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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [243r] (490/988)
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—SAK
862
Luristan ; by it passes the road from Deh Bala to Dizful between Khnsh-
kadul and the Mama pass. The building consists of a domed shrine and
minarets surrounded by low walls; around are some hovels and many
graves, the whole standing on a long mound. Below is a grove of pomegra
nates, and around a circumscribed, but well-cultivated, valley, sunk below
the level of the Deh Bisheh plain, abundant streams of water, mostly
brackish, irrigate the cultivated lands, and the valley remains green through
the greatest heat of summer.
Saiyid Nasr-ud-Din was sixth in descent from 'AH, and his descendants
are now in charge of the shrine and number from 200 to 300 families. In
winter the head saint and his immediate retainers are the only inhabitants ;
the remainder migrate to the slopes abutting on to the Tigris plain.— (B.)
(See also Im&mgadeh Nasr-ud-din.)
SAIYID NASIR JINNI—
Name of a tribe in Luristan (q.v.).
SAIYID RAMZAN— vide GUMAR.
SAIYID TAHIR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Northern 'Arabistan, lying 13 miles west-south-west of
Dizful. It is in the tract called Husainabad and near a shrine called
Buq'eh-i-'Ali-bin-Musa-ar-Ridha. It contains 60 houses (10 or 12 of mud
and the rest huts) of mixed Arabs, among whom are a few Lurs and Kurds.
The people are cultivators and unwarlike, and own 6 rifles. Water is from
the Karkheh by the Harmushi canal. Wheat, barley, millet, and mash are
cultivated, and there are 100 buffaloes.— Gulf Gazetteer, 1908.)
SAIYID TA'MHE— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Northern 'Arabistan, 8 miles west-south-west of Dizful, above
the bridge over the Harmushi canal from the Karkheh, and inhabited by
'A1 Kathir Arabs and Kurds and Sagwand Lurs. They own 5 rifles. The
village contains 70 reed houses and one of mud. Water is obtained from the
Karkheh river. Buffaloes and sheep are kept, and the cultivation includes
maize, wheat, beans, millet, and barley.—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SAKHTIEH—
A village on the east bank of the Ab-i-Kahunak, 21 miles from Shushtar.
River here flows in a broad, stony bed. Actual stream in December was
two branches, 15 yards broad and 1 foot deep. Banks easy. (Hanking,
SAKHUl —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Pusht-i-Kuh sub-division of Yazd, near 'Allabad.—
(MacGregor?)
SAKHUN—
A village between Dopulun and Shahil, on the Isfahan-Shushtar road,
A better halting-place than Shalil, the present one.— (Mackenzie?)
SAKHYID— Lat. 31° 31' N.; Long. 54° 7' E.
A village in the Pusht-i-Kuh district of Yazd. Standing on a bare slope
overlooking the desert and watered by very small brooks. The land about
Sakhvid is irrigated by qandts. The village lies immediately south of the
Shir Kuh range, south of Yazd.— (Stack.)
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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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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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