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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎308v] (635/820)

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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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592
NIS-NUR
population of about 1,200, and possesses 200 cattle, 1,300 sheep and goats
and 200 camels. There is a a abundant supply of water from 5 kdrlzes, and
considerable cultivation of wheat, barley and tobacco. The annual produc
tion of wheat and barley in ordinary years (§ wheat, £ barley) is about
9,000 Indian maunds, and of tobacco about 1,800 Indian maunds. There
are a number of pine (ndju) plantations in Nishtafun and the neighbouring
villages, and every tobacco field is surrounded by a high wall and rows of
these trees to protect the crop from the wind. Some 2,000 of these pine
trees were cut down and used as telegraph poles for the Meshed-Sistan line;
their average price was 2£ Jcrdns each. There are 23 windmills and
3 watermills, each of the former capable of grinding 27 Indian maunds and
the latter 30 Indian maunds in 24 hours. There is a tax of 8 Jcrdns 'per
annum on each windmill. The total mdl at of the village is 1,300 krdns.
There is an old ruined fort situated on a hill to the south of the village,
which is commanded by a high hill about a mile to the west. The majority
of the inhabitants are Sunnis.— (C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
NISK—
A hamlet of some 20 houses, in the Meshed district of Khorasan, about
5 miles south-east of the Band-i-Fariman and 60 miles from Meshed. The
inhabitants are Barbarls (Hazaras).— (Sykes, 1905.)
NIVANABlD—
A village in northern Khorasan, 12 J miles west of Meshed, on the road to
Nishapur.— (Rozario.)
NtJABAD—
A village of Khorasan, 22 miles from NishapUr, on the road to Yazd.
It is situated on a stream of salt water running east to west.— (Gill.)
NUKH—
A small river in the KUcha-i district of Khorasan, joining the Tatarik
It flows westward to Kuchan.— (Petrusevitch.)
NtKHAN— Elev. 6,600'.
A village situated in a small valley south of the S .qi watershed, on the
road between Birjand and Kam, 20? miles from the former and 50 miles
from the latter. The village consists'of a ruined fort and 10 houses, and
about 40 inhabitants. The annual production of wheat and barley (§ wheat,
| barley) in ordinary years is about 105 Indian maunds. The Meshed-
Sistan telegraph line passes close to the village. Plentiful and good
water-supply— (C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
NUQA-ABAD—
A village containing 20 families, between Rashidabad and Nishapur in
Khorasan.—(//. M. Temple.)
NURABAD—
A village in Khorasan, situated in a valley surrounded by hills, on the
road from Sabzawar to the turquoise mines at Ma’dan. It is between
Za’afarani and Nishapur.— (Khanikoff.)

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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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