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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎376r] (776/820)

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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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valley of the Kashaf Rud river. There are no habitations here ; but the
river-bed affords ample fodder, fuel, and water ; and in the hills around
there is excellent grazing for camels.— (MacGregor.)
URKAN—
A village in Kurdish Khorasan, 8 miles south-west from Bujnurd, on
a by-road to Shuhan (or Shaughan).—(MacGregor.)
URZEH-I-BALA—
A small village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, 2 miles north of
Kariz. Population, 25 Barbari families—1305.)
URZEH-I-PAlN—
A small village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, a short distance to
the east of Sadabad and north-east of Kariz. It is newly populated with
25 families of Hazaras.— (Sykes, 1905.)
USTA—
A hill village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan on the Shahr-i-Nau
Khaf road, 14 miles south-east of Shahr-i-Nau.
It is inhabited by some 110 families of different
origin,
divided as fol-
lows:—
Heratis .. .. ••
15
families.
Descendants of Khwaja ‘Abdullah Avarl of Herat
• •
20
99
Timfirxs .. •• •»
• •
20
99
Saiyids
• •
4
99
Descendants of Shaikh Ahmad of Jam ..
• •
4
99
Bakharzxs
••
47
99
The entire population are Sunnis.
Produce, 1,650 kharwdrs of grain. Sheep and goats
2 , 000 .
Mdlrdt, 200 tumdns in cash and 45 kharudrs grain.
Water-supply from hills to the west. The village contains two tombs of
grandsons of Shaikh Ahmad of Jam.—(Sty&es, 1905.)
UStJABAD—
See Yusufabad.
UTIR KUH or UTIR-I-KUH—
A hill in Khorasan, south of the road from Shahrud to Turshiz, and 35
miles from the former town.— (Taylor.)

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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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