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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [366r] (756/820)
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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TAT—TEJ
705
tAtarI—
A defile in the Darreh Gaz qandt, with a village of the same name at its
eastern extremity. Leaving the village of Kaleh Yusuf Khan, on the border
of Radkan and Kuchan, the road enters this defile, and follows it north
east for 4 miles. The defile is commanded all along, but the hills are
easy and of no great height. Guns have been taken through it. On
reaching the village of Tatari, the defile opens, and there is a good stretch
of cultivation, £ mile wide and 2 or 3 miles in length.— (Napier.)
TAUSHAN KIR—
A halting-place on the southern bank of the Atrak river, a few miles
from Sangar Tappeh in the Astaral ad district.— (C. E. Yate.)
TAVAR (No. 1)— Lat. 37° 18' 27"; Long. 56° 53' 45"; Elev. 4,640'—
(Lemm).
A village in Khorasaai in the district of Bujnfird.— (Napier, 1876.)
TAVAR (No. 2)—
A military post in Khoiasan, 10£ miles from Mazdaran, on the road to
Sarakhs. It lies on the north bank of the Kashaf Rfid.— (Napier.)
TAVARI—
See Tabarik (No. 2).
TAVlL (No. 1) (River)—
A stream in northern Khoraian, flowing from Darreh Gaz westward
to the Kucha n valley. It is the most distant feeder or source of the
Atrak river.— (Napier.)
TAVIL (No. 2) (Village)—
A small hamlet in Kurdish Khora an, 24 miles from Kfichan, on the
road to Darreh Gaz. It contains 10 houses of Kaivanlu Kurds, and is situat
ed in a bleak, treeless, barren valley or glen, enclosed by a lofty, serrab d
ri dge. —( N apier.)
TAZAR—
A village of 20 houses in the Sankhas groups of villages south-west of
Bujnurd. It lies on the Shaughan river.— (Schindler.)
It is situated between Chehar Burj (the last village of the Isfarain dis
trict) and Sankhas, being 16 miles from the former and 3 miles from tho
latter.— (C. E. Yate.)
TAZRl—
A village in the Astarabad district, situated in the apex between the
Tapal range and the Shantu, amidst the ramifications of the lower spurs.
— (Lovett.)
TEJEN (River)—
The continuation of the Hari Rud river (q.v.) north from Pul-i-Khatun
is so called. From a point nearly due east of Kafir Kaleh, the Hari Rud and
its continuation, the Tejen, form the boundary between Persia and Trans-
caspia. The Tejen flows past Daulatabad and to the east of Sarakhs.
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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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