'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [327r] (672/820)
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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ROB—ROB
627
The robat is a low, stone-vaulted structure at the junction of two_roads :
one the main road leading to Darrud, and the other a path to Ivhar, both
on the Nishapur side of the range. The roof of the robat is the only level
spot to pitch a tent on. The hills are bare and stony all round.
Water good. Supplies procurable from a shop in the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.—
(C. E. Yate.)
ROBAT-I-PUL-I-ABRISHAM or ABRlSHAMl—
A burnt-brick
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in Khorasan, 21 miles west of Sharifabad, on
the road to Shahrud. It is on the banks of the Kaleh-i-Mura near the upper
Pul-i-Abrisham. It has no date or inscription, but is evidently of an
ancient time. The water is bad, that of the river being quite undrink
able. There is a marsh here containing water, which, though very nasty,
is quite drinkable. By sending to a spring 2 miles off, water can be obtain
ed that is only slightly brackish.—(Steward) See Pul-i-Abrisham.
ROBAT-I-QILI—
An old
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
on the road between Gur'gan and Meshed, about
2 miles from the village Kill in the Sankhas bululc, south-west of Bujnurd 1 ,
—{Schindler.) Probably both are spelt the same way.
ROBAT-I-QUZLUQ— Elev. 4,800'.
A small serai, on the Quzluq pass, between Astarabad and Shah Rud.—-
{Lovett.) See Quzluq.
ROBAT-I-SAFlD (No. 1)—Lat. 35° 46' 0"; Long. 59° 21' 0" ; Elev. 5,825'
— {Na'pier).
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
on the road from Turbat-i-Haidari to Meshed, 43 miles
from the former place. It is situated in a small valley about 1£ miles long
and 1 mile wide to the north of the Muhammad Mirza pass. About I
mile from the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
is the village of Baz-i-Hur {q.v.). The valley
is exceedingly rich in grazing.— {G. Wanliss, August 1903.)
ROBAT-I-SAFlD (No. 2)—
A
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
in a plain of the same name in Astarabad, to the left of
the road between Tash and the Quzluq Kutal, on the Shahrud and Astara
bad Toad.—{Napier.)
ROBAT-I-SAIYID—
A stage in Khorasan, 17| miles from Nishapur, on the road to Turshiz.—
{MacGregor.)
ROBAT-I-SAMANGlN-.
A stage on the Meshed-Turbat-i-Shaikh Jam road, 32 miles north-west
of the latter place.—(P. M. Sykes, 1909.)
ROBAT-I-SANG—
A ruined
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, 20| miles from Turbat-i-Haidari, on the road
to Meshed, and situated at the northern end of the Julgah Rukh valley^
4 K 2
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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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