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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎275v] (555/706)

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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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538
SARAD—SABAJ
20 houses inhabited by Zanganeh Kurds, and has some crops and cultiva
tion, about 60 kharwtirs of wheat and barley, two watermills, and one or two
trees; excellent grazing. The place is situated at the foot of some low
hills dividing the Kara-Su and Mahidasht plains. Close by the village is
a large reservoir of fresh w iter about 350 by 500 yards in extent. It is dammed
up at its lower end, where it is about 20 feet deep ; numerous springs rise in
it, and the borders are fringed in places with rushes, while a number of water-
lilies grow on its surface. There used to be a large number of trees, but they
have all been cut down. The water is crowded with fish of all sizes up to
about 20 lbs., which take a small gold spoon. Numbers of wild duck are to be
found amongst the rushes and pools below the reservoir. The streams to
which it gives rise flow, the one to Safid Chiah and thence on into the Kara-
Su ; the other flows past Chiah Qasim and past the eastern side of Mahlabad
to Nazarabad and thence on into the above-mentioned river. Troops can
camp in the vicinity, the south side of the reservoir being best; there is no
firewood. Supplies : 60 kharwdrs of wheat and barley, 100 cows, 400 sheep
and goats.— (Bur/on.)
SARADASH— Elev. 4,200'.
A village in southern Azarbaljan on the right bank of the Sulduz Chai
13 miles south-east of Shaikh Ahmad, and 20 miles north-west of Saflj
Bulagh.— (Gerard.)
SARA! (1)—
A village on the Turkish border of Azarbaljan, 4 stages west of Tabriz
on the road to Van. It is situated in a plain 6 miles long and well cultivated.
It is a scattered place, but does not contain more than about 30 h mses.
Its position renders it an important place on the frontier line, as the Persian
territory is only 2 hours distant.— (MacGregor.)
SARA! (2)—
A village of 40 houses on the Tehran-Hamadan road, 157 miles from
Tehran.— (Scb'ndler.)
sarAjeh—
Part of the Humeh district of Qum formerly a separate district. There
are the following villages in the district, each watered by a canal bearing
the same name as the village—Sarajeh, sixty families, largely in ruins ; Shah-
abad, thirty families ; Safiabad, ten families ; Zafarani, twenty families ; Mar-
varid, ten families ; Mubarakabad, forty families ; Mu’minabad, one hundred
families ; Husainabad, ten families ; Hasanabad, twenty families ; Hissar,
twenty families; ’Aliabad, ten families; Rustamabad, thirty families; Daulat-
abad, forty families; Ja’afarabad, twenty families ; Jannatabad, five families ;
Karimabad, fifteen families; Karamabad, twenty families ; Qasimabad,
five families; Khalajabad, five families; Farajabad, five families ; Fathabad,
twenty families ; Hashimabad, Saiyidabad and Kavirabad, three canals with
one settlement of thirty families; Ahvasabad, twenty families; Batlijird,
ten families ; Nuvaran, fifty families ; Nujamabad, Hajiabad, ’Abbasabad,
Razaabad, totally ruined and uninhabited, their fields are looked after by
people from other villages.— (Schindler.)

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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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