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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [362v] (747/820)
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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698
TAB—TAG
53 and the lowest 31°. The air as a rule was cloudy or hazy, and oranges
were hanging on many of the trees. On the surrounding hills only a few
miles off the weather was exceptionally severe, and several flocks of sheep
caught in the snow were totally destroyed. It is said that all the passes
into the plain were for a few days quite impracticable, and that such
a severe winter had not been experienced for many years.— (Vaughan, 1890.)
TABAS (No. 5) (Village)—Elev. 4,800'— (Yate).
Principal place of the Tabas buluk of the Sabzawar district. It lies
14 miles north of Sabzawar on the northern slopes of the Jaghatai moun
tain, and has about 100 houses.— (Schindler.)
TABASHlR—
A village in Khorasan, about 20 miles west of Meshed. It is described
as a beautiful village. High on a mountain to the right is a fort, where
the villagers take refuge when an enemy appears.— (Eastwick).
TABAS-l-KUCHAK (Kirman)—
A halting-place, 54 miles from Kirman, on the road thence to Tabas—
(Kinnier.)
TAGlU chikhan—
A village, with water and supplies, in Khorasan, 42 miles east of Kaln,
on the road to Anardarra (Afghanistan) via Gulvardeh.— (MacGregor.)
TAGHlB—
A large village in Khorasan, between Dustabad and Afriz, to the left of
the road from Tun to BIrjand. "The village contains about 70 families
at present, and its revenue is as follows :— (MacGregor.)
T. K. S.
Land revenue .. .. . .. .. 62 0 0
Family tax .. .. .. .. 10 0 0
Sheep tax .. .. .. .. 40 0 0
TotsA Tumdns ..112 0 0
TAGHlB-I-KHALAF-
(Maula Bakhsh.)
A group of 3 villages, situated between Durukhsh and Hind Valan in
Khorasan. The people are Arabs, ’Ajams and Sunnis. Total population
70 families. There are altogether 6 kdrlzes, producing 320 kharwdrs of
grain annually .—('Abbas 'All, 1907.)
TAGHAN—
A peak of the Taghan Kuh range (q.v.) with an elevation of 5,980 feet.—
{Schindler.)
TAGHAN KUH (No. 1) (District)—
A buluk of the Nishapur district of Khorasan. It is a barren tract of
mountain and plain, stretching from Bar-i-Ma’dan to the bordeis of
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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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