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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [386v] (797/820)
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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YUN-YUZ
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YtTNISTlN—
A village of the Kalateh-i-’Arab-u-’Ajam (q.v.). The Government lists
give this as Hunistan.— (Schindler.)
YGNSl Lat. 34° 48' 0"; Long. 58° 29' 0"; Elev. 2,900''—(TTaZA:er).
A village in Khorasan, on the road between r Jhn and Turbat-i-Haidari,
25 miles from Bijistan. In 1872 it was desciibed as an insignificant village,
very dilapidated and miserable looking, comprising a collection of some 250
huts round a central fort. It possesses, however, a commodious serai of
- baked bricks. It stands on a small river flowing westward into the desert,
and marking the boundary between the districts of labas and Turbat-i-
Haidari There are no gardens; and a singular absence of trees gives the
place a very forlorn look. This village was almost depopulated by the
‘ famine of 1871. There is a masonry bridge here over the stream above-
mentioned. It is in the Bijistan sub-division of the Tabes district. Water-
supply bad. Supplies very scarce.— (H. D. Napier ; Baggaley, 1909.)
YCttlQ—
' j A village of the Sunnikhaneh sub-division of the Kahi district of Khora
san.— (Bellew.)
Y0SUFABAD (No. 1)—
A village of 10 houses in the Tabas sub-district of Sabzawar, 18 miles
north-west of Tabas.——(ScArwdfer).
YUSUFABAD (No. 2) on USTJABAD—
A village 11 miles from new Kuchan and 2 miles from old Kuchan, in the
Kuchan district of Khorasan. Kurdi is the language of the common people.
It is a small village of about 50 huts, watered by a spring and qanats.—
(H. M. Temple.)
YUSUF ABAD (No. 3)—
A village containing 50 families, to the south-west of Rashidabad, at
a little distance from the road.—(H. M. Temple.)
YUSUF KHAN—
A village in the Radkan district of north-eastern Khorasan, situated about
11 miles south-east of Kuchan. It has a population of 100 families of Kinds
and Turks, who possess 200 cattle, 400 sheep and goats and 40 horses the
normal annual production of wheat and barley is 9,600 and 7,200 Indian
maunds, respectively.— (Oranoffsky, 1894.)
YUZBASHl—
A stream in north-eastern Khorasan, draining the eastern extremity of
the Kupeh Dagh range northwards, in the vicinity of the Kalateh Ckmar
stream.— (Petrusevitch .)
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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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