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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎294r] (592/706)

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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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SIH KALEHl-
The name of three villages lying near each other in the Bilavar valley
in Kirmanshah, 30 miles north of Kirmanshah city, at the north foot of
the Kuh-i-Baluch. The total number of houses is about 50 inhabited by
Bilawari Kurds. One of the villages belongs to the Valul-ud-Dauleh,
Kirmanshah, and another to Safar ’Ali Khan of Jabarabad Bala. Water
from streams ; a considerable number of trees ; some cultivation and good
grazing. Supplies : 50 cows, 90 sheep and goats.— {Vaughan.)
SlLAKHUR—
A plain situated on the east of the Bakhtiarh mountains. The Sila-
khur valley is situated round Burujird and south of ti e Malayar district.
It is so water-logged that in some places water is obtained by digging to the
depth of 1 foot, especially near the village of Tanjur.— {Layard.)
It is the richest district of the province of Burujird and has 180 villages.
The whole of this elevated valley from a few miles north-west of Burujird to
Hashmatabad is 30 miles in length and about 6 miles in breadth. Many
of the villages are built on artificially-raised mounds, probably to protect
the inhabitants from the exhalations of the marshes and rice-fields, and
also from the attacks of the Lurl tribes. It is divided into two sub
districts—Upper and Lower —and is richly watered by the Tahij stream
and its many tributary brooks ; every village has rich pastures and rice
or corn fields.
Before the famine of 1871-72 it had a population of 26,000 families. Sila-
khur did not suffer by it, and Schindler puts down the population in 1877 at
20,000 families.— {Schindler.)
SILIVAN—
A small village on the banks of the Nimrud where it trends abruptly
south. Beyond it is the escarp, 400' high, of the FTruzkuh plateau. It
is about 30 miles west of Firuzkuh and a few miles east of Arjumand.—
{Lovett.)
SI MIN—
A village close to Zagheh in the Hamadan district; it lies 12 miles south
of Hamadan on the road west to Kirmanshah.— {Taylor.)
SIMINA— .
A village in Kirmanshah about 9 miles west by south of that city and
south of the Kuh Siah Kamar. It contains about 30 houses inhabited by
Zanganeh Kurds. Has some trees, crops and cultivation. Water from
a stream.— {Vaughan.)
SIMINl—
Stands in a valley, cultivated, 1£ miles broad, 5| miles south-east of
Gavarra (Kirmanshah) on the road to Harunabad. There are 120 houses
of Guran Kurds, tenants of the Amir-i-Tuman Husain Kham about half
the houses are permanent; the rest nomads who migrate to> Zuhab in the
winter. Wood, water and forage are plentiful: supplies in summer : room
for camping. An alternative road to Harunabad runs up a side valley.
The crops ripen in July and August,—(.Stirton,)

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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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