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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [253r] (510/988)
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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SAB,—SAE
872
SAR-I-AB—
A small village 3 miles south-west of Kirmanshah.— {Ranking, 1909.)
See also under ‘ Sarah 3 in Gazetteer of Kirmanshah Mulla-Mullaha.
SAR-I-ABGILAN —Lat. Long. Elev.
The place of residence in the Kirmanshah Province of the Kalhur tribe.
{([.v.) known as the Begzadeh Siah Siah and Mutta Mulla Siah Siah ; they
only number a few families.— [Plowden.)
S AR-I-B AH R AM—
A small stream which crosses the road from Shahpur to Nurabad,
10 miles north-west of the former place.— [Graltame, 1908.)
SAR-I-CHASHMEH— Lat. 31° 16' N. ; Long. 49° 41' E. ; Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district about 4 miles north-west of Ramuz town
on a bearing of 315° from the west end of the same. It consists of 25 reed
huts of Ahl-i-Ramuz, with a few Arabs apparently of the Zubaid section of
the A1 Khamis. The'proprietor is the Muntazam-ud-Dauleh. Near this
place is a shrine called the Masumeh-i-Khatun, erected in honour of a
women.—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SARlDARREH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village close to Yazd on the south-west side.— {Abbott.)
SAR-I-DASHT— Lat. 32° 29' N. ; Long. 48° 52' E. ; Elev. 1,800'.
A fort in Luristan, 33 miles from Dizfiil on the road to Kaleh Bazuft via
Duma Khail. It is situated in an extensive and fertile plain on a river
called by the natives Dunuban. The bed is 40 to 50 yards broad, and the
stream about 2 feet deep in May. There are two forts, one in good repair,
the other in ruins. Some huts of mud and stone. Population 40 to 60 souls.
Large herds of goats are owned and the country round is well-cultivated
and irrigated. Fuel is scarce.— {McSwiney, 1891.)
SAR-I-KHAR—
A tract of country in the Bakhtlari mountains celebrated for its pastur-
a g e -— 8.)
SAR1LEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Khuzistan, three stages north-west of Behbehan, on the
road to Shushtar. It is inhabited by the Zanganeh tribe of Kurds who
were brought here by Nadir Shah. There are only about 400 families of
them now.— {DeBode.)
SARIMA— Lat. 30° 8' 37",• Long. 49° 29' 13"; Elev.
A village on the cost of Khuzistan, situated in a cluster of
banyan
Merchant of Indian extraction.
trees
at the upper part of a height near the Hindian river.— {Bracks.)
SAR-I-MlL— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the Khaniqln-Kirmanshah road, a short distance from the
western end of the plain of Karind, 15 miles from that village. There is
the ruin of a small fort here, situated on the edge of a plateau.—(Taylor—
T. C. Plowden.)
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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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