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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [276r] (556/706)
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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SARA-SARD
539
sArAl—
See Hulatii.
SARAMBAL— Elev. 6,050'.
A village of fifty houses in western K urdistan, 21 miles north of Panjvin
near the frontier.— {Gerard.)
SARARti—
Stands on the slope of a bare rarge running down towards the
Kirmanshah main road, some 14 miles east of the city. Here also the road
to Khurramabad via Harsin diverges cast-south-east. There is a good stream
of water ; grazing abundant, and large flocks of sheep and goats. No trees
or wood in the vicinity. The village lies \ mile south of the Harsin and
| mile distant from the main road. There are 40 houses of various Kurdish
tribes.— {Burton.)
SARASKAND—
A village in the Hasht-Rud district of Azarbaijan. Roads from Mianeh,
Maragheh, and Tabriz join here.— {Morier.)
SARA SU—
A place about 1| farsakhs from Arab on the Aras, in north-western
Azarbaijan—the winter quarters of a small Kurdish clan called Burkive
{Picot 1894.)
SARAVAN—
A small district in Gilan on the Kazvln-Rasht road. In it are the post
houses of Kuhdum and Imamzadeh Hashim {q.v.). — {Schindler.)
SAR BANDAN—
A village 32 miles from FIruzkuh, and 32 miles from Tehran, on the
road between them. It is situated on the brink of a clear stream which
issues from a mountain gorge. Stuart calls it a " shabby village
{Eastwick ; Stuart .)
sardAbAd—
_ A village in the Mariyan huluk of Kurdistan, situated at the junction of the
Ab-i-Marlvan and the Ab-i-Surkaul.— {Schindler, 1902.)
SARDAB RUD (1) (Mazandaran)—
A river in Mazandaran rising in the Elburz mountains and flowing into
the Caspian between the Rudpusht and the Chalus streams.— {Holmes.)
SARD-AB-RUD (2)— Lat. 36° 41' 1"; Long. 51° 26' 2Cr.
A village in Mazandaran situated at the mouth of a river of the same
name on its left bank. The river is fordable when crossed by the coast
road in winter, but not in spring or summer.— {Holmes ; Pushchin ; Stewart )
SARD AH AN— Elev. 7,891'.
Name of a pass and halting place between Isfahan and Natanz. The
halting place, which is 3 miles north of the pass according to the map hag
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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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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/3/1
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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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