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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [328r] (674/820)
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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ROBAT-I-TAJIR—
A small serai in the Shahrud district, situated in a defile called the De.
haneh-i Tash or the Tash pass, vide Tash (village), through which the Duab
river, formed by the junction of the Tash s* ream with that flowing west
from the Chilchillan pass, flows. MacGregor calls this place “ Robat
Marghzar.”— (Lovett ; MacGregor.)
ROBA T-I-ZANG-I-8HAH— Lat. 35° 9' 0"; Long. 57° 52' 0" ; Elev. 3,000'
— (Stewart.)
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Yazd to Meshed, and 70 miles
north-east of Shirkhisht. It contains 17 houses, and a large, good cara
vanserai, built in 1863, where supplies in small quantities are obtain
able. The water is salt ; but there is a spring of sweet water 1 farsakh (about
3£ miles) to the south-east. There is no cultivation, beyond a small
amount of lucerne grass known as yunja, which is given to horses
(Stewart ; Gill.)
RUB YlH—
A fine mountain track in Khoia an, in the district called Ha;ar Jarib
It has a nomad population of 500 tents of Shadillu Kurds.—(MacGregor.)
RUCHl—
A village in Khoiasan, lying at the foot o c the hills to the west of the
road from Kakh to Bijistan, at about 5 miles from the village of Zitad
—(Betlew.)
JdUDBAR (River)—
A river in Kurdish Khorasan, which rises near the Allaim Akbar
range and flows in a general north-easterly direction into the Trans-Cas*
pian depression.
It is formed by two rivers—the Rushkai and the Maiaf.
The Rushkai has its source in the northern slopes of the Khambriak Dagh
. at the head of an extremely rocky and wooded ravine. It at first
flows at the bottom of that range and then along the Yaii Sark range in a
north-westerly direction, when it turns north and then east to the village
of Rushkai. From Rushkai it flows north-east to the Sankiz valley
where it turns north-west and continues in that direction till its junction
with the Maiaf From its source to its junction with the Sankiz The
vahey of the Rushkai is a wild ravine, encumbered with rocks, the hills
enclosing it on either side being covered with juniper trees to their very
summits. It is only when the village of Rushkai is reached that the
valley opens out somewhat and begins to be cultivated.
The Saakiz flows into the Rushkai from the right and joins the latter
3 miles below the village of Sankiz. The former river has its rise in the
Hazat Masjid. range, and its general direction is north-west • the valley
down winch it flows is wide, and impassable for pack animals. Below
the village of ban hi z it opens out to a breadth of about 100 yards
and cultivation begins. The valley of the Rushkai is about 150 yards
broad from the junction of the river of that name and the Sankiz till their
united waters join the Maiaf, and is cultivated in places.
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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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