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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [296r] (596/706)
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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SIRINJEH—
Sirinj eh, a village in Lower Sllakhur, about 38 miles from Burujird, and
to the left of the road thence to Isfahan.— {Schindler.)
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SIRINJIANA—
Stands above the left bank of the Qishlaq river on a cultivated slope,
surrounded by orchards and gardens, about 5 miles below Sinneh. Contains
50 houses of Kurds and is the property of a Sinneh merchant, Habibullah.
SlRUI or SIRUYEH—
A village in the Kuhistan district of Qum, 1| miles south-east of Varjan,
with 20 houses ; on the Bidhand river.— {Schindler.)
SISTAN—also SAISTAN—
A village 12 miles south of Damghan.— {Schindler.)
SITAGUN—
A village in the Faridan division of the Isfahan province, a couple
of miles south-west of Nimagird, at the foot of the AkfasK—{Schindler.)
SITARGU—
A prominent mountain, five miles west by north of Takht-i-Sulaiman
and about thirty south-west of Sinneh in Ardalan.— (Gerard.)
SITAWAR—
A mountain chain of Azarbaijan, south-west of Urumieh.— {Gerard.)
SITEH—
Principal village of the Buzchalu district, on the northern slopes of the
Vavus Kuh. It has 200 houses.— {Schindler.)
SlUNCHI—
50 miles east of Isfahan on the road to Yazd, a village containing 30
houses.—(F aughan, 1891.)
SIVAJ— Elev. 5,970'.
A village in northern Kurdistan, 8 miles south-west of Kapura, and
7 north-east of Baneh, the head of which valley is close to Simach.—
{Gerard.)
SlYAN—
A village 93f miles from Kazvin on the post-road thence to Tabna. It
is in the Zanjaneh sub-district of Khamseh.—(ScArndfer.)
SlZAN— • , -n •• j
A village in Lower Silakhur, Burujird province, 38 miles from Burujird
to the right of the road to Mahan.—{Schindler.)
SlZDABA— ^
A village of Yazd, 18 miles north-west of that town on the road to K&iha*.
— {Kinneir.)
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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