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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [365v] (753/820)
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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701
TAR—TAT
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village of the Isfarain district) and Sankhas, being 16 miles from the former
and 3 miles from the latter.— (G. E. Yate.)
TARlJ orTARIZ—Lat. 33° 59' 35"; Long. 57° 10' W—{Lentz).
A village in Khorasan, 49 miles from Tabas, on the road to Tim. There
is a serai here, with good water and some supphes.— {MacGregor.)
TARKHAN or TARKHAN BEG—
A small village, 14 J miles from Meshed, within the walls of Ths.— {Schindler.)
TARKHARAN—
A valley or plain lying between Persian Bajglran and Shirvan on the
road to Bujnurd, forming one of the sub-divisions of the Kuchan district.
The plain runs about east and west, has a good stream of water, and is high
ly cultivated.
" It contains 32 villages and 1,000 famihes of Kurds, and has 2,000
kharudrs of grain.— {MacLean.)
TARSA BALA—
A village containing 40 families, on the right bank of the stream drain
ing to Sangar, in the Kuhsar sub-division of Astarabad.— {MacLean.)
TARSA PAIN—
A village containing 25 families, on the right bank of the stream drain
ing to Sangar in the Kuhsar sub-division of Astarabad.— {MacLean.)
TARSHISHt— _ _ ^ x
A village in the Tun buluk of the Tabas district of Khorasan.— {Bellew.)
TASK (“ Stone ” in Turk!) or TASK ROB AT— Lat. 36° 34' 12"; Long.
54° 41' 20" — {Lemm) ; Elev. 1,100'—{Lovett).
A village in Khojasan, on the road from Skahihd to Asia - !a‘ ad, ano about
20 miles from the former town. It contains about 250 houses, and is situat
ed high up in the mountain of Shah Kuh, 1 mile from the junction of the
roads leading from Asta i al ad to Shahmd,—one by Ziarat, the other Jjy
the Q azluq pass. There is a Persian Telegraph Office here. It pays tumdns
300 in revenue. Ifc is the chi 1 f place of the Shahkuh-u-Savar district.
Coal is found in considerable quantities in the vicinity of Tash; and a
mine has been worked and the coal carried to Gaz, to supply the Russian
steamers. The working of the mine ceased with the demand, the steamers
being supplied from some rearer source, or using Baku oil (petroleum).—
(Napier ; Watson; Astamal Trade Report, 1909.)
TASH SANG— Elev. 2,750'.
A ndld at the foot of the Mazdaran {q.v.) pass on the Sarakhs side.
The road is quite easy all the way from here to Persian Sarakhs.—
{MacLean.)
TATAR
A section of the Kujuk sub-division of the Shari branch of Yamht Turko
mans. These are further sub-divided into —
1. Sikarll.
2. Akmishl!
3. PatakI
{Thomson \ C. E. Yate.)
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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