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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎296v] (597/706)

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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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580
SIZ—SUF
SIZDEH KHIRAN TANG (or pass of)—E lev. 5,600' to 5,290'.
Is traversed by road from Kirmanshah to Kandula, on emerging from
the Zalu Ab valley. The pass is 4f miles in length and runs north-north
west. The path through it follows up the banks of, and frequently crosses,
a bouldery torrent bed which contains water only after the snow in winter has
commenced to melt, or during heavy rain. The sides of the pass slope
steeply up to mountain cliffs 1,500 feet above and | mile apart: the slopes
are grassy and hold thorn and other small trees and bushes. About half
way through the sides slope more gently, and the cliffs recede to one mile
apart. The pass emerges into the valley of Sahghar. There is no water.
The cliffs cannot be crowned or the pass turned : practicable for laden ani
mals and could be sufficiently improved to be traversed by artillery.—
{Burton.)
Stj" or SUH or SOH— Lat. 33° 26' 8". Elev. 7,560'.
A large village of about 300 houses situated in a fertile valley in the
Barz Bud district of Natanz. It is divided into upper and lower So, each
possessing a walled-in Kaleh, flanked by towers. It has a public bath, one
large and one small mosque, and a large caravansarai which was erected
at the expense of Mirza Abul Qasim, the Persian Prime Minister, strangl
ed in 1835 at Tehran. Belonging to the upper village and some little dis
tance to the north-east of it, under a blue-tiled dome near a fine spring, are
some tombs. The water supply of the village is plentiful from a little
stream rising some miles to the north of it, which flows to the Murcheh
Khui ^Plain. There are some good pear orchards, and large fields of
wheat and barley. There is an office of the Indo-European telegraph
company here, for administration purposes only. Mean temperatures at So
1885. ]
January 31° October
February 32° November
March 43° December
April 47°
56.
1887.
1888.
55° January
27°
Jenuary
31°
46° February
30°
February
33°
34° March
40°
March
43°
October
55°
November
46°
{Schindler.)
sObhan— '
A village 11 miles south-west of Damghan to the right of the road to
F rat.— {Schindler.)
StM— Elev. 3,480*.
^ A large Turkish village of 150 houses, surrounded by trees and orchards
situated in north-western Azarbaljan, about 20 miles south-east of Maku,
—{Picot, 1894.)
SEFIAN (1)—
A small and poor village of Azarbaijan, 24 miles north-west of Tabriz,
on the road to Khoi. It is surrounded by a few gardens, and has plenty of
water.—( Ussher; Champain.)

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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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