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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [300v] (617/820)
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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NAU—NEH
NAUZAD—
A village in the Khusf sub-division of the Kain district in Khorasan.
(Bellew.) It contains about 100 houses.— (H. M. Temple, 1900.)
NAUZARABlD—
A village 11 miles from Meshed, about 1J miles to the right of the road
to Kuchan.— (Schindler.)
NAUZARI or NAUZRlN—
A village and old fort in Khorasan, 27 miles from Meshed, on the road
to Sarakhs by Akdarband. The road crosses the Kashaf Rud here.
The village belongs to the shrine at Meshed, and contains 80 families of
Barbaris, who own 300 cattle and 1,000 sheep and goats. The normal
annual production of wheat and barley amounts to 800 kharwdrs .—
(MacGregor ; Oranoffsky, 1891; Smyth, 1906.)
NAZAR-I-ALAMDAR—
A small village of Khorasan, 88 miles sou'-sou’-east of Meshed, to the
north of the road from Turbat-i-Haidari to Herat, with a population of
15 Baluchi and Qarai families.— (Sykes, 1905.)
nazlabAd or nazulabad—
A village of 50 houses in northern Khorasan, 7 miles east of Sabzawar
and 12 miles west of Za’afarani. It has an old mosque with a dome about
50 feet high, in which traces of Cufic writing are visible. Close by is the
grave of Imamzadeh Suftan Saiyid Hasan. The high road from Sabza
war to Nishapur passes this village a few hundred yards to the south
{Belleiv; Clerk-, Schindler.)
KEHARDAN—
A village of 100 houses, in the Mazinan sub-district of Sabzawar, in Khora
san, 12 miles north-east of Mazinan. It gives 18 tufangchis towards the
200 of the Mazinan district.— (Schindler.)
NEHARJAN, or narjan—
One of the sub-divisions of the Kain district in Khorasan.
It contains the following villages (Bellew and Bell) Sarbisheh* (300
* Marked on the map. houses^, Husainabad* (^00 houses), Duruh*
(300 houses), Mud* (300 houses), Nau Afriz*
(350 houses). Bujd* (100houses), Birjand* (1,850 houses), Dastaghich*
Baidar* Bija* (300 houses), Behulgird (300 houses), Ghughu, Zulish,
Shika, Buska, Fanud, Arvand, Murtavang, Yakka Darakht, Hajiabad,
Mazrua, Aliabad, Ispardi, Isfirud, Amirabad, Barkad, Akbaria,* Kalat
AvadI,* Kalat-i-Haji, Rikat i-Bala,* Rikat-i-Pam.
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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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