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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [395r] (794/982)
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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SAI-SAI
779
The chief manufactures are nomad rugs, and a Coarse kind of cotton
cloth, of which about 100,000 metres are produced yearly. The surround
ing oasis produces rice, cereals and cotton, gum tragacanth, almonds and
pistachios, of which the two first are largely exported to Yazd.
The water is from qandts and is of fair quality. Grazing is scarce.—*-
{Napier, im—Sykes, 1^02—Newcomen, 1905.)
SAIDABAD (2)—Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Anar district {q.v.) of Kirman.
SA ID AN— vide MUHAMMAREH Disteict.
SAID UN-
150 houses; the inhabitants are mostly saiyids ; § Martinis. Gardens in
larg3 numbers, abundant cultivation, water is excellent from the river —
{Gibbon, 1908.)
SAIFI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A mud fort in the plain between Badrai and Kabir Kuh in Luristan,
belonging to the chief of the Faili tiibe.^{Layard.)
SAIHAS VALLEY—
A valley in Kirmanshah about 47 miles south by west of Kirmanshah
city. The roads thence to Baghdad via Mandali, and to Sar-i-Pul vid
Kifraur pass through it. It is level in places, but in others much divided
up by low hills. The surrounding hills, as well as parts of the valley, are
well-wooded, chiefly with dwarf oak. It is well-watered and * has
excellent grazing during the summer months. Its elevation is about
4,700 feet. It forms the summer quarters of a portion of the Qasim Kha-
nal Kalhur Kurds, Chief, Namdar Khan. They number 300 tents ; the
other portion of this branch of the Kalhurs camp in the Tirau valley im
mediately adjoining this one to the north. The plain is inhabited from April
to the end of September. In winter it is deep in snow. Its elevation is
about 5,100 feet.—( Vaughan. )
SAILABAD— Lat. 29° 33 N. Long. 53° 16' E. Elev.
A village in Fars, 2 miles nortu of Khirameh, near the western end of the
NIriz lake.— {Lovett.)
SAILUM—
. stream in Khuzistan, which comes down from the north of Pul-
i-Tang from the Mishvand plateau, and passes the old village of Cham-
i-Girdeh. It is crosed by the road from Cham-i-Gaz to Pul-i-Tang,
halfway from Khurramabad to Dizful. This is probably the Lailum
stream.— {Schindler.)
SAIMAKREH or SAIMARA—
A name given to that part of the Karkheh river in Luristan, from
the junction of the Garm Asiab and Kara Su rivers to its junction
with the Ab-i-Zal, some 30 miles north-north-west of Dizful. From
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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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