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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [270r] (544/706)
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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SAIYAKA—
A small village, 46| miles from Sultanabad on the road to Kashan under
the Mahallat Governorship. It contains 15 houses, 50 people; 1,560 Iba.
of grain are sown yearly ; no taxes.— (Preece, 1893.)
SAJ SACK—
A village about eight miles from Yazd, towards Maibud. It has a
remarkable hill near it called Takht-i-Jamshid.— (Abbott.)
SAKHUI—
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh sub-division of Yazd, near ’Aliabad.—
(MacGregor.)
SAKHVID—
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh district of Yazd. Standing on a bare
slope, overlooking the desert and watered by very small brooks. The
land about Sakhvid is irrigated by kandts. The village lies immediately
south of the Shirkuh range, south of Yazd.— (Stack.)
SALAGUR—
A village, about three stages distant from Isfahan on the road to Ardal.
— (Mackenzie.)
SALAH— Elev. 8,400'.
A Chaman ”, or pasture of few acres in extent between Firuzkuh and
Chashmeh in Mazandaran. It is visited annually by the shepherds of the
Sang-i-Sar tribe who inhabit during the cold season the large village of
the same name, close to the Samnan.— (Lovett.)
SALAH-UD-DlN KALEH commonly known as SARDlN KALEH.
A village in Mazandaran, inhabited by a few Khojavands. The ’Abdul
Malikis who used to raside here left in the time of Agha Khan Miri and
settled in Zaghmarz.— (Rabino.)
SALAMABAD-
A village 73 miles north-north-east of Kashan. It is situated near a
salt river, and no other water is to be had.— (Gibbons.)
SALARABAD—
A village in Kirmanshah situated in the Bilawar valley about 30 miles
north of Kirmanshah city.
It contains about 20 houses inhabited by Bilawari Kurds and is built
by the side of a high rounded mound ; water from a stream, cultivation,
crops and grazing ; supplies : 500 sheep and goats.— (Vaughan.)
SALARKHANEH—
A village in Kurdistan about 29 miles north-west of Kirmanshah. It is
situated at the foot of some low hills overlooking the valley of the Kara
Su. It contains about 15 houses, inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis. Water
from a stream, a few trees, some cultivation and good grazing; supplies :
50 cows, 150 sheep and goats.— (Vaughan.)
SALAVAN—
A village of Azarbaijan, situated high on the right of the road from
Kh6I to Bagizia, 30 miles north-west of the former place. It is at the
entrance of a plain.— (Morier.)
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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