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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [280r] (564/706)
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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The garrison in 1904 consisted of two regiments of infantry, one of cavalry
and some more or less serviceable looking guns.
The local Kurds are well armed and are relied on by the Government to
supply a strong contingent when required.— (NapierGerard ; Curzon ;
Gough, 1905.)
SltJ BULAGH (2)—
A small village to the left of the road from Ahar in Azarbaijan to Ardabil
24 miles from the former. It is situated on the pinnacle of an isolated hill,
at the foot of which flows the Ahar stream. It is surrounded by a wall and
contains about twenty poor huts.— (Holmes.)
SAUJ BULAGH (3)—
A fertile district with many villages, forming part of the Tehran Govern
ment. It is bounded on the north by the Elburz chain, on'the south by the
Kuh-i-Jari and the Kuh-i-Nimak. The greater part of the plain
between Tehran and Kazvin belongs to it.— (Schindler.)
SAUJ BULlGH (River)—
Vide Sauj Bulagh (1). This river, like many others in Persia is only ford
able in summer, and must be crossed by boats in the spring.— (Gough, 1905.)
SAULAGH—
Avillagein Azarbaijan, east of the Kara Sd river, and of Ardabil, on the
road to Kazvin.— (Holmes.)
SAUNLAWA—
A halting-place in western Kirmanshah, two stages west of that town
on the road to Sulaimanieh by Ahmad Kulwan.—{IftcA.)
SAUSAR—
A village in Gilan three miles east of Enzali, on the Murdab.—(5cAtnd-
ler.)
SAVAD KUH—
A district of Mazandaran, which extends north from the crest of the
pass from Tehran down the valley of the Talar to the village of Shlrgah.—
(Stuart.)
SAVALAN DAGH—Elev. 14,000'.
A mountain in Azarbaijan, about 30 miles west of Ardabil. Its crown
of perpetual snow feeds the stream even in summer, so that the country
round stands in no need of irrigation. The base is 37 miles in diameter.
An offshoot of the Savalan Dagh divides the two valleys and conse
quently the basin of the Caspian Sea from that of Lake Urumieh. It is
low in elevation and the incline moderate.— (Thielmann.)
SAVEH (district)—
The provinces of ’Iraq and Saveh, together with Kazzaz and Mahaialt,
form one government, though for some years they formed separate gov
ernments.
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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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