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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎268r] (540/706)

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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. .

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SAF—SAH
523
SAFlD-T AMISH EH— '
Pasture land east of Surldiani stream which forms the boundary bet
ween Gilan and Mazandaran.— (Rabino.)
SAGHAK (Valley of)—Elev. 5,970'.
A grassy mountain valley at the north exit of the iang Sizdeh Khiran.
The grazing in soring is very good, but the valley contains no water after
the winter snow has melted. The surrounding mountains rise steeply,
thick with grass, but bare of trees.
The valley is traversed by the Kirmanshah-Kandula road 26 miles
from the former place ; a path also leaves it to the west to Darband on
the Sinneh road.— (Ih/r£ow.)
SAGMAN— Elev. 4,700'.
A village in the southern border of Azarbaljan, 19 miles south-west of
t Sauj Bulagh on the road to Khalissisar, which is 5 miles distant.—(£eranZ.)
SAGMAN CHAT—
A rivulet flowing close to Khalissiar, on the southern border of Azar
baljan.— {Gerard.)
SAGZI— Lat. 32° 41' 9"; Long. 52° 5' 32"; Elev. 5,178 , ‘.
A village in the Kuhpayeh mahall of the Isfahan province, 29 miles east
of Isfahan on the road to Yazd. It is a walled village flanked with round
cornered towers, and containing about 350 inhabitants. There is a good
solidly built caravansarai. Crops, wheat and cotton, are sufficient only
for the wants of the inhabitants. Water good from kandt streams,—
{Vaughan, 1890.)
SAGZlABAD—
A small village 78 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan by Ish-
tahard. This is the same as that given by Jukes as 109 miles from Qum
on the road to Bastanab and Sultanieh.— {Jukes; Campbell.)
SAHALAN—
A village in the midst of cultivation, 13 miles north-west of Tabriz
in Azarbaljan, on the road to Khoi.— (Morier.)
SAHAND—
A mountain 1,200 feet high about 20 miles south-south-east of Tabriz
in Azarbaljan. Its snow-capped peak is to be seen from Zinjan and other
distant places.
The mountain is of volcanic origin ; about half way up its slope is »n
immense bed of volcanic ash, extending east and west, where the shep
herds have dug caves for their flocks at night, or when overtaken by storms.
Near the summit are large quantities of porphyry, from which the ancient
tombstones found near Tabriz, and the stones seen in the foundations
of mosques and bridges are taken. It takes a fine polish and is as hard
as adamant and black as ebony. In the region of this ash bed, towards
the north-east of the range, is a fine hot spring, with an ancient bath still
standing, said to be the work of Shah ’Abbas. The water is impregnated.

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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.

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1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).

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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.

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