miles south-east of Meshed belondna
to their sect.— (KhaniJcoff.) ’ S ®
NARAB—
A village of 50 houses in Khorasan, on the road from Nardin to Bustam.
It belongs to the Fidarisk sub-district of Astarabad, and just beyond it is
the frontier between Fidarisk and Nardin. The inhabitants of this village
are of the Haidar Purzi tribe and were removed from Jaghatai in Juvain
where they lived, by Muhammad Zaman Khan Kajar during Fath ’Ali Shah’s
. reign. The hifls round about Na.ab are called Kuh-i-Qiadash • some
times this name is applied to the low range between Narab and Gulistan
forming the Fidarisk frontier.— (Schindler.)
NARDIN (No. 1) (District)—
A district in Khorasan, consisting of some fertile highlands west of Jajarm.
ihe Nardin plain runs west to east and is about 20 miles long and 2 miles
wide. _ The hills surrounding the plain are barren. To the south of the
plam is the Ad Dagh (Ad mountain), to the west the Kuh-i-Kabuda, a spur
of the Kuh-i-Zanvan and the Gurgab pass, to the north-west a road leads
over the hills by the Gardaneh-i-Kaleh-i-Guri to the Qalpush plain, on the
north-east is the Kuh-i-Danial, and on the east is the Du Kuh. The princi-
pai villages^ the district are Nardin, Gulistan, Talbun, Husainabad,
INamk, and Baghcheh. The sub-division numbers roundly 2,000, and is
able to furnish 300 or 400 armed peasantry.—(Napier ; Schindler.)
NARDIN (No. 2) (Pass)— Elev. 5,400'.
A pass in Khorasan, from the Gurgan plain to Jajarm and eastward. It
ha_s fewer natural difficulties than any other line in the Elburz. It lies in
a direct line between Astarabad and Jajarm, in the very track of any force
marching from the sea to the east; and for the construction of a railway
offers facilities only exceeded by the more circuitous route by the Gurgan
defile. Ihe ascent and descent of this pass are both easy, the elevation
above the valley being 1,500 feet. Thirty guns were taken over by the
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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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