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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [448r] (900/982)
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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of a parallelogram, but a greater portion of it lies outside these walls, includ
ing the
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and the chdpdrkhdneh. It is surrounded by ex
tensive gardens stretching some miles to the east and south-east. It is
the residence of Khusrau Khan, a man of some importance in this neigh
bourhood. There is extensive cultivation of cotton, of which there is
considerable export from here, as well as from Iqlid, to the west. There
are some ancient ruins just outside and to the north of the village, known
as the Kaleh-i-Bahram.
The village belongs to peasant proprietors under Shiraz. Taxes to the
amount of 17,500 tumdns are paid annually .' 4,800 mans of grain
are sown yearly. There are about 800 houses, of which 300 are outside
the v all. The population is estimated at 6,000. Supplies are plentiful
and water from qandts is good.
The village is also called Surmeh.— {Preece, 1892 — Arbuthnot, 1905 —-
Cobban, 1907.)
SURMIL— Lat. 34° 28' N. Long. 46° 5' E. Elev.
A hamlet of 3 or 4 houses and a few grass huts containing prostitutes,
8 miles north of Karind on the main road to Baghdad, situated on a plain
about 4 miles in width : inhabitants Kurds. Water and grazing plentiful
in the vicinity, and numerous flocks of sheep and goats ; a number of don
keys about. There are about 500 tents of Kurds in the neighbourhood.
The crops, which are of wheat and bailey, are reaped in June. It is close
to Mian Taq and the road from Karind to Sar-i-Pul passes through it.— ■
(Vaughan.)
SURNIA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 149 miles from Shiraz, 136 miles from Isfahan, on the
road between them. It has extensiva cultivation round it.— (Clerk.)
SURU— Lat. 27° 9' N. Long. 56° 17' E. Elev.
A fishing \illage, 3 miles west of Bandar ’Abbas, close to the coast and ad
joining the road to Lar. It consists of two parts, viz , (l)the residential
quarter, consisting of about 50 well-built houses, each with its own bdd-gir
almost uninhabited in March 1907, (2) a fishing village of some 200 huts,
and a population of about 1,500. Brackish water from wells near the vil
lage, amongst extensive date-groves. Supplies, nil. — (Wilsonand Cruick-
shank, 1907,)
SURUN —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, 10J miles from Isfadran, and west of the road to Sular.—
(Grahame, 1908.)
SUS AN— vide' SUZI AN.
SUV AID AT— '
A division of the Salamat tribe (q.v.). ,
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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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