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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [390r] (804/820)
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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A village on the Shirvan plain, where the Mirzu ravine emerges by the
Kuljak pass, after passing through a rocky gorge to a village called Duaba
and there joins that from Tarkharan.—(Macieaw.)
ZlARATGAH—
A hamlet of Naiband, on the western border of Khoiasan—(Steward)
ZlARAT-I-KHASRtD or KHYASH RtJD—
An encamping-ground and village south of Ziarat, in the Astarabad district,
about 15 miles south of Astarabad.— [Lovett.)
ZlARAT-I-PANJ BIRADAR—
A village containing 50 families in the Bujniird valley in Khorasan, on
the road to Firuzeh.—(ff. M. Temple.)
ZlARAT-I-SAIYID Nl’AMATULLAH—
A small dome near Biqrabad in the Bam district of Khorasam (H. M.
Temple.)
ZlBAD— , . J
A village in Khorasan on the road from Kakh to Turbat-i-Haidan, and
15 miles from the former. It consists of some 200 houses, surrounded by
fruit gardens, and abundantly watered from hill streams. It is an open
village in the Gunabad sub-division of Tabas. Embroidery on silk is
worked by the women.— [Goldsmid ; Bellew ; Rozario.)
ZlDAR— Lat. 37° 50' O"; Long. 57° 45'0".
A village in northern Khorasan, about 35 miles north-east of BujnGrd.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
ZIHtN—E lev. 5,121'. r ^
A village of 500 houses in the Pusht-i-Kuh sub-division of Birjand, on
the road between Rul Khaf and Tabas.-(ff. D. Napier.)
ZINDEH JAN or ZINDEH ZAN—
A place in eastern Khoiasan near Deh Minar, south of Turbat-i-Shaikh
Jam.— (MacGregor.)
ZlR DUKDEH—Elev. 4,200'.
A village in the Takmaran valley of the Kuchan district in Khorasan,
situated between Yangi Kaleh and Garma Khan, being 14 miles from the
former and a similar distance from the latter. The water-supply of this
village consists of only one small spring of bad water. There are about 20
families of Kurds in the village, which is under the Naib of Shirvan.
Supplies scarce. — (C. E. Yate, 1894.) \ . V/ » J
ZIRIK— [
A village in Khoiasan, about 10 miles from Bushrmeh, in which a pretty
embossed white earthenware is made. It is the chief place also of a sub
division consisting of Aspak, ’Aliabad, Taraj, Rukhi, Arishk, Murdistan,
Deh-i-Nau, Khurramabad, etc., au^ ’ S the residence of the Naib of the sub
division.— (MacGregor.)
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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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