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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎305r] (626/820)

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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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on it. This marble slab, it is alleged, was founu there and is now preserved
in a sh.ine specially constructed to contain it. The shrine was erected
during the reign of’Abbas I, and repaired by Shah Sulaiman A. H. 1091 (1680).
In the garden surrounding the building are some very fine fir; and planes.
In 1876, when I first visited Qadamgah, 38 firs were standing; in 1883
there were only 34 ; some are over 90 feet in height. An avenue of fir trees
leads from the shrine into the plain in the direction of the Kibleh (Mecca) ;
in 1876 the avenue had 28 trees ; now there are only 25, and of those there
a e th ’•ee dead. Qadamgah has about 600 inhabitants, mostly Saiyids.
Other villages of thi district are—Pishiuiinh, Darmd, Daiughi, Chachang,
Urdu!, Daulatabad, Muhammadabad, Baz-i-Haidar, Mushan, Dana, Sakht-
dar, Kuruna, Chinaran, Baishin, Dizbad-i-Bala, ’Ali Kiln.
(11) 'Ishqabad lies to the south of the Darb-i-Kazi and Taht-i-Julgah sub
districts, and has 39 villages, with 3,000 inhabitants. The chief place of
the district is ’Ishqabad, 5 miles south-west of Qadamgah. Other villages
are Kushkeh, Deh-i-Nau, Khairabad, Mihdiabad, ’Azizabad, ’Aliabad, Kasimi,
Sulaimani, Farisha, Shahrabad, Deh-i-Nizam, Nas.abad, Ahmadabad,
Fathabad, Naimabad, Ourgl, Hasanabad, ’Ainabad, Karizi, Taklabad.
(12) 'Is-haq-dbdd lies south of Ard h Ghizh and Zabar Khan sab-districts,
and has 12 small villages with barely 800 inhabitants. The chief place
is ’ Ishqabad, other villages are Husainabad, Ahmadabad, Riiba, Jehanabad,
Arghish, Zanka, Samulabad, Ismatabad.
(13 ) Marush, or Marushk is a district inhabited by the ’Amarlu Kurds.
Thft ’A jc a district is called Julgeh i-Marush (the plain of
Marush from Marush, principal village of the dis
trict), or Khak-i-’Amarlu (the ground of the ’Amarlu), or Darreh-i-Safid Rud
(“ valley of the white river”), or simply Kurdistan. This little district
formerly had a separate governor, who generally resided at Meshed, but at-
present it forms one of the sub-divisions of Nishapur. It is watered by the
Safid-rud and bounded on the east by the high mountains of Bar, on the
west by the Bar-i-Ma’dan district, on the south by the Nishapur district
and on the north by the district Sar-i-Vilaiat. The ’Amarlu Kurd,
were brought here by Nadir Shah, and number at present about 500
families, which are divided into five branches, viz., Bigarlu, Urtukanlu,.
Izillu, Bai, and Haftad-u-Du Millat. The villages of this district are—
Zarandi, Said Quli, Kalateh-i-Mamish Khan, Marjan, Marush, Kalateh-i-
IsmaTl, Tang-i-Paln, Tang-i-Bala, Karji, Kalateh-i-Mulla, Kalateh-i-Murad
Bu r ’j, Kalateh-i-Mulla Ja’afar-’Ali, Kaleh-i-MustaufI, Kalateh-i-Shahi,
Sineh-i-Asp-i-Pain, Khunavar, Sinoh-i-Asp-i-Bala—(JFafson, 1906.)
Note.— The annual output of grain in the Nishapur district is estimated at 23,280
kherwdrs (of 650 lb. each). Of this about 20,000 kharudrs are exported to Meshed
and to the Tehran pilgrim road, and sometimes towards Yazd and Kirman. Tha
transport available for hire is estimated as follows: —
Camels .. .. .. ,, .. 500
Mules and ponies.. .. .. .. 100
Donkeys .. ., ,. , t 4 . 500
(Maula BakhsK.)

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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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