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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎317v] (653/820)

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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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last part is rather steep. The soil is salt and the hills grassy with little
wood on their southern slopes, while the northern slopes are covered with
dense forests. The top of the pass forms broad, grassy downs.
Bearings from the pass. Dasht-i-Shah summit 278° ; village of Dasht
59° ; Kumli hill 79° ; Khwaja Kamar 232°.— (MacLean.)
QARATlGAN (No. 1)— >
A river in Khorasan, rising in the Kara Dagh mountains, some 50 miles
north of Meshed, and flowing from west to east to the north of the strong
hold of Kalat-i-Nadiri, forces its way through the Mazdaran range by
a winding defile nearly 5 miles long. This gorge opens on a plain on which,
at a distance of 17 miles from the outlet, lie the scattered ruins of Mihna.
The Qaratigan loses itself in a swamp about 10 miles beyond Mihna.—
[Nayier\ Petrusevitch.)
QARATlGlN (No. 2)— Lat. 36° 51' lO" ; Long. 60° 16' 0”—{Napier.)
A frontier village on the south-eastern border of the Kalat-i-Nadiu
district in Khorasan. The population consists of 150 families of Persians
with a few Turks, who possess 120 cattle and 200 sheep and goats. The
annual production of wheat and barley amounts to 7,(XX) and 4,500
Indian maunds respectively. There are two roads from this village into
Kalat—one goes outside the stronghold to the south for about 7 farsaJchs,
and is level and good ; another, by Kushtani and the Band-i-Dukhtar.
There is also a road in the opposite direction to Meshed.— {MacGregor ;
OranoffsJcy, 1894.)
QARAVAL (No. 1)— Lat. 38° 25' 0"; Long. 57° 8' 0".—{Stewart.)
A peak in the Kupeh Dagh range of the Elburz Mountain.— {Stewart.
QARAVAL (No. 2)—
A stream in northern Khorasan, which drains the Qalpush ridge to the
west, falling into the Gurgan river.— {Napier.)
QARAVAL or KUH-I-QARAVAL (No. 3)—
A range of hills to the south of the Nardeh plain in northern Khorasan,
those in the north being known as the Gurgan.— {MacGregor.)
QARCHl—
A village in the Kuh Paleh district of ShahrQd-Bustam — {Schindler.)
QARDCHG— Lat. 37° 33' 0"; Long. 57° 20' O''
A village in uorthern Khorasan, 5 miles north of Bujnurd.— {Intelli
gence Division, War Office.) .
QARDEH— Lat. 36° 39' 0"; Long. 59° 41' 30"; Elev. 5,000'.—(^ J ohn.)
A small village inthe Chul-I-Khaneh sub-division of the Meshed district
of Khorasan, 23 miles north of Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-Nadiri. It
is situated in a small valley, running north and south for 2 miles, and
about^f mile broad ; the whole covered with cultivation and gardens. The
village is at the north end, near the Darband of Al, and contains some

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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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