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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎239r] (482/988)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. 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
85S
one Mlrza Saiyid ; to replace the ancient city of Beumidi ; on the destruc
tion of the latter by the Afghans.
The town lies on the post-route between Bandar 'Abbas and Kirman and
1 azd, and has a post office under a Rais-i-Pusht. Caravan routes radiate
in all directions, the most important being those to Kirman (115 miles) ;
to Bandar 'Abbas by the Tang-i-Zagh (217 miles) ; to Yazd (214 miles);
to Shiraz (27 farsakhs) ; and to Darab (28 farsakhs).
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 first two are largely exported to Yazd.
The water is from qandts and is of fair quality. Grazing is scarce.—
{Napier, 1899 — Sykes, 1902 — Newcomen, 1905.)
SAIDABAD (2)-—Lat, Long. Elev.
A village in the Anar district [q.v.) of Kirman.
SA'lDAN —vide MUHAMMAREH District.
SAIDMARREH, on SAIDMARA—
A name given to that part of the Karkheh river in Luristan from the
junction of the Garm Aslab and Kara Su rivers to its junction with the
Ab-i-Zal, some 80 miles north-north-west of Dizful.
The Saidmarreh river is second only to the Karun amongst the rivers of
Persia, and the area drained by it is probably larger than that of the Karun.
It rises in three branches, all springing considerably east of Kirmanshah,
the first, and smallest, 25 miles west of Hamadan; the second has three
springs on the slopes of Kuh-i-Alwand, 6 or 8 miles south of that town.
The latter runs south-west till it meets the former in the plain of Maran
about 10 miles south-west of Kangawar, and at a spot nearly 10 miles south
of that place it is joined by the third and chief branch, coming from the
Guran hills by a north-west course of about 40 miles.
The trunk of the three united streams, under the name of the Ab-i-Gama-
slab (of which the second above mentioned may, from its northern and
central position, be considered as the main branch), winds nearly for 30
miles along the Guran mountains. At this celebrated spot, i.e., Bistun,
the GamasT&b receives the Ab-i-Dinavar coming from the north, and again,
after a course of about 12 miles nearly south-west, another stream called
the Qarasu (passing through the Kirmanshah plain), at about 20 miles north-
north-west of that place. The direction of the main trunk is nearly south,
until it receives, at a few miles from thence, a tributary coming from the
Gurran mountains by a westerly course, and passing by the tomb of Baba
Buzurg. Below this junction, under the name of Qarasu, it runs south by
west for nearly 60 miles, traversing the Kuh Turdulan and the district of
Pish-i-Kuh; and, finally, through the great chain of the Zagros to the
ruins of Shahr-i-Rudbar, which are situated at its confluence with the river
of Karind. This is a very considerable stream which rises close to the
gates of Zagros, and has a tortuous course of nearly 100 miles in a general
south-east direction. In the latter part of its course it forces its way through
the Zagros, by a tremendous impassable gorge, into the plain of Zangawan,

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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).

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 towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.

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 includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.

The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).

Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.

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1 volume (490 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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