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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [279r] (562/706)
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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SARSLtri—Elev. 4,700'.
A village in Kurdistan, 14 miles north of Saqqiz, situated on a tributary
of the Tatawa. It is on the boundary between the Saqqiz and Mikri Kurd
districts.— {Gerard.)
SARTAG—
One of a group of villages immediately to the north-west of Khumain
to the left of the road to Sultanabad. Well cultivated.— {Preece, 1893.)
SARUKH—
A village with a population of 1,000 souls on the Kirmanshah-Qum
road about 160 miles south-east from Kirmanshah. The land is fertile,
and all sorts of supplies can be had here. The chief industry of the people
is carpet weaving. The carpets of Sarukh are famous in Persia.— {Rabmo.)
SARUN—
A beautiful village on the road from Tehran to Firuzkuh and Sari, about
48 miles short of the former.— {Ouseley.)
SARUQ—
A river formed by the junction of four streams rising about Takht-i-
Sulaiman, in the Afshar district of Azarbaijan. It flows west in a rocky,
narrow valley between high banks broken at intervals by huge ravines,
which intersect the country in every direction and run down to the bed of
the river ; near Safar Khanehtappeh it runs into the Jagliatu (q.v.). About
twelve miles north of Tikan on the road to Sainkaleh, it is crossed by a good
stone bridge 15 feet wide.— {Napier.)
SARV or SARU—
A village in Mazandaran, 3 miles from Ashraf and a little south of the road
to Astarabad.— {Napier.)
S ARY ASHE H (1)—
A series of valleys in the south face of the Elburz range, which lie north
of Firuzkuh, a favourite hunting-place of the Shahs of Persia. The Sar-
vasheh stream flows from the north in a wide swampy hollow, and reach
ing the mountains, which bound the south of the plateau, turns east, passes
through a narrow gorge, and then through the village. Here it is crossed by
a small bridge. The stream is perennial, 15 feet wide, and shallow.— {Mor-
ier ; Napier.)
SARVASHEH (2)—
A stream flowing from the Vasheh valley, past Firuzkuh, where it is
crossed by a small bridge. Stream perennial, 15 feet wide, and shallow.—*
{Napier.)
SATFAR—
A village containing about 70 houses, and 50 acres of cultivation
principally wheat, 22 miles south-east of Turud, on the road to Samnan.
It is separated from the kavir by broken ground. Water plentiful from
two kandt streams, one of which is 2 feet 6 inches broad and 6 inches deep,
— {Vaughan, 1891.)
C300GSB
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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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