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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [387v] (799/820)
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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743
ZAB-ZAI
stance attributable, I believe, to their superior material condition and to the
personal character of the chiefs.-; Stewart.)
For further information about the Za’afaianlu tribe and the history of
the family of their chief, see Kuchan (district).
ZABAR KHAN—
A sub-division of Nishapur, with a population of 8,000 souls and an
estimated revenue of 3,000 iumdns. The sub-division comprises a number
of villages in the ravines of the main range of Miiabad, north-west of the
Darb-i-Kazi. It is watered by the Tarukh and Baz Khan streams. The
people are Baiat, Turk, and ’Ajam, and number 2,000 families. Silk,
tobacco, and cotton are produced.— (Bellew; MacGregor’, Napier.)
ZAB ROD—
Name of the stream flowing in the Maian valley of the Ardameh sub
division of Meshed.—(C. E. Yate.)
ZADIS—
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A village, 2 miles north-west of Radkan, on the road to Darreh Gaz.—
{Napier.)
ZAGHAl —Elev. 5,600'.
A village in the Ardameh sub-division of the Meshed district in Khora-
san, 7 miles from Bar by the upper road, and 9 miles by the lower road.
The village contains about 100 houses, and is situated in the same valley
, as Maian, the latter being about 2 miles below the former. *
The valley is full of trees and orchards ; there are places for tents, and
once up on the top of the hills on either side, the ground is quite rideable.
The Zaghal stream which drains into Band-i-Gulistan is called Zabrud,
and there is a direct road up it from Zaghai to Qadamgah. From Zaghai
there is a direct road over the hills across two kutals to Meshed via
the village of ’Alamdasht, and the distance is said to be 5 or 6 farsakhs.
Water and good supplies plentiful.—(C. E. Yate, 1897.)
zaghOdeh—
A halting-place in Khorasan, 100 miles from Shahrud, 125 miles from
, Sultanabad (Turshiz), on the road between them. There is a well of water
. here, but it is slightly brackish. Firewood is abundant; but the encamp*
ing-ground is confined.— {Clerk.)
ZAHIRABAD —Elev. 3,350*.
A village of about 20 houses, situated 24 miles south-west of Turbat-i-
Haidarion theroadtoKakh, Yazd ; Kirman and Bandar ’Abbas It has
a fine
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
, known as Robat-i-Bibi. There are afewgaraens and
an abundant and good water-supply from 2 kdrizes and a small band, the
latter situated about 2 miles to the south-west. Plentiful supplies.—
{H.D. Napier ; Yate, 1893 ; Mania Bakhsh ; Watson, 1906.)
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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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