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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [319v] (657/820)
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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QIR-QIR
QIRIQ— Lat. 37° 37' 0"; Long. 57° 0' O'.
A village in northern Khoiasan, 20 miles north-west of Bujnhrd.— (In*
telligence Division, War Office.)
QIRIQ GAZ (No. 1)—
A stage in northern Khorasan, about 60 miles from Nardin, on the
road to Kara Kala.— (Taylor, Thomson.)
QIRIQ GiZ (No. 2)—
A low ridge in the same locality as the above, between the Kara Jhkar
hills and the Atak.— (MacGregor.)
QlRlR—
See Qirrikh.
QIRISH—
A village in the Nimbuluk sub-division of the Kain district of Khora-
san.— (Bellew.)
QIRISHMAR. QIRISHMAL, KARISHMAR or KARISHMAL—
Term applied to gypsies in Khorasan. The people of this tribe are
scattered all over Persia. In some parts they are called Fayuj (Arabic),
in some Gharibzadeh (descendants of strangers), and in others Qirishmar.
They are also called Koli, or Kauli and Gharbal Band from the sieves they
make) in some places. The word Qirishmar is a corruption of Ghair-i-
Shumar which means ‘ out of the count.’
It is said that 12,000 families of gypsies were brought to Persia by one
of the Sassanian kings, named Bahram Gur, (A.D. 420), to act as musicians
and singers in the country, and that some of these found their way to other
countries, while others remained in Persia.
They are said to number several thousand families in Khorasan.
The total number of the tribe in the whole of Persia is estimated to be
about 10,000 families.
They are divided into numerous sections, each section following a
different calling, ironwork, leather-work, sieve-making, blending, tambou
rine and drum- making, and fortune-telling being their chief professions.
Their women go about unveiled and are generally so wicked, vicious and
and debased that the word Qirishmar or Qirishmal has become a term of
reproach in Persia.
The whole of this tribe in Persia is under the Shah’s Shatirldshi, who
collects their taxes and rules them through his deputies in each province,
who are independent of the local authorities.— (Mania Bakhsh.)
QIRMIZKUL—
Name of the Yangi Kaleh stream in the Kushkaneh sub-division of the
Kuchan district of Khorasan.— (0. E. Yate.)
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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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- 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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