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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [347r] (698/988)
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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SIM—SIR
966
SIMAIDEH—m/e GARGAR (AB-1-J.
SIMAIRAT—
A division of the Salamat tribe {q. v.).
SIMAKAN— Lat. 30° 24' N.; Long. 53° 30' E.; Elev.
A village in Ears, situated north of Shiraz, on the road from Bavanat to
Uadrabad, lo mdes north-north-east of the latter. It is clustered round a
tower oil the top of a detached rock in the centre of a narrow valley
. ater 18 obtained from a stream of the same name, which enters the Pulvar
nver; also from springs in the neighbourhood. It produces rice, wheat a®I
barley, and has some gardens the oranges of which are very good. The
population is said to consist of some 300 families.— {Blackman — Belly)
SIMAYlNl—Vulgar name of Ismail.
SIMICH—
A village near the river Shatait {q. v .).
SIMM KUN (?)— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place in Ears, 94$ miles south-east of Shiraz, on the road to
Lingeh. {Belli/.)
SIMRAN —Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in Ears inhabited by the Imam Quli Khan of Qashqai Iliats —
—{Mac Ivor.)
SlNEII SAFID— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,400'
A pass in Ears between the Dasht-i-Arjan and the Khan-Zinian. It
lies some 36 miles west of Shiraz. The ascent is easy, and there is a good
view from the top of the Kuh-i-Tuskar and of the drainage of the Kara
Aghach valley east of it. The surrounding hills are covered with thorn
trees, wild pear, apple, plum and barberry trees.— {Mac Greaor—Curzon
1889, Neiocomen, 1905.)
SINICH —Lat. Long. Elev.
r A halting-place in Ears, six stages from Shiraz, on the eastern road to
Yazd.— {MacGregor.)
SINJABI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A tribe of the Dilfan group in Luristan {q. v .).
SINJETU— Lat. Long. Elev.
A small hamlet in Kirman, about 228 miles from SaMabad, on the road
to Kirman. Close to it are the ruins of a red brick imam-zddeh ( J)ohh*
1902.) ‘ 1 ’
SIRA— vide (AB-I-DIZ).
SIRAJ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Ears, 100 miles east of Shiraz, on south bank of lake Niriz.
It has a mud fort and §ome cultivation round it.— {K. Abbott)
SlRAK— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,720'.
An Armenian village in the Chehar Mahal district, 54 miles from Isfahan
on the road to Shushtar, Qehfarukh being 9 miles distant. Supplies are
Pt. II. 3 x
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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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