'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎295v] (595/706)

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SIN—SIR
There is a feud between the Sinjabis and the Kalhurs. The tribe numbers
about 2,000 families, and could raise about 1,000 armed horsemen, who are
good fighters. They are great breeders of mules, and have large herds of
goats.— (Soane, 1911.)
For further details see Rabino’s “ Gazetteer of Kirmanshah, 1907.”
SINJAT (1)—
A village of Yazd, lying on the north side of the Khurunaq range and on
the south of the Siah-Kuh, about 30 miles north-east of Yazd.— (MacGre
gor.)
SINJAT (2)—
A village south-west of Azarbaijan, on the south bank of the Gadar
on the road to Rowanduz.— (Ainsworth.)
SIN SIN— Elev. 2,820'.
A village, 20 miles from Kashan on the high road to Qum. It contains
5 0 families, and a caravansarai. It is situated in the Garmsir district of
Kashan.— (Schindler.)
There is a post-house, and good water is obtainable, though supplies are
very scarce.
SIPKANLU—
Name of a Kurdish f ribo, branch of the Hasananlu. It extends from round
Bayazid westwards into Turkish territory, and also occupies some of the
mountains over the Persian border. It is naturally limited on the north by
Ararat and on the south by a range of ; he Tandurak Mountain and descends
to Persian erritory by the Bayazid-Khoi and Bayazid Maku roads. This
tribe supplied 3 regiments to the Hamidleh force.— (Soane, 1910.)
SIRAHBANU—
A halting-place, having water, but no inhabitants, on the extremity of
the Samnan district 128 miles south-east of Samnan on the road to Tabas
in Khorasan. Rizeh is 27 miles north-west of it.— (Stewart.)
SIRINJAKAR—
A hamlet in Kirmanshah immediately north of the Bilawar valley and
about 30 miles from Kirmanshah city. It contains about 10 houses inhabited
by Bilawarl Kurds, and is situated close by a stream, the banks of which are
covered with cultivation.— (Vaughan.)
SIRINJEH— Elev. 6,750'.
A small village, of 50 houses on the side of a hill on the road from Sultan-
abad to Burujird about lOf miles from Burujird. The Ab-i-Sirinjeh is about
1 | miles off, and where crossed by the road is 10 to 20 feet wide and 18 inches
deep, running in a valley 150 feet wide and having a general direction 25°
east of north. The sides of the valley are dark shale. Down stream there is
a village on its left bank at 2 miles and one on its right at 1 mile. Road from
here to Burujird over sandstone hills very winding and undulating between
hills and in places steep descent, but good and broad all the way.—
(Coningham ; Schindler.)