!['GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎322v] (663/820)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100025472703.0x000001/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_2_1_0663.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎322v] (663/820)")
'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [322v] (663/820)
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. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
620
RAK—RAY
RAK ZAMAN—
A village containing 50 families, between Shlrvan and Zubaran, in the
Kucban district of Khorasan.— {H. M. Temple.)
RAMAZlN—L at. 37° 22' 0"; Long. 58° 27' 0*.
A village in the Darreh Gaz district of north-eastern Khorasan, about
4 miles north-v est of MuhammadaLad. It is inhabited by 20 families of
Kurds, who own 120 cattle and 50 sheep and goats.— {Oranoffsky, 1804)
RAMI AN— Lat. 36° 56' 10"; Long. 55° 8' W—{Napier).
A large village in the province of Astaialad, on the road from Jajarm
to Astaialad, 12 miles west of Naudeh. It is situated near the mouth
of the pass of the same name, up which a good mule-road goes to Buslam
and Shah^ud. It contains 400 houses and has a telegraph office.—
{MacLean.)
RAMSHIN—
A village of 40 houses in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, 14 miles
north-west of Tabas. Ramshin pays a yearly revenue of 650 tumdns .—
{Schindler.)
RANjAN (also RANJIN) —
A village 16 miles from Shahrud, near Deh Mulla in the Zirustak sub-
district of Shahrud-Bustam.— {Schindler.)
raqAsG—
A village in the Kakh buluk of the Tabas district of Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
RAQAT or RIKAT— Elev. 4,950' — {Napiei).
A village in Khoiasan, 15 miles from Birjand towards Kirn an. It is
walled, and contains 100 houses, inhabited by Persians.— {Ferrier.)
RASHID ABAD—
A village in the Taht-i-Julgah sub-division of the Nishapur district in
Khoeasan, 21 miles from the Ma’dan villages a’d 11 from Nishapm.
It has about 50 families. The water-supply is excellent from a qavdt.
Supplies are plentiful. Ca-avans from Nishapur to Kuchan and Askhabad
pass this way.— {H. M. Temple ; Ringler Thomson, 1895.)
RASMANLG—
A small village in the Bujnurd valley in northern Khoiasan, inhabited
by Sbadillu Kurds. Water good. Supplies procurable in small quanti
ties. —{Mania Bakhsh.)
RAVAR or LUVAR — Elev. 4,000'.
A town in Kirman, situated in a well-watered valley, 31 miles south of
Dir band and about 83 miles north of Kirman, on the Kirman-Naitand
road.
With a population of 8,000 persons, including 60 families belonging to
the Nakai nomads, Ravar is a town of some importance, as being the
first place for a distance of nearly 200 miles at which a force of any size
About this item
- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (396 folios)
- Physical characteristics
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.
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [322v] (663/820), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/2/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100037360152.0x000040> [accessed 18 April 2024]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037360152.0x000040
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037360152.0x000040">'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎322v] (663/820)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037360152.0x000040"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100025472703.0x000001/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_2_1_0663.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100025472703.0x000001/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/2/1
- Title
- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I'
- Pages
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence