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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎293r] (590/706)

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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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SIAHK—SIAHR
573
SIAH KALEH RED—
A considerable river in Mazandaran, flowing into the Caspian between
Rud-i-Sar and Shlr-i-Rud. In winter it is nearly dry—(ffoZmes.)
SIAH KAMAR—
A village about 5^ miles north-west of Kirmanshah city on the south
side of the road thence to Juanrud by the Kara-Su valley. It is on the
north slope of the hill known as Siah Kamar and contains from 40 to 50
houses. Two or three trees. Water from a stream. Supplies : 50 cows,
1,200 sheep and goats. No firewood; good grazing. {Vaughan.)
SIAH KHANI—
Lies about a mile to the north-west of the Kirmanshah-Kandula road,
is situated above the left bank of a dry watercourse at the foot of a bare
spur. Water from springs : some trees and cultivation. Flocks of sheep
and goats which are pastured in the adjacent mountains in the summer
months. The village is the property of the son of Zahid-ul-Mulk of Kirman
shah (1897) and consists of 30 houses of Kmds.—{Burton.)
SIAH KHWAR—
A village in Kirmanshah on the main road from Baghdad to Kirman
shah city and 30 miles south-west of the latter. It contains about 10
houses inhabited by Kalhur Kurds. Has no trees; a little cultivation.
Water from a spring, of which there are several in the vicinity. ■
{Vaughan.)
SlAHKUH (1)—(the black mountain).
A hill on the road from Daulatabad Malayar to Nihavand, about 12
miles from the former place.— {Schindler.)
SlAHKUH (2)—
A range of mountains between Yazd and Biabanak. {MacGregor.)
SlAHKUH (3)—
A range of mountains rising from north-west to south-east, from Kuhpa
towards Taft in Yazd. There is a break in the range opposite Agda, th rough
which Baluch marauders used to swoop down on the Agda-Nain road. The
range has a black sa w-like ridge.
SIAHPALAS— Elev. 8,600'.
A plateau west of mount Damavand. It lies south of the Lar river, just
south of where the Safid river joins it.— {Lovett.)
sIahpush—
A village, with large olive groves in the Jamalabad district north-west
of Kazvin, about 3 miles south of Manjil and on the Shahrud. {Schindler.)
SlAHRtjD(l)—
A stream in Gilan, flowing into the Safidrud and crossed by a bridge and
the high road from Rasht to Kazvin, 26 miles from the former place,—
{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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