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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎278v] (561/706)

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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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544
SARK—SARQ
SARKALEH (1).—Zuhab.
The plain of Sarkaleh north of the plain of Zuhab is the gdrmsn of the
2 branches of Jafs, who are under the Gurans. Rich speaks of a village
9 miles east of Zuhab in Kirmanshah on the road to Banikalan and Sulai-
manieh, but this village no more exists. There is a ruined fort in the plain.
The village was re-established by Shaikh Nizam-ud-din this year (1913).
It is now (1913) in the hands of Fath Beg, Walad Begi.— (Soane, 1913.)
SARKALEH (2)—
A defile in Mazandaran, 7 miles from Zirab, on the road from Tehran to
Sari. It is a very difficult ascent, up which animals cannot go without being
regularly dragged up.— (Ouseley.)
SARKASH—
A mountain in the Qasr-i-Shirin district, forming part of the southern
border of that district.— (Soane, 1911.)
SARKUH—
A mountain of Ardalan west of Takht-i-Sulaiman which is 35 miles
south-west of Sinneh.— (Gerard.)
SARLAK—
A sub-division of Japalaq ; it lies to the left of tl e Isfahln-Burujird road
from Chaman-i-Suitan about the Lar-i-Lak Kuh.— (Schindler.)
SARM—
A large village in the Vazkerud district of Qum, 10| miles south-east
of the town of Qum. It is situated on a fertile plain.— (Schindler.)
SAR-I-MlL—
A hamlet of 3 or 4 houses and a few grass huts containing prostitutes
8 miles north of Karind on the main road to Baghdad, situated on a plain
about 4 miles in width : inhabitants, Kurds. Water and grazing plentiful
in the vicinity, and numerous flocks of sheep and goats ; a number of
donkeys about. There are about 500 tents of Kurds in the neighbourhood.
The crops, which are of wheat and barley, are reaped in June.— (Vaugh
an.)
A village of western Kirmanshah close to Mian Tak. The road from
Sar-i-Pul to Karind passes through it.— (Plowden.)
SARMUSAKLI CHAl (the garlic river); correctly Sarimsakli.—
A river rising in the hills north of Zinjan and flowing into the Zinjaneh
Rud about 9 miles below Zinj^n.—(Schindler.)
SARQAMEH—
A prominent peak in the Kurdistan range of mountains, to the south
of the range as seen from the Garan pass 15 miles east of Marivan on the road
to Shaikh Attar. Trees and shrubs cease entirely on the east slopes, where
a good deal of shale crops up on the hills.— (Gerard.)

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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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