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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎310v] (639/820)

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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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PAISTlJ? (No. 1 )—
A village in Khorasan, 20 miles east of Tabas, on the road to Birjand. It
is walled, and contains 100 houses, inhabited by Persians.—(.Femer.)
PAISTAN (No. 2)—
A small village in the Turud sub-district of Shahmd-Buslam on the road
from Yazd to Shahrud, about 90 miles from Shahiud. It lies on the north
edge of the great kavir. — {Schindler.)
PAKHAI or PEHNAI—
A village in northern Khora-an, 11 miles east of Bujnurd, on the road to
Chinaran and Kuchan. It is situated half-way up a glen, which runs south
of the road.— {Napier.)
PALANG DARREH—
A village containing 40 families, in the Isfarain district of Khorasan.—
(//. M. Temple.)
PAL ASH ZINDAN—
Two rugged peaks of the Shahkuh range, overhanging the villages of
Chehar Deh, south of Astarabad and in that district.— {Napier.)
PANJ BIRADARAN—
A pass in Khorasan, on the road between Shirvan and Bujnurd. The
crest of the pass is 450 feet above the level of the plain beneath. The pass
is of easy ascent, and gives access to ‘the plateau of Hazar Jaiib.—
{Napier).
PANJ KUH (No. 1)—
Some low hills in the Shahrud-Bustam district, about 45 miles south
east of Samnan.— {Stewart.)
PANJKUH (No. 2)—
Some low hills near the road from Samnan to Khaf in Khorasan,
about 72 miles from Samnan. There is a kavir on each side of thera.—
[C. E. Stewart.)
PANJ JMANEH (No. 1)—
A conical hi'! in Khorasan, about 8 miles from the village of Qardeh, on
the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri. It is a curious hill, with scarped
sides, and offers an impregnable site from which to command the Al
de file.— {MacGregor.)
PANJ MANEH (No. 2)—
A small village in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district of Khorasan, on the road
from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri, 8^ miles north of Qardeh between Al
and Balghur, being about 2| miles from the former and about 9 miles from
the latter.
^ A short distance from this village, on a block of crystalline limestone
* aiumt 7 f e et high, nearly as broad and very thick, lying high up in

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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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