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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [271v] (547/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. 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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530
SAMA- SAMN
the water is made to turn a mill. Garden crops are produced. The village
numbers about 60 houses. The proprietor lives in the villages. Industry :
carpets and gilims. There is no Katkhuda.
On the opposite side of the river is the village of Agha Saiyid Musa, also
known under the name of Samareh. It belongs to Saiyid Yali and Saijud
’Isa and the heirs of the late Saiyid Musa. It numbers about 25 houses.
Cultivation : dalmi. Industry : carpets and gilims. It has no Katkhuda”
—(Mirza of Customs, M h dasht; Rabino.)
SAMBALA.—See SUMBULAK.
SAMAN—
A large village 7 miles south-west of Daulatabad Malayar.— {Schindler.)
SAMILEH—
A village in Kurdistan about 32 miles south of Sinneh situated high up
on the south-eastern slope of the Kuh Hashteh. It contains about 40
houses inhabited by Sunnis : the aspect is bare, as the gardens, trees and
cultivation belonging to it are situated in the various valleys on the moun
tain. It is the residence of Chiragh ’All Khan, the son of Haidar ’All Khan, •
of the Kullial tribe of Kurds, who has a fair-sized house in the place :
he is about 23 years of age and has a brother living with him. Supplies :
1,000 sheep and goats, a few cows and donkeys and 30 to 40 horses. Fire
wood is not procurable ; good grazing in the spring and summer ; water
from a stream. A number of springs of water. The mountain is bare of
trees, but grassy. Two miles below to the south-east runs the Kandula-
Sinneh road from which, at Bakarabad, Samileh is visible, 500 feet up the
mountain side. {Burton ; Vaughan.)
SAMlRAN—
A large village in the Hasanabad buluk of Kurdistan, 16 miles from Sin-
andij. It has a mosque built at the expense of Haji Shaikh Muhammad,
who was a pupil of Shaikh Osman Nur Ullah, a well-known leader of the
Naqshbandi dervishes.— {Schindler, 1902.)
SAMMUN—
A peak in the Elburz range to the south-east of Rasht. It is one of
the loftiest points in this part of the range.— {Holmes.)
SAMNAN (district)—
A district which, together with that of Damghan, now forms a separate
Government, but formed up to about 40 years ago a part of Khorasan.
Sumnan is a very extensive district, but one of the most thinly populated
of Persia. Its area is about 10,000 square miles, but the greater part
of this is desert, and the population of the district barely exceeds 15,000.
It is bounded on the north by the Elburz, on the west by the Tovarkan hills,
on the east by the Ahuan hills, and on the south it extends to beyond
Blabanak, nearly 200 miles from Samnan town. The district furnishes a
regiment of infantry to the Persian Army, w T hich, considering the small
population, takes away from the district a considerable percentage of its
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
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- 1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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