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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎260r] (524/652)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (322 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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via JNamd. It is embowered in trees and situated on the skirt of the
Sufah range. The e is a shrine here which is bast. It is not known who
is buried there.— (Miss Sykes, 1896 ; Dobbs, 1902.)
SAIlI MALUK—
Said to be a hamlet in the Bampur district, 25 miles west of Maskhutan,
on the Bamishk road. There are no supplies, and the water is scanty.—
(Brazier-Creagh, 1893, from native information.)
SAHLAH—
A small date-grove and well of fresh water, in the ndld called Khur
(or Kaur) Shur, near Bandar Abbas. It is passed in proceeding from
Kaleh-i-Kazi to Surkhan. The ndld itself is often called Sahlah.—
(Abdur Rahim.)
SAHRl-I-GURG—
A small gravelly plain in Bashakard, nearGani village.
It is situated on the banks of the Davari river, and is lightly covered
with kundr and her jungle.— (Galindo, November 1888.)
SAICHU-*(Kirman)—Elev. f 6 ’ 100 ' {Brazier-Creagh).
y 1 _ t. 7,140 (Napier).
A stage on’ Kirman-Bandar Abbas road, 35 miles south of Baft.
The name is a corruption of seh chdh, three wells. Formerly there was
a small village and fort here, but they are now in ruins, and there only
exist a few huts with three orchards and patches of ground which are
being prepared for spring sowing.
No supplies ; fuel abundant, also water, which is obtained from a kdriz
Supplies running down from the hills. Good cornel-
grazing along the valley ; which is scarce in
winter. There is a small village of four houses with two or three wells
to the west.— (Brazier-Creagh, 1894 ; Napier, 1899.)
SAIDABAD—
p A village in Rudbar (q.v.) in Kirman.
SAIDI—
Saidi, a small village, 4 miles from Kirman, on the road to Khabis,
situated in an open place at the mouth of a Tangi between low hills. No
supplies obtainable.— (Shaikh Mohi-ud-din, 1893-94.) .
SAIF-UD-DIN—
A plain and a pass beyond it, on the road from Bam to Bampur, one
stage beyond Ab-i-Garm. The plain is large and grassy, and impassable in
! wet weather. The pass is 700 or 800 feet high.— (Goldsmid ; Euan-
Smith.)
SAIF-UD-DIN, KGH-I- (Kirman) —
A range of hills between the Jamal Bariz Kuh and the Bazman Kuh.—
(Jennings.)
SAIGAN— Daman.

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The item is Volume IV of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of Persia south and east of the Bandar Abbas-Kirman-Birjand to Gazik line, with the exception of Sistan, 'which is dealt with in the Military Report on Persian Sistan'. It also includes the islands of Qishm, Hormuz, Hanjam, Larak etc. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the whole district of Shamil.

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, climate, 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, dated July 1909, on folio 323.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 313-321).

Prepared by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (322 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 324; 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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