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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [‎262r] (528/652)

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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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SANG-I-SAFlD— Elet. about 1,950'.
A stage on tlie Bijnabad-Kirman road on the Jnuft plain.
22 miles north of Bijnabad and 9 miles from Dusan
Sang-i-Safld, so called from sang, a stone, and sajid white. The gr u
is strongly impregnated with lime, and the Gamu hills to the east are of
LeZne formation. When the crops have been reaped m the autumn
the inhabitants go to the neighbourhood of Khanu and Rudbar for t e c
W Tt:'is no village here ; on^-e sca^d^ ^along^r^.
Villages.
Description.
Cultivation and water.
Muradabad
20 huts
Qandts and cultivation
Muhammadabad
lo „
>> >> >*
Klrabad
40 „
» 5> ”
Nizamabad
Shiirahazar
60 „
10 „
,, 99 99 * *
Qandts and a good deal of cul
tivation.
Shah Murdan
Absigu . .
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Dates*cultivation and qandts
Mdlldt.
15 tumdns.
10 „
12 „
17 „
20 „ k .
35 „
30 „
Supplies.
unable m small quantities '
sheep are always procurable, fuel plentituJ ,
water good from larlzes and wells. A
considerable amount of supplies could be collected from the hamlets
along the river ; there is a thick jungle of hahur
rich crops (millet and til) to ^m V —{Brazier-Creagh, 1894 , Gibbon, 1908.)
SANGL A MUSHAK-Lat. 28° 25'; Long. 58° 34".
Five huts situated in a small ndld in Kirman. Water is good and wood
plentiful. There is some coarse grass to be found m the hilly nalas bu
no camel-grazing. Ghish and jag both abound m the neighbourhood. -
(Gibbon, 1908.)
SANGtN— Elev. 5,774'. , -r
A village in Sarhad, situated at the junction of the Sanghn and Daruk
Kaurs, 28 miles north of Vasht, on the road to Ladis.
The inhabitants, who number about 150, are Kurds but are n
tinguishable from the surrounding Sarhadi population. ^tZ aovemor
and in a dilapidated stone fort, which is the residence of the governor.
A stream of sweet water irrigates a small area of cultivated gro ,
which produces annually some 500 Indian maunds of wheat and barley
and about 250 Indian maunds of cotton. Close to the vi age g rows
immense cypress tree, whose girth, measured 5 feet above the groun ,
25 feet. _ ,
In the vicinity of Sangun are the following villages
Gazak about 3 miles to the south. It has a population of about 150 and
produces 250 Indian maunds of wheat.

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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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