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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [301r] (606/706)
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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A village in Mazandaran, 25 miles from Zlrab, on the road to Tehran.
No supplf s are procurable \\qxq.—{B aker.)
SURKHRUD—
A river in Mazandaran flowing into the Caspian 3f miles west of the
village of Farikanar. There is a village at its mouth of the same na. .e.—
(Pushchin.)
S URMEH-KUH—
A range of hills running west-north-west and east-south-east to the north
east of Isfahan, crossed by the Bilubad Pass on the road from Isfahan to
Yazd, about 80 miles from the former.
It is so called because some iron ore employed as Surmeh collyrium is
found in it.— {Stack; Schindler, 1910).
SURMUSI—
A village four stages towards Sulaimanleh from Sinneh, Kurdistan.—•
{Rich.)
SURNI—
The name of two small villages in Kirmanshah in the Bilawar valley about
30 miles north of Kirmanshah city, numbering about 30 houses, and situ
ated close together, on the banks of a stream flowing into the Razavar
stream : they are inhabited by Bilawari Kurds. There are some gardens
and trees as well as a considerable number of willows growing on the banks
of the stream. Considerable cultivation, wheat crops, and some good
grazing. Supplies : 400 sheep and goats.— {Vaughan.)
SURUN—
A village in lower Silakhur, 36 miles from Burujird to the south-east.—
{Schindler.)
SURURl—
A village and valley in Persian Kurdistan, some 30 miles from Sinneh
on the road thence to Kirmanshah. There is much cultivation round the
village.—(Pfowdew.)
SURSUR—
One of the twelve clans of Southern Kurds, inhabiting the country about
Kirmanshah.— {Gerard.)
SUTA—
A village in Persian Kurdistan, between Surmusi and Kara Bakhra, on
the road from Sinneh to Sulaimameh. It lies over the Kali Balin.— {Rich.)
SUTAIGU—
A stream of Azarbaljan flowing south-east into Lake Urumieh. It is
crossed 18 miles from Tasuj on the road to Raushan.— {Gerard.)
SUZMANl—
A sect of gypsies inhabiting the Kirmanshah district, the chief occupa
tion of whose women is prostitution.
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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