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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎374v] (773/820)

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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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722
TUR—TUR
TURUD (No. 2) (District)—
A sub-district of Shahmd-Bustam, lying to the south of ShahrSd and
extending to the great Kolvit . It has seven villages, Turud, Mu allaman,
Rishm, Husinan, Satva, Paistan, Kuhsar, and a population of about 1,000.
This district is entirely desert, and the villages are poor oases with little
water.— [Schindler.)
TURUN—
See Turan.
TURUQ— Lat. 36° 12' 21" (Lentz) \ Long. 59° 37' 0" (St. John)', Elev.
2,860' (Schindler.)
A walled village in Khorasan of 500 houses, about six miles south of
Meshed. It is protected by numerous towers and surrounded by abun
dant cultivation, well watered by four watercourses. One of these water
courses is the Chashmeh-i-Gilas, which runs through the town of Mesfced;
the second is the stream from the Band-i-Turuq coming from the moun
tains lying to the south-west; the third is the Ab-i-Kuh, which comes from
Gulistan; the fourth comes from the Chashmeh Sar on the slopes of the
mountains to the south. Turuq has a masjid and a good public bath,
the property of the great shrine at Meshed. The shrine receives from
Turuq a yearly rental of 12,000 Tumdns cash, 3,000 kharudrs corn and 3,00()
kharwdrs straw. Two thousand kharwdrs of corn are sown here annually.
The Turuq village lies at some distance from the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). to the
east. The camping-ground is by the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). on the roadside. .
The caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). is composed of two enclosures, called summer and
winter enclosures; the latter, built by Shah Sulaiman Safavi in 1669 A.D.,
is 48 zar’s square, and has rooms all round the sides with stables at each
corner. The outer enclosure, built in 1861, has only open arches with re
cesses for sleeping in in the hot weather.
A mile to the south of this caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). is a curious conical mound known
as Tappeh-i-Nadiri. The hill is some 550 paces in circumference round
the base, and 100 feet or more in height, a most unusual height for an
artificial mound in this country.
The mound has been dug into in various places, and the whole of the soil
is full of bones and pottery from top to bottom. There are no bricks in
it, but apparently round stones were used in the buildings of which it was
formerly composed. It looks as if it were of great age.— (C. E. late, 1897 ;
Schindler.)
TURUQBEH— Lat. 36° 18' 54"; Long. 59° 20' 0"—(Lentz).
Also called Turqbeh, Turguva, Turguvah. All these names are corruptions
of Turq Oba which means Turk settlement.
A village in Khorasan, about 12 miles from Meshed, on the road thence
to Nishapur. It contains about 600 houses, situated in the midst of gardens
and orchards, in which are grown the cherry, filbert, walnut, mulberry,
willow and poplars. The road winds through the midst of plantations for
about half a mile. •

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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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