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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎353r] (710/988)

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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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SUL-SUM
972
SULAIMAN (3) —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Balagi plain of Ears. The district which extends from
the Tang-i-Sambar to Qadarabad has been in the hands of an Arab family
for 700 years.— (MacGregor.)
SULAIMANABAD— Lat. 30° 50' N. ; Long. 56° 32' E. ; Elev.
A village about 9 miles beyond Yazdanabad, on the road from Yazd to
Klrman, by Bafq.— (Abbott.)
SULAIMANIN—
A section of the Ka^b tribe (q.v.)
SULAIMANIYEH— Lat. Long. E.ev.
The name of an ancient canal coming from the Karim, crossing the Dau-
raq canal at right angles and flowing south towards the sea.— (Pelly.)
SULAB— Lat. Long. Elev. 7,200' on 7,650'.
A village, the 11th stage from Shiraz on the Shiraz-Isfahan road via
Asup5s. It is situated among corn-lands and fruit gardens east of the road,
17 miles from Isf idran and 21 miles from Hinjan. It contains 80 houses
and is partially walled. There are 30 rifles. Camping-ground is practically
unlimited, but there is little shade. Water is good and abundant, and
supplies fair.— -(Grahame, 1908.)
SULTAN— Lat. 31° 52' N. ; Long. 51° 58’ E.; Elev.
A mountain crossed by the Isfahan-*Arabistan road on ascending from
the valley of Malamir to the north-east ; it is an upland plateau stony and
bare of trees ; there is some cultivation ; the valley is traversed by a bushy
ravine containing water after rain, it falls steeply on the south-west and
north-east to Malamir and the Tang-i-Ka*b.— (Burton, 1903.)
SULTANABAD (1)— Lat. 31° N., Long. 49° 49' E.; Elev.
A village in the Ramuz district of Southern *Arabistan 18 miles south-
south-east of Ramuz town, and 1 mile from the right bank of the Marun
river. It contains about 300 mud houses and grass huts inhabited by
cultivators of the Shahruyi and Shir *Ali sections of the Lur tribe. A small
saline stream flows into the Kurdistan river between this village and Rus-
tamabad. The Bakhtiari Khan has a large house here.— (Foreign Department
Gazetteer, 1905.)
SULTANABAD (2)— Lat. 28° 28' N. ; Long. 56° 17' E. ; Elev.
A village in Kirman, 30 miles west of Daulatabad, and about 37 north
west of Nisa on the Bandar •’Abbas-Sa'dabad road. It stands on the Urzu
plain and is surrounded by extensive date-groves and flourishing gardens.
— (Newcomen, 1905.)
SUMA *IL *ALI— Lat. 28° 49' N. ; Long. 51° 15' E. ; Elev.
A village in Tangistan district of Ears, 5 miles south-west of Ahram
on the west side of the Tagistan valley. It contains 20 houses and there
is cultivation of wheat, barley, and dates.— ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
SUMAIRAN—
A mahal of .the Isfahan province, comprising 1,300 square miles, south of
Linjan, west of Qumisheh ; sub-divided into Upper and Lower Sumairan
and Haft Mazreh.— (Schindler.)

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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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