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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎363r] (748/820)

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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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Sabzawar, including the upper part of the Juvain plain and the spurs of the
Jaghatai hills. Its population and productions are quite disproportionate
to its extent. There are nine principal villages ' r numbering 2,000 families
of Baiats. Cotton and grain crops are produced. Irrigation is from
artificial streams. The estimated revenue is 3,000 tumtins \ the estimated
population 8,000.—(iVapfer.)
(For full description see article on Nishaphr .)—{Schindler.)
TAGHAN KUH (No. 2) (Mountain)—
The eastern extension of the Jaghatai or Juvain range, separating the
Nishapur district from that of Sabzawar. It has given a name to a sub-
district of Nishapiir, whose villages lie principally on its northern slopes.
The high road from Nishapur to Sabzawar crosses the southern spurs
of the range by way of the Shurab hills and the Dehaneh-i-Sanglidar. The
range ends a few miles south of Shurab in the salt desert, and its principal
peaks are the Kaleh Jiq (5,160'), Taghan (5,980') and the conical Jisti
(6,570').— (Schindler.)
TAGlUSH—
A well cultivated valley in Khorasan, about 17 miles north-west of the
town of Birjand.— (MacGregor.)
tAhirAbAd—
A small village of 10 houses, in the Birjumand sub-district of Shahitid
Bustam, 27 miles south of Miandasht, with a fine subterranean canal.
(Schindler.)
TAHT-I-JULGAH or TAHT JULGAH-I-TAGHAN KGH—
A huluk of the NIshapfir district of Khorasan, containing 34 villages and
some hamlets. It is a tract of level plain south of the Taghan Kuh
buluk and of the town of Nishapur, touching Sabzawar to the west.
The soil is saline, but fertile ; and through it the Kal Shur ravine drains
west to the desert of Kashan. Where irrigated by kdriz it yields good
crops of cotton and grain. The villagers are mixed Turks and Ajams, with
some few families of Kurds. They number about 1,000 families, or *4,000
souls.— (Bellew; Napier.)
(For full description see article on Nishapur.)
TAIBAD or TAIABAD—
A village on the eastern frontier of Khorasan, situated at the foot of
the northern slope of the Kuh-i-Sang-i-Dukhtar, about 4 miles south
of Karlz and 20 north of Qarat.
The village consists of about 700 houses and some 2,500 inhabitants,
nearly all Sunnis, who possess 600 cattle, 5,000 sheep and goats and 100 horses!
There is a large amount of cultivation in the neighbourhood, and the annual
production of wheat and barley in ordinary years (f wheat, £ barley),
amounts to about 58,500 Indian maunds. Water rood and^nlentiful There
is a fine masjid here. F '

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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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