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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎385r] (794/820)

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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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stretching along the Russian frontier from Sarani on the east to Gifan on
the west, and thence south down the Bujnurd border. The village now
contains 40 families of Kurds from Firuzeh, to make room for whom the
former residents were turned out and sent elsewhere.—(C. E. Yate, 1894.)
YANGl KALEH (No. 3)—
A village in Khorasan, on the road from Meshed to Kalat-i-Nadiri by
Qaratigan. The population consists of 120 families of Kurds, who own
300 cattle and 5,000 sheep and goats. The normal annual production of
wheat and barley amounts to 6,400 and 1,600 Indian maunds, respectively.
There is a good supply of water from the Qaratigan river.— (Oranoffsky,
1894.)
YANGl KALEH (No. 4)—
A small village, situated in the eastern corner of the Bujnurd valley in
Khorasan .—(Maula Bakhsh.)
YANGl KALEH (No. 5) (Stream)—
See Kalat Chal.
YANGl MAHALLEH—
A village in the west of Astarabad, inhabited chiefly by Hazara immigrants
of an ancient date.— (Napier.)
YANI—
See Yam.
YANKAK—
The frontier or most westerly obd (settlement) of Guklan lurkomans,
belonging to Karadish Khan, the head of the \ankak section of the
Gbklans. It lies on the left bank of the Gurgan, about a mile to the east of
a large mound called Yas Tappeh (q-v.).
The difference between the northern and southern banks of the Gurgan
is very marked here at Yankak. The former looks bare, barren and dry,
whereas the latter is of excellent soil covered throughout wuth grass and
low reeds, and requiring nothing but peace and population for its pros-
perity. The numbers of Tappehs about show how thickly populated it
was in ancient times, and the wooded slopes of the hills to the south make
the scene a pretty one.
The tall tower of the Gumbad-i-Kabus (?.t;.) stands out very plainly west-
south-west from Yankak, and the Yamut obd of Igdaris said to be only
1 farsakh distant, but they are going to move elsewhere shortly.
The climate at Yankak at this season of the year (November) is very
^Xhe Yflnkak section of Guklan Turkomans contains about 100 families,
and is sub-divided into the following sub sections :
Kavallii.
Uch Kavallu.
Taghailan.— (C.E. Yate> 1894.)
Yankak.
Sarij a.
Daira Agri.

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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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