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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME IV.' [272r] (548/652)
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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SARZEH (River)—
A salt-water stream in the'Shamil district which rises in the hills about
50 miles to the north of the port of that name, and after a generally south
easterly course emptier itself into the mangrove swamp which lies to the
east of Bandar Abbas.— [Galindo, 1888.)
SASHtf—
A village in Persian Baluchistan, two days’ journey south-west of
Bampur.— [Hdji ’Abdul Nabi.)
SATATABAD—Fide Sa’adabad.
SAURAN—
A date grove on the left bank of the Kajfi river, 5 miles above Qasr«
qand. Grazing and fuel plentiful. No habitations. Water from river
[Grey, 1906.)
SAVAR (village)—
i A village in south-eastern Khorasan, north-by-east of a hill above Furk,
above 4 miles distant.— [MacGregor.)
SEHBANSUL—
A village in the Minab district [q.v.).
SEHCHAH, KGH-I- —
A snow peak in Kirman, to the south-west of the Dasht Ab plain.—
(Napier, 1899.)
SEH FARSAKH—
A village, lying below some hills between Neh and Istin.— [Mohi-ud-Din.)
SEH KAHtR— Elev. 2,028'.
A small hamlet in Kirman, 23 miles east-south-east of ’Azlzabad, on the
road from there to Chah Ahmad. It is watered by a qandt, and there is
a little grazing in the vicinity.— [Moore, January 1904.)
SEHLABAD— Lat. 32° 14' 0". Long. 59 o 55'0". Elev. 4.—(Waller.)
A village situated in the Chah Daraz valley, between the Kuh-i-Baran
and Kuh-i-Hari hills. It is on the road between Nasratabad (Sistan)
and Blrjand, and is 69 miles from the latter town. The village contains
110 houses and 550 inhabitants, and possesses 110 cattle, 1,500 sheep
and goats and 40 camels. The annual production of wheat and barley
in an ordinary year is about 510 kharwdrs (Kdin) or 2,580 Indian maunds.
The Meshed-Sistan telegraph line passes close to the village, but there is
no telegraph office. About 6 miles to the south is the Lurg-i-Shuturan (salt
lake) which provides salt to the surrounding villages. The valley is
exceedingly rich in camel-grazing. Plentiful water-supply from a lariz,
slightly brackish; fuel from the neighbourhood of the Lurg.—
(C. Wanliss, July 1903.)
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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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