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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [353v] (711/988)
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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SUM—SUE
SUMAR— vide GUMAR.
SUMBULUH—
A ridge crossed by the Dizful-Zuhab road near Gilan in Western Kirman-
shah.— (Rawlinson.)
SUMGHAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of Kazarun in Ears, north of that place and east of the road to
Behbeha n,— (deBode.)
SUNDAYAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Bakhtiari mountains, Luristan, on a road from Qumi-
sheh by Samiram, Falard, and Kaleh-i-Tul to Shushtar.—(df.iS.)
SUQ RAM HORMUZ— vide RAMUZ (Town).
SUR—
A village of about sixty houses situated in the district of Bandar Rig near
the Rud Shur.— [Sultan Muhammad, 1909.)
SURAKl on SHURAKI —Lat. 28° 50' N. ; Long. 51° 14'E. ; Elev.
A village in the Tangistan district of Ears, 5 miles west-south-west of
Ahram. It contains 40 houses and there is cultivation of wheat, barley and
dates. Felly says that the inhabitants are of the Guthni and Jamanli tribes.
3 horses 3 mules, 30 camals, 50 donkeys, 40 cattle, 600 sheep and goats.—
[Belly—Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
SURDUM (Spring of) SARAB (q.v.).
SURDUM LUR RANGE—
A mountain range of Luristan running parallel to, and third in succession
from, the right bank of the Kasagan river where crossed by the Pusht-i-Kuh
road from Khurramabad. Its north-west end abuts on to the Kiasht
plain at its east side. Past its south-east end, the Kashgan flows south
through a wooded gorge. It is grassy and wooded, and rises about 1,500
feet above the circumjacent valleys.— [B.)
SURGIH—A village in Lar, two stages north-west of Bandar 'Abbas, on the
road to Eurg.— [Abdur Rahim.)
* SO RIAN—
Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the road from Mazijan to Kazian, 4 farsakhs distant from
the former. Water is obtained from the stream of the same name, which
is bridged by a substantial brick structure on a foundation of rock ; but
traffic from down the valley crosses it by a ford, 8 to 10 feet wide, and
8 to 9 inches deep, which is a mile lower down : this stream is much used
for irrigation ; only a few springs from the Surian Gardaneh assist it. It
has a population of over 2,000 and contains abundant almond trees.
(Blackman.)
SURISHGAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in a ravine above Chalucheh, whence flows a large brook that is
forded between Chigha-Khur and Shurab in the Chehar Mahal tract, west of
Isfahan in Iraq.— [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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