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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [324v] (667/820)
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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622
RAZ—RIG
*
RAZMAKAN—
A village of 20 houses, about 28 miles south-east of Bujnurd, some miles
south of the road from Bujnurd to Shirvan.— {Schindler.)
RAZUQ—
The name of a small village with some walled vineyards and fruit gar dens
3| miles on the north side of the village of Ghip Khorasan.— (Bellew ;
Rozario.)
RAZVAN—
See RIzan.
RAZYIA—
See Rizvia.
RIAB—
A village in the Gunabad buluk of the Tabas district of Khomsan.
Supplies procurable.— {MacGregor.)
RlABlD— Lat. 36° 42' 10"; Long. 55° 49' 30"; Elev. 3,367'—(Lemm).
A village of tb^ Ealateh-i-’Arab-u-’Ajam {q.v.), 46 miles from Shahrud.—
{Schindler.)
RIBAD or RIEP
Long. 57° 19' (
A village in tl
name on the rt ^
As it is watei
a considerable (
ries. Supplies ;tttti 1 i..,
The village contains 150 houses, and has a batn, awias^^^HPi*good
water-supply. The principal water-course rises in the hills 12 miles north
of the village, near the grave of Sultan Saiyid Quraish. A quantity of
white pepper is grown here.— {Schindler.)
RICH—
A populous village, 15 miles from Birjand, on the road to Kirman,
situated in a tangl, enclosed by hills, fertile and well cultivated.— {Mohi-
ud-Din.)
RlG-I-’AMRANl—
A sandy plain in Khorasan, dividing the district of Kain from Khaf.—
{Bellew.)
RlG-I-PANJ ANGUSHT—
A part of the Lut, or desert, between Kirman, and Khorasan, remark
able for the number of peaked eminences in it. It is near the Kirman
edge of the desert. A remarkable elevation, called Dau Dauvanak (from
the custom of travellers running races to its summit) is passed in travers
ing this part of the Lut.— {Khanikoff.)
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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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