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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [314r] (646/820)
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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hundred yards on the road to Pas Kamar is an old
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, which
should be repaired and held by the Persians as an outpost. —(Maclean
1888 .) . ,
In order to facilitate traffic between Russian and Persian territories
the bridge at Puhi-Kbatun was repaired by the Russians during 1897,
half the cost being paid by the Russian Government and half by the
Persian Government.
i. The Hari Rud forms the boundary between Persian and Russian terri
tory between Pul-i-Khathn and Sarakhs. The normal strength of the garri-
son at Puhi-Khatun is a sotfnia of Cossacks, 100 strong.—(Mawk Bakhsh)
There is also a Frontier Guard Post, consisting of a Commander, 15
mounted and 5 dismounted men, and 5 Turkomans.
PUL-I-SHAH or PUL-I-SHAHI—
A bridge in Khorasan over the Kashaf Rud, or Ab-i-Meshed, 5| miles
from Meshed. It is a good masonry bridge, about 30 feet wide. The
streams itself seems also to be sometimes called by this name. The
! Kh\*aja Rabia’ (q.v.) shrine is just above it.— (tie Blocqueville ; MacGregor \
Napier.)
PUL-I-SHIKASTEH—
A hamlet containing 10 families, in the Marush valley of the Hshaput
district in Khorasan, on the road from Rashidalad to the town of JSTsfca-
phr.— (H. M. Temple.)
PURAS—
A village in the Turbat district of Rhorasan.^—
PURKAK-
A village in the Bijistan sub-division of the Tabas district of Rhora-
san.— (Bellew.)
PUSHT-l-BADAM— EleV. 3,800'.—
A village on the eastern border of Yafcd, and 108f miles north-east of that
town on the road to Tabas, It is described as a hideous village at the bottom
of an equally hideous stony valley. It has, however, a good deal of culti«
vation round it, and has good but brackish water and a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
,
of brick, new and in good order. Gold is said to have been found here.—
(Christie ; MacGregor / Sykes, 1905.)
PUSHT FARGSH—
A village in northern Khorasan, 18 miles east of Nrshapur, on the road
to Meshed.— (Bellew.)
PUSHT-I-lSMAK—
A halting-place in Khorasan, 8 miles from Turhn, on the road from
Shahrud to Turshiz. There is a good camping-ground here and plenty
of wateir—(Taylor.)
4 G 2
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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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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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