'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [297r] (598/706)
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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StJFlAN (2), Elev. 4,150'.
A scattered village of 400 houses with many large gardens, watered by the
Siawan river, an uncertain and brackish source of supply. The village is
noted in Persian history as the scene of a great battle between Shah ’Abbas
and the Turks, A. D. 1605 (1014 A. TL), when the latter were utterly
routed.— (Picot, 1894.)
SEFlAN (3)—
A small village in Persian Kurdistan, about 5£ miles from Sinneh, on
the road thence to Sulaimanieh.— (T. C. Plowden.)
SUFIS.—
Vide Volume II, Malcolm’s History of Persia, pages 382 to 425, for a full
account of this sect.
SUFR-MlR-ALHANGl— Elev. 4,450'.
A large village of Azarbaijan, a few miles south of Dizeh-i-Khalll, and
about 30 miles west of Tabriz.— {Gerard.)
StJGHAN—
A village in Azarbaijan, 2 miles west of Gugan.— {Schindler.)
SUHRUL— Elev. 4,690'.
A small village with 25 houses, inhabited by Armenians, 18| miles north-
north-west of Tabriz. The village is the property of a Frenchman.—
{Schindler.)
SUJIABAB— Elev. 4,300'.
A village of Azarbaijan, 17 miles from Mlanduab, on the road to Binab
towards Lake Urumleh.— {Gerard.)
SUJSAN—
The third halting place from Rayat in south-west Azarbaijan to Khol
Sanjak— {Gerard.)
' SUKAN—
A hamlet in the Samnan district, about 15 miles from Samnan. In its
neighbourhood is a copper mine. (See Chasht Khuran).— {Schindler.)
SULAIMANABAD—
A village 22 miles from Tehran on the road to Hamadan, 1 mile to the
right of the road.
• SUE—
A cape on the Caspian.— {Petiawich.)
SULAIMANABAD (1) —
40 miles south-east of Tehran, a village containing about 30 houses.
— {Vaughan, 1891.)
SULAIMANABAD (2)—
A village nine miles beyond Yazdanabad on the road from Yazd to Kir-
man via Bafq.— {Abbott.)
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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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