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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎442r] (888/982)

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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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SIA.—8IR
873
SI AH KCH—
A range of hills in Laristan, running roughly east and west, about 3 miles
south of the town of Girash.— {Butcher, 1888.)
SI AH MANSGR (1)—Lat. 32° 20' N. Long. 48° 32' E. Elev.
A small village in Northern ’Arabistan, 8 miles south-east of Dizful, on
the road to Shushtar. It contains 35 houses and a fort, and is inhabited
by about 150 Bakhtiari andLur agriculturists, of whom 50 are fighting men.
Water for irrigation is drawn through a qandt of the same name, which
takes out of the river Diz above Dizful.— {Foreign Department Gazetteer,
1905.)
SIAH MANSGR (2)—Lat. 29° 28' N. Long. 51° 12' E. Elev.
A village in the plain of Khisht {q.v.).
SIAHPttSH 5.N— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place 12 miles from Zaidan, on the road from Hindian to
Shiraz.— {Felly.)
SIAH SUREH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hill in Ears, a few miles to east of Jireh.— {Durand.)
SIAH (TANG-I-)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A gorge in the Bakhtiari country. A deep rift of the Sabz KSh, on its
northern aspect, through which the Ab-i-Sabz rushes through from the
Naghan Valley down to Du Pulan, to join the Karhn river.— {Sawyer,
1890 — Arbuthnot, 1905.)
SIBANEH—
A village near the river Shatait {q. v.).
SIDAIREH (Village) — Vide JARRAhI (River).
SID-I-SULAIMlN.— Lat. Long. Elev.
The name of a dam beside the Marid canal, 13 miles north of Muhammareh
in Khuzistan, on the road to Ahwaz.— {Schindler.)
SIFLlN (or Sufla) (BIRKEH)—
A seaside village in the Lingeh district {q.v.).
SIH BIRKEH —See Kauristan.
SIHDAR —Lat. Long. Elev.
A pass of Ears, marked in St. John’s map as Sihanr, lying south-east of
Kalimeh, a place east of Bushire, on the road to Firuzabad.— {St. John.)
SIH DEH ( 1 )— Lat. 32° 25' N. Long. 51° 23' E Elev.
A village on the right bank of the Zindeh Rud I7f miles south-west of
Isfahan, Linjan district (there are really three villages). It is celebrated for
its large numbers of ponies and mvAe®.—{Schindler.)
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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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