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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [393r] (790/982)
The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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the 225th and 250th miles o! its course, winds through the deep gorges and
ravines formed by the precipitous cliffs of this mourreain on its right bank.
— {Morton, 1905— Arbuthnot, 1905.)
SAFID KUH, or ISPl KtJH— Elev.
A lofty and rocky ridge of Luristan, which lies to the south of the Khur-
ramabad road on its exist from the south-east edge of the Alishtar plain.
It runs from north-west to south-east. The upper part is without grass and
trees and appears to consist of bare rock ; the lower part falls in tremendous
precipices to the valley of the Khaman river beyond the Jirlan gorge.
Is pierced by the Khurramabad river, in the gorge of which stand the castle
and town of Khurramabad. Its southern aspect towards the Pusht-i-Kuh
road from the town presents a wall of cliffs, with an occasional rocky spur
running down to the road. Eight miles west of the town it passes north
of the Yafteh mountain, and farther on appears in tremendous cliffs and
pinnacles of sheer rock to the north of the road. It contains a large amount
of wood and grass throughout. Just to the east of its highest point it
is crossed by a road practicable for Lur pack animals from the Chagani
plain to Alishtar.— (Burton.)
SAFlD-DlR or SAFlDAR (1)—
A track in Fats lying below the range of hills of the same name, separated
from Zanjlran by another range rising above Khwajai.— (Durand.)
SAFlDAR (2)— Lat. 28° 56' 17" N. Long. 52° 55' 38" E. Elev. 10,464.
A range of hills in FarS running from north-east to south-east, west of the
Kara Aghach river and east of Firu: abad. The Gur-i-Bahram pass crosses
it. It is snow-capped.— (Stack.)
SAFlD DASHT, or SAFlDASH— Lat. 32° 11' N. Long. 51° 15' E.: Elev.
A village of 400 houses—people mainly of Turkish origin—on the road
from Chighakhur to Isfahan via Ra ; s, 16 miles north-west of Umjan;
it is watered by a number of qandts from the adjacent mountains and has
some area of cultivation ; it owns a large number of sheep and goats. There
is a fort 8 yards square, with walls 20 feet high and corner flanking towers,
occupied (1903) by the eldest son of Abul Qasim Khan, grandson of Abul
Qasim Khan, grandson of Riza Qull Khan, ex-Il'egi of the Bakhtiaris. In
the fort are some 30 to 40 armed sowars. The plains around are entirely
bare ; some scrub fuel procurable from the adjacent hills.— (Burton.)
SAFID HAmGR—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village 12f miles in a south-west direction f rom Ram Hormuz to
Ma shur.— (Burton, 1903.)
SAFID K0H (1)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A prominent peak of the main range of the Raushan Kiih in Fars.—
(P recce, 1892.)
SAFI KHANl—
A clan of the Qashqai Iliats of Fars. They are localised from Nasar, near
Kuh Pir, to Ju Khalih. They approximate 600 families, and keep about
100 mules, but no herds.—(iiW)
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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).
Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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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