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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [368r] (760/820)
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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A post on the border of the district of Jam, north-east Khorasan, for
its protection against Afghans and Turkomans. It is a fine brick caravan
serai on the western (Persian) bank of the Han Itud. It is situated on the
old road, along which the traffic between Bokhara and Persia was carried
on, and is still in a habitable condition. During the Turkoman raids it was
used as an outpost, 20 Hazara horsemen being stationed here to bring the
news to Muhsinabad whenever the Turkomans were expected. There was
also a look-out post in the bed of the Hari Rud close to the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
Afghans of Kuhsan live here and till the land in the bed of the stream.
(Stewa,rt ; Napier.)
Tuman Aqa is situated on the left bank of the Hari Rud, and is now
in Persian occupation and undisputed Persian territory, as the river Hari
Rud forms the boundary between Afghanistan and Persia below the point
where the Kal-i-Kalleh joins it.— (Mania Bakhsh.)
TtJN (No. 1) (District)—
A buluk of the Tabas district.
The valley of Tun could furnish supplies for a considerable force for any
length of time, as there is a very large expanse of cidtivation, and the
population is by no means great. Besides silk, of which large quantities are
made, Tun produces very fine tobacco and a great deal of opium, nearly
all of which is exported. It has no manufactures of any value ; though
the silk is worked up into inferior articles of attire. The people of the dun
valley are extremely quRt and peaceable; and though they generally
have arms in their houses, none are ever seen outside.
The revenue of the Tun sub-division of labas is iun.dns 13,500 per
annum. The sub-division is in charge of a Deputy-Governor appointed
by the Governor of Tabas.— (Mania Bakhsh.)
TGN (No. 2) (Mountain)—
This range, which Colonel MacGregor calls the dun range of mountains,
he considers a most important one, considering the physical geography of
Persia. He considers that it is connected with a rai ge that runs to the south
of Turshiz westward, and which itself is a continuation of the drainage
system of Persia. It runs in a direction north-west and south-east to the
south of Bijistan, west of Cunabad and Kain a d cast of dun, end has con
siderable elevation. The dun range from near the Kalat pass Ihrows off an
important spur to the east towards K1 af, after j ascmg the longitude of which
place it turns north and runs between the two Turbats, and has thence
been termed the Turbat range ; and then it crosses the road between
Meshed and Turbat-i-Haidari.—(i^em'er ; Awmsdew; AfacGregror.)
TtfN (No. 3) (Town)— Lat. 34° 0' 27"; Long. 58° 6' 45"; Elev. 1,250'—
(Lentz).
A town of KhorStsan, 150 miles south of Nishapur. It is surrounded by
a wall 20 feet high, raised on a rampart of mud 30 feet thick and
40 feet high, and by a ditch which must have been 40 feet deep and
50 feet broad, but which, when visited by Colonel MacGregor in 1875,
had been filled up and cultivated. The defences, too, were in so ruinous
a condition as to be only a protection from thieves. There are three gates
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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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