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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎345r] (710/820)

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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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SHA—SHA
663
SHAHRAH—
A village in the Mahvilat sub-division of the Turbat-i-Haidari district
of Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
SHAHRAIN or SHAHRAKHT—
^ A small village in the Rashiin sub-division of the Sabzav ar district in
Khorasan. It has only a few families. Water from a qandt.—lMaula
Bakhsh .)
SHAHRAKHT—
See Chahrakhts.
SHAHR-I-BILQlS— Elev. 3,800'.
An ’Arab town, formerly called Isfarain, and the capital of the Isfarain
district, now in ruins, situated at 4 miles from Mlanabad, the chief village
cf the district.
The rums, called locally the Shahr-i-Bilcjis, consist of two parts, the
citadel and the city. The citadel is 320 yards in length and 150 in breadth
measured inside, and some 400 yards in length measured outside, and
stands on a mound or rampart some 20 or 30 feet above the plain, and sur
rounded by high, mud walls. To the north-east of this citadel lie’the walls
of the ancient city of Isfarain, some 2 or 3 miles in circumference
These have been much washed away, but are still 10 or 12 feet thick in places*.
The ground inside the walls has been a good deal ploughed up and levelled,
but many mounds still remain, and many coins and relics are said to be
found in them.
To the south of Shahr-i-Bilqis there is an ulavg or marsh affording good
pasturage, the springs in which give rise to a stream that waters five
villages on the southern side of the valley.
The Jama Masjid buildings in the centre of the old city existed within
the memory of the present generation, and they have only been destroyed of
late years by people carrying off the bricks. One coin found in the ruins that
we saw also had the word Isfarain clearly marked on it. It is difficult to
ascertain how long the city has been deserted, but, according to local
tradition, it was destroyed by Afghans under Mumin Khan, presumably in
the invasion of 1731. Whenever it was, the walnut trees have now entirely
disappeared, and Isfarain stands a deserted heap of low mounds, stones and
broken bricks, out in the open plain—(O. E. Yate, 1897.)
SHAHR-I-NAU Lat. 35° 8' 25"; Long. 59° 56' 30"— (£h John.)
The principal village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, on the road
from Turbat-i-Haidari to Herat, and about 70 miles east-sou’-east of the
former place. 450 houses. It is increasing in size, as thj country round
is becoming more cultivated.
It is the second stage from Turbat-i-Haidari on the Meshed-Herat DdJe
line, and three Turkoman savdrs are stationed there.
The population consists of Bakharzis and Shaikh Ansari ’Arabs. The
latter, originally from Medinab, settled in Bakharz some 700 years ago.
During the last seven years the surrounding district has suffere 1 heavily

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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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