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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎325v] (669/820)

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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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RIZ-ROB
RIZAN or RIZVlN or REHliN— Lat. 36° 32' 0"; Long. 59° 41' O'—
(Napier).
A village in Khorasan, 12 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kalat-i-
Nadirl. It is situated most picturesquely on both sides and at the head
of a small valley, bounded by round, bare hills to the summit of which
its vineyards reach. The road to the camping-ground turns off across
the ndld through the villages, and the best place to go to is Andarukh,
2 miles farther on along the high-level road to east of the village.
The village is inhabited by 80 families of Persians, who own 300 cattle
and 1,000 sheep and goats. The normal annual production of wheat and
barley is 800 Indian maunds. One-third of the village belongs to the shrine
at Meshed, and the remaining two-thirds is the jagir (Tiul) of Khusru Mirza,
who lives in Meshed and recovers 200 tumdns in cash and 40 kharudrs, of
grain from the village yearly.—(Orano#<%, 1894; Yate, 1897 ; Smyth 1906.)
RIZVlA—
A village in Khorasan, 1 mile north-west of Zibad, in the Gunabad
district, on the road to Bijistan. It is a poor place, containing but five
houses.—( Rozario.)
ROBAT (No. 1)—
A village in northern Khorasan, 24 miles from Jajarm, on the road to
Shahrud. It has 80 houses. Supplies and water are plentiful.— (Napier.)
ROBAT (No. 2)—
A halting-place in Khorasan, 16 miles from Bushruieh, on the road to
Tun. There is an excellent serai here, a few supplies, and good water
from a well | mile off.— (MacGregor.)
ROBAT (No. 3)—
A village in the Turbat huluk of the Turbat-i-Haidari district of Khora
san.— (Bellew.)
ROBAT (No. 4)—
A newly built brick serai in Khorasan, between Turbat-i-Haidari and
Asadabad, about 1£ miles south of the latter. It is situated in the Rukh
valley, the surface around being white with salines.— (Bellew.)
ROBAT (No. 5.1— Lat. 37° 53' 0"; Long. 57° 25' 0".
A village in northern Khorasan, in the valley of the Shirin Chai.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
ROBAT (No. 6)—
A small village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, about 7 miles
north-west of Shahr-i-Nau. It is inhabited by 30 families of Bakhtiaris.
— (Sykes, 1905.)
ROB ATI— Elev. about 5,000'.
A small village, in Khorasan on the direct road from Sabzawar to the
Ma'dan (turquoise mines), 33 miles from the town of Sabzawar, 10 miles

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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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