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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [300v] (605/706)
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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588
SURKA—SURKH
SCRKAUL (2)—
A pass across the Zagros range between Persian Kurdistan and Bibeh.
The road hence joins the Garan road at the Bridge of Astrabad.— (Rich.)
SURKHDEH (1)—
A village, £ mile short of the camping ground of Husainabad, distant
177 miles from Tehran, on the road to Shah-rud by Firuzkuh.— (Napier.)
URKHDEH— (2) Lat. 36° 19' 0" ; Long. 53° 53' 0". (Najrier.)
A village in Mazandaran, situated in the Elburz, about 10 miles north
east of Fulad Mahalleh, at the mouth of a pass leading to Sari. Contains
»ome hundred houses.— (Napier.)
SURKHEDIZEH—Elev. 4,280'.
A village about 30 houses with a sarai, situated 15J miles north-west of
Karind and 4 miles south-east of the steep ascent of the Taq-i-Gireh pass on
the main road to Baghdad. It contains a large stone and brick caravansarai
built by Sh'ih’ Abbas. The inhabitants are Kari di Kurds. A few gardens,
trees and cultivation. The narrow valley in which it is situated is covered
ith the ‘ ‘ haloot ’ ’ dwarf oak as well as mountains on either side, whi< h
rise to a height of from 6,000 to 7,000 feet above the sea. Water plentiful
from streams and springs. Supplies : firewood, flour, and a few sheep.
This place is sometimes erroneously called Mian Jangal, and there is no
village of M an Jangal as shewn on the map, a few miles south of Surkhe-
dizeh. A road runs from here to Gavarra.— (Vaughan.) (See Mian Taq p. 438),
SURKHEH—
A large village of 300 houses, a little over 7 miles from Lasgird on the
road to Samnan in the Samnan district. It has a caravansarai, out of
repair, a mosque, large water reservoirs, extensive gardens, and pays 1,500
tumdns yearly taxes to the Government. It is distant 12£ miles from
Samnan.— (Schindler.)
SURKHEH HISAR—
A hamlet with water, crown property and hunting lodge of Shah, 16
miles from Gulhak, near Tehran, from which it is some 12 miles distant on
the road to Firuzkuh.— (Schindler.)
SURKHEH-KALEH.—
A village in Mazandaran between ’Altabad and Sari. It is situated at
the foot of the hills in a fertile neighbourhood.— (Holmes.)
SURKH KALIJl, or KALISEH—
A village 11 or 12 miles from Kirmanshah on the road to Sinneh.—
(Webb.)
SURKH RUBAT.—
A rest house in Mazandaran on the road from Tehran to Sari, and be
tween Firhzkiih and Shirgah. It is a wooden hotel, said to have been erect
ed for the accommodation of the late Shah of Persia. It is but a dilapidated
caravansarai near the castle of Divi Safid.— (Ouseley ; Todd.)
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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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