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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎349r] (718/820)

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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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SHAMSABAD (No. 2)—
A village 15 miles from Meshed, 2 miles west of Tus, inhabited by
Shadillu Kurds.— (Schindler.)
SHAMSABAD (No. 3)—
A village containing 50 families, in the Nishaphr valley in Khorasan
between Ishqabal a id Naqab.— (H. M. Temple.)
SHAMSABAD-KAMARABAD—
A village, 1 mile east-by-south of Kumisdan, on the road to Nishaptir
in Khoiasan.— (Napier.)
SHAMSHlRBUR,
See Tang-i-Shamshirbur.
SHAMSKHAN or SHAMSEH KHAN (No. 1) (River)—
A river in northern Khoiasan, which flows north by the village of KhusrQ
in Darreh Gaz to the Aidik—(MacGregor.)
SHAMSKHAN or SHAMSEH KHAN (No. 2) (Village) —
A village in the Daneh Gaz district in Khorasan, between Igdallq and
Chaoushll, being 19 miles from the former and 16 miles from the latter.
The L village of Zangalanlu is said to be about a farsakh higher up the
stream, which is said to take its rise, like the Lain stream, in the Hazar
Masjid hill.
Zangalanlu is the name of a Kurd tribe, and Shamskhan contains
some 20 families of them, who own 40 cattle and 600 sheep and goats.
They are entirely prohibited though, by the Russians, from touching
the water of the stream, and the village water-supply depends on a small
spring.
Under the boundary settlement enected by the late Sahib Ikhtiar,
Shamskhan is entitled to water sufficient for the irrigation of 3 khar-
udrs of seed, and Zangalanlu to that of 5 kharwdrs, but the Russians,
they say, prevent them by main force from cultivating even to that
extent.—(C. E. Yate, 1894.)
SHANDIZ (No. 1) (District)—
The Shandiz sub-division is situated between Kahu, Mian Vilaiat
Jagharq and Garahna (Nishapur) in north-east Khoiasan.
It is one of the best hill sanitaria near Meshed and contains the follow
ing villages :—
1. Shandiz, a large village containing numerous gardens and about
600 houses.
2. Nughundur, or Nughandar, a large village of 300 houses which
is the property of the Persian Government.
3. Khadar, or Khavar.
4. Gurakhk, or Gurakh, containing 200 houses.
5. Hasanabad.
6. Zushk.

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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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