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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [275r] (554/706)
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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SARIB
537
SARlB (4)—Kangavar.
A village of the Kangavar district.— (Rabino, 1907.)
SARABAN MOUNTAIN—
A lofty mountain of the Bard-i-Zangir or Zalan district situated about
13 miles west of Juanrud, Persian Kurdistan. Its lower slopes are clothed
with oak forest; towards the summit it rises to a white peak of rounded
outline. It is almost entirely circled by the Lusha, Zalan, and Zimkan
rivers.— {Burton.)
SARAB GlLAN—Kalhur.
“ The place of residence on the Kirmanshah frontier of a small clan of the
Kalhur tribe, known as the Begzadeh Siah-Siah, and Mulla Mullaha Siah-
Slah, who jointly number only 100 families.”—(PZowdew). Elevation of
Sarab-i-Gilan 935 metres.— {DeMorgan.)
“ Sarab-i-Gilan is about 400 metres distant from Kuh-i-Saringavan and
f farsakhs from the Kalujeh range.—(Pa&ino.)
SARAB-I-MIRT—
See Gilan.
6ARAB-KAT or SARAUKAT—
A village of 60 houses in Ardalan, on the bank of a marshy stream about 83
miles from Kirmanshah on the road thence to Tabriz. {Napier.)
It belongs to Hashmat-i-Nizam, son of Nasir Divan. One hundred and
twenty houses. Mai at 300 tumans. Owner receives one-fifth of produce
and three donkeys per juft. The inhabitants are Chiharduli. Cultivation
wheat and barley. It is on the pilgrim road from Tabriz to Kirmanshah and
Karbala via Dinavar.
Three quarters of a farsakh further on towards Sinneh the road is cut at
right angles by the Hamadan-Sinneh road and telegraph line. Sarabkat is
3 farsakhs from Deh-Gulan, which is in the direction of Sinneh.—(Mawn ;
Rabino, 1911.)
BARAB-KHUSHKEH or SARAWOSHKEH—Baladeh.
There are two villages of this name, Sarab Khushkeh bald and pain,
they both number about 16 houses each and are distant a few hundred yards
one from the other. Sarab Khushkeh bald is on the banks of the Kara-
Su ; Sarab Khushkeh pain is at the foot of the K'amarbarik hills. The
summer route to Sinneh passes between the two villages, which are about
11 farsakhs distant from Kirmanshah. At Sarab Khushkeh bald there
is 4 a comfortable house with two rooms, but stabling is difficult to get.
The inhabitants are Namivand Lakks, who have separated from their tribe.
Cultivation ‘ wheat and barley.— {Rabino, 1901.)
SARAB or NlLUFAR— Elev. 4,570 r .
A village in Kirmanshah about 12 miles north-west by west of that
city in the Kara-Su valley, the property of the Shah. It contains about
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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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