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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎382v] (789/820)

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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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738
YAM—YAM
The Yamflts treat their Khwdjas or Saiyids with great respect, and
should they by any chance happen to raid the
Yamut respect for Saiyids. - * 1 1 1 : — •*--
buuuiu. y vj r jl ^
x - - sheep or camels belonging to the latter they
always restore them to the owners on finding out their mistake, and make
good any losses from their own property. The fact that the Turkomans
should show such respect to their Khwdjas or Saiyids is a curious one. It
emanates apparently from dread, as stories are told of the calamities that
have overtaken men who had stolen Khicdjas 1 property and refused to
return it, and had thus incurred the wrath or curse of the owners.
Yamut religiousness,
utmost regularity.
The Yamuts profess to be religiously inclined,
and most of them say their prayers with the
Yamfit hospitality.
The Yamhts, so far as I can gather, have a
high respect for the bonds of hospitality,
however much they may rob abroad, and I
believe it would be foreign to their nature to harm, in any way, a
stranger within their doors. ^
They are said to be upright in their dealings. Armenians and other
^ . • fVl ir dealers give them large advances for felts, skins
Yakuts upright ,n their “ ^ ^ t(> J deliv6red lateI on , and
they never attempt to cheat them in any way; albeit that the former ard
quite at their mercy. , . , ,
The Ja’afarbal are large camel, sheep and cattle-owners. The sheep and word
T „,,„ in sheep, cattle, all goto Russia, and also some cattle. Camels
buffaloes and wool. and also buffaloes are bought, it is said, by Turl s
from Asarbaijan, who come here every year to purchase them.
Between the Guklan country and the Caspian Sea the Yamut settlements
t are situated as follows:—
O, y"urkom^ Beginning from the east-
( 1 ) first come the Igdar, next to the Guklans;
then the Kan Yukhmaz; , 0 ,
npxt the Kuiuk, north of Fidarisk, with Tatar and Salaq, 2 and
3 miles respectively to the west;
and after them the Kuchak, . . .
the DiajI section lies farther to the west again, with Badrak next
to it;
then Daz;
next Yilghai;
next Ateh Bal;
and then Ja’afarbai.
The numbers and powers of the lamuis
appear to me to, have been considerably over
estimated.
( 2 )
(3)
(4)
( 5 )
( 6 )
( 7 )
( 8 )
(9)
Numbers of Yamut Turk
omans.
Note.— Persian Yamuts cannot cross into Russian territory without a passport but
may not take cattle with them even when furnished with a passport, for w i
tcrans is charged.— (Picot.)

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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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