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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [300r] (604/706)
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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SURA—SURK
587
SURAJ—
A village in Shahrizur on the border of Kirmanshah.
of Laneh Kalan, on the road to Sulaimanieh—(ifrcA )
SURAT—
It is one stage north
A large village in the Bandpai buluk of the Barfarush division of Mazan-
daran 11 miles from San, on the road to Astrabad by Pul-i-Nikah
SURCHAR—
roaa to
A village in Kurdistan about 30 miles south of Sinneh on the
Kirmanshah and on the eastern slope of the Dibla Kuh. It is said to con
tain about 40 houses, to be well watered by a stream, and to possess large
groves and gardens.—(Faw^Aaw.) 1 8
SURKAN—
A small village, 40 miles from Ispahan on the road to Yazd
are good, but there is little cultivation.—(Preece 1892 )
SURKH—
The houses
A village in the Yaghmish plain, Yazd, situated
ed hill to which it gives its name.— (Preece, 1892.)
SURKHAB—
on the slopes of an isolat-
A village to left of the road from Tehran to Kazvin. a few miles beyond
banqurabad— (Schindler.) J
SURKHABAD (1)—
A village in the Hamadan district, 20 miles east by north of the town
It is a small village of about fifty inhabitants, situated in a fertile and well
wooded plain.— (Taylor; Morier.)
SURKHABAD (2)—
A "village, 8 miles f om Hamadan, on the road to Tehran. It has a ponula
tion of 500 souls. It is situated on a stream of the same name which is
crossed by a four-arched bridge.—(P.P, Taylor ; Schindler 1877 )
SURKHAMIL—
A pass in Kirmanshah crossing the Sambala range, three stages south
west of Zuhab on the road to Shushtar.—(fiawlinson.)
SURKHAN, or SAGHlN—
A village, standing in the midst of cultivation, and with supplies of all
kinds, between Yazd and Pusht-i-Badam.— (Christie.)
SURKHANI—
A river in Mazandaran, flowing into the Caspian between Rud-i-Sar and
Shir-Rud. It is a shallow stream in the winter.—(fioZmes.) It marks the
frontier between Gilan and Tunakabun.— (Rabino.)
SURKHARABAD—
A ruined village in the Damghan district, 15 miles from Ahuan and 6 ?
miles from Kusha.— (Schindler.) *
SURKAUL (1)—
A small village in the Marlvan district. Its name means red hill.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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