!['GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎298v] (601/706)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100025472757.0x000001/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_3_1_0601.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎298v] (601/706)")
'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [298v] (601/706)
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. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
581
SULTAN B-SULTANK
round is generally fertile and produces average crops of cereals ; vines
flourish. To the north-east, distant 4 miles, lies a salt lake. During Jan
uary and February traffic is impeded by heavy falls of snow when the
thermometer falls to 3° below freezing. Supplies are procurable; trans
port is scarce and must be collected from villages ; donkeys are much used by
the villagers.
There is an alternative road to Tehran via Saveh, besides the regular road
through Qum.
Sultanabad is the residence of a local governor having jurisdiction over
the mahalls of Kazzaz, Chahar-ab, Farahan, Mahallat, and Kalat. There is
a Persian telegraph and post office here.— (Bell ; Yusuf Sharif ; Preece ;
Schindler ; Na'pier.)
SULTAN BAJl— Elev. 2,905'.
A village and large caravansarai, half way between Qum and Pul-i-
Dallak on the old road to Tehran. Beyond it to the east is the Qumrud
district belonging to Qum.— (Schindler.)
SULTANlEH— Lat. 36° 25' 52"; Long. 48° 52' 20". Elev. 5,596'.
A large village containing 500 houses, the chief place of the Khuda-
bandehlu sub-district of Khamseh. It lies 76 miles from Kazvln on the post
road to Tabriz and some 26 miles south-east of Zinjan, and is situated in
a pleasant and fertile plain where the Shah often encamps in the summer to
avoid the hot and unhealthy climate of Tehran. It was the capital of the
descendants of Hulaku.
<£ The tomb of Khudabandeh is really a noble edifice. The area is 100
feet in diameter ; the dome, 120 feet high from the ground, is nearly pointed
at the top and covered with green lacquered tiles, with which it has also-
been lined, but the interior is now plastered over. The body of the building
is of octagonal form. A cornice is carried round the interior, about 12 feet
from the ground, on which an Arabic inscription in large letters is carved, and
has apparently been gilt. There is a sort of chapel attached to the tomb on
the side nearest Mecca, and the same, by the way, is the case with the ruined,
mosque in the suburb of Tabriz. The material of the edifice is brick;
a minaret seems to have been placed on each of its angles ; of these, only one
remains entire. There is another object of interest on the north side of the
town—a fragment of wall about 40 feet high, and 4| feet thick, supported by
buttresses and faced with square slabs of greenish stone, very neatly cut.
The top seems to have been machicolated.
The plain of Sultanleh is so ample that Napoleon’s Grand Army,
with which he invaded Russia, might have manoeuvred in it with ease ; it
is a great place for exercising troops. It is a famous place for a gallop, and
foxes, hares, and deer are to be found ; but the ground is rendered dangerous
for horses by the innumerable holes of the jerboa.
There p,re some troops permanently stationed in the neighbourhood.
Cheap rates prevail in the bazaar and water is fairly plentiful. (Lemm ; Yusuf
Sharif ; Schindler.)
SULTAN KULI—
A village in Kirmanshah situated in the Bllawar valley about 30 miles
north of Kirmanshah city.
About this item
- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (349 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
- Physical characteristics
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.
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [298v] (601/706), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/universal-viewer/81055/vdc_100034644547.0x000002> [accessed 18 June 2026]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100034644547.0x000002
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100034644547.0x000002">'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎298v] (601/706)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100034644547.0x000002"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100025472757.0x000001/IOR_L_MIL_17_15_3_1_0601.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100025472757.0x000001/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
- Title
- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence