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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎329v] (677/820)

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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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632
RUD-RUK
A
RlTD-I-SHOR—
A stream of salt water flowing towards the Kavlr of BiiWan ^4.
Miandeh (the last village of tfe Mahvilat
« a ‘ d f" district) and Amram (the last village of the Tabas district) being
about 8 miles from the former and about 12 miles from the latter The
ud ' 1 ' Shur lia T s pre^P^ous banks, and is fordable only at one place in tin-
dry season. In the rainy season it is impassable. ^
T he stream of water at the end of April was about 20 feet wide and
about 6 inches deep, and it took about three quarters of an hour (in
the dry season) to get a caravan across.--(Mawfo Bakhsh ) '
RUD-I-SHURAB—
A good-sized stream running through a deep ravine near the village of
Shurab, about 45 miles east of Sabzawar, Khorasan.—(ifazonb )
RUD-I-TURAS—
A stream in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, 5 miles east of Jagbatai-
-r” •" *- j —■—
RUD-I-USHTURAN—
™ terc ™ rs ' in KhfSsan, generally dry, about 5 miles from Cliah-i
Sagak (on the Perso-Afghan frontier) towards Duruh.— (ftjffew 1
ROD KHVAR—
A village in the Turbat-i-Haidaii district of Khoiasan, on the road be-
tween Rhaf and Turbat-l-Haidari, about 42 miles from the former and 29
im caHle d%,i,l 0 r,° nS,StS °J 50 h0U8 ‘“ S an<1 ^inhabitants, and possesses
100 cattle and 500 sheep and goats. The annual production of wheat and
ailey m ordinary years (| wheat, 1 barley) is about 900 Indian maunds
Water-supply from a la„z.-(C. Wanliss, August 1903)
RtfH—
pun-^fe^) Kh0r5san ’ ° n the of the f™m Dar.Qd to Nisha-
RfJI KHAF—
See Khaf.
RUl SANG—
A Vllla 8 e ln the Bijistan buluk of the Tabas district of Khoiasan.—(Be^ew.)
RUKHl— ,
A village in Khorasan, lying in a valley surrounded by hills on the road
irom Sa^zawar to the turquoise mines at Ma’dan.—
RUKNABAD (Qanat)—
KhorasLi° f It irH^atf^tl Y ^ ^ ak n-ud-Dauleh, Governor-General of
Ark and S^r ab C t 6 Iar f t f ^^^tside Meshed, situated between
e Ark and iSanab Gates, and the garden and buildings of the citadel
r 1,110 ““ J '“ rt is end0W5d shrina—-

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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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