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‘Gazetteer of Persia, Part III, including Fārs, Lūristān, Arabistān, Khūzistān, Yazd, Karmānshāh, Ardalān, Kurdistān’ [321v] (647/686)
The record is made up of 1 volume (336 folios). It was created in 1885. 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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SUL—SUN
this stands prominent for the utter state of anarchy which exists and
for the fanaticism of the population and dominant position of the
Shaikhs (religious). Two battalions are quartered here and one at Kara-
dagh. In 1881 the town was besieged for four days by Hamawands,
and would have fallen but for the arrival of another battalion. The
inhabitants had in the first instance invited them, but subsequently
feared admitting them. No walls exist to the town, but the narrow
lanes are easily defended. Small caravans are plundered close to the
town with impunity, and sometimes altogether looted to stripping a
man’s clothes. A great many fox-skins are exported hence to Russia.
Fifty years ago Travers wrote of Sullmama that it was a miserable
collection of hovels and ruins. It is situated in a hollow, about 2 miles
from the foot of the east range of hills. The neighbouring hills
are steep and bare, about 900 feet high. It contained then about
2,000 houses of Muhammadans, 130 of Jews. The climate is intensely
cold in winter, but pleasant in summer. It is a tributary province of
the Baghdad Pashalik. {Travers — Gerard.)
SULIMANlAH—Lat. Long. Elev.
The name of an ancient canal coming from the Karun, crossing the
Dorak canal at right angles and flowing south towards the sea.
{Felly.)
SULKAR on SUTKAR—Lat. Long. JETev.
A village, 16 miles east of Mazinan, on the road from Snahrud to Sabza-
war in Khurasan. {Khanikoff.)
SULTANA BAD—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, on the road from Bihbahan to Shustar and about
40 miles from the former. It was a rich village, surrounded by gar
dens in Monteith’s time, but is now described as a poor, mean-looking
place, and a very nest of brigands. It lies miles from Rustamabad.
It has a few date palms and some bean cultivation. The valley is here
about 4| miles broad. {Jones — Monteith — Blunt — Baring — Wells.)
SUMGUL—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Kazrun in Ears, north of that place and east of the road
to Bihbahan. {DeBode.)
SfJNAS—Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass on the border of Kurdistan leading to Sulimania in Turkey.
It is quite impassable for many months on account of the snow.
{Travers.)
StJNGAR—Lat. Long. Elev.
An open town of Karmanshah, on the road to Tabriz via Bijar, 54
miles from the town of Karmanshah. It has 2,000 houses, in a well-
cultivated valley, showing many villages. The pass over the shoulder
of the remarkable Mahin Kuk is the best into the valley from below
Zukab. J
. r l^ e flourishing agricultural town of Sungar extends its gardens and
vineyards across to the skirt of the Dalakhana mountain. There are
forty shops in the town. Unlike most other towns in Persia it has no
ruined quarter, the famine, though felt, having left no permanent traces.
620
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The third of four volumes comprising a Gazetteer of Persia. The volume, which is marked Confidential, covers Fārs, Lūristān [Lorestān], Arabistān, Khūzistān [Khūzestān], Yazd, Karmānshāh [Kermānshāh], Ardalān, and Kurdistān. The frontispiece states that the volume was revised and updated in April 1885 in the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General’s Department in India, under the orders of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor, Quartermaster-General in India. Publication took place in Calcutta [Kolkata] by the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, in 1885.
The following items precede the main body of the gazetteer:
- a note by Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Deputy Quartermaster General, Intelligence Branch, requesting inaccuracies, omissions and suggestions for the gazetteer be reported to the Deputy Quartermaster General;
- a second note, dated 26 November 1885, describing the geographical scope of the four volumes comprising the Gazetteer of Persia , and also making reference to the system of transliteration used (Hunterian) and authorities consulted;
- a preface, containing a summary of the geographical boundaries of the Gazetteer, a description of the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , an abridged account of trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the year 1884, and a description of telegraphs in the regions described by the Gazetteer.
The gazetteer includes entries for human settlements (villages, towns and cities), geographic regions, tribes, significant geographic features (such as rivers, canals, mountains, valleys, passes), and halting places on established routes. Figures for latitude, longitude and elevation are indicated where known.
Entries for human settlements provide population figures, water sources, location relative to other landmarks, climate. Entries for larger towns and cities can also include tabulated meteorological statistics (maximum and minimum temperatures, wind direction, remarks on cloud cover and precipitation), topographical descriptions of fortifications, towers, and other significant constructions, historical summaries, agricultural, industrial and trade activities, government.
Entries for tribes indicate the size of the tribe (for example, numbers of men, or horsemen), and the places they inhabit. Entries for larger tribes give tabulated data indicating tribal subdivisions, numbers of families, encampments, summer and winter residences, and other remarks.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
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- 1 volume (336 folios)
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The gazetteer’s entries are arranged in alphabetically ascending order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 341; 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 has two printed pagination systems, the first of which uses Roman numerals and runs from I to XIII (ff 3-10), while the second uses Arabic numerals and runs from 1 to 653 (ff 12-338).
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