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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [394r] (792/982)
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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Long.
Elev.
SAHAKUN— Lat.
A village in the district of Liravi, about 6 miles north-west of Mai
Shahab. It has 30 houses of Lurs. There is a tower here. The crops
are wheat and barley, and livestock 8 horses, 40 donkeys, 5 cattle and 800
sheep and goats.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SAHAL— Lat. 28° 4' N. Long. 51° 54' E. Elev.
A village in the Dashti district, situated about 15 miles north-north
west of Bardistan at the north side of the Bardistan valley. There are
30 houses of Faqiha and ’Amranis, who are Sunnis and speak both Arabic
and Persian. They have 20 donkeys, 10 cattle and 400 sheep and goats
and there are 700 date trees.— (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SAHANIDACHAH-I-ABAZ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Northern ’Arabistan, 38 miles west of Dizful, on the
road to Shaikhan.— (Sartorius.)
SAHRA DAVATIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain in Ears, near Ardakan.— (Chesney.)
SAHRA GACHl DARVAZEH— Lat. Long. Elev. ’
A high, uneven tract of ground between Sarileh and Kaleh-i-Tul in
Khuzistan, on the road from Shushtar to Malamir. —(DeBode.)
. SAHRA-I-BAHRAM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain between Kazarun and F hlian, in Fars, containing the ruins and
bas-reliefs, etc., called Naksh-i-Rustam.— (DeBode.)
SAHRA-I-BAZDAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A plain in Fars, between Fasa and Darab.— (Ousely.)
SAHRA-I-DAIRA—
A tract of country watered by the Daira river in Kirmanshah, some 14
miles south-west of Zuhab on the road to Shushtar.— (Rawlinson.)
SAHRAl FASKHAND or FASIKDAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A desert in Fars, crossed by the route from Mughu bay to Lar.—
(Jones.)
SAHRA-I-GUAR (?)—
A tract near Mandali on the Turkish frontier of Kurdistan, where the
KhaladI division of the Kalhur tribe settle for the summer.— (T. C.
Plowden.)
SAHRAl KARA AGHACH (or “The Elm-tree Plain ”)— Lat. Long.
Elev.
Is a tract south-east of Kazarun in Fars.— (Ross.)
112 I t B.
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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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- 1 volume (487 folios)
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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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