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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [331v] (681/820)
The record is made up of 1 volume (396 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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636
SAA—SAB
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BA’ADlBlD (No. 1)—
A village in the Darreh Gaz district of north-eastern Khorasan, about
3 miles west of Muhammadabad and 2^ miles north of the road thence to
Kuchan. It contains 120 families of Turks, who possess 250 cattle and
3,000 sheep and goats. The normal annual production of wheat and barley
amounts to 4,480 and 3,200 Indian maunds, respectively.— {OranoffsJcy,
SA’ADABAD (No. 2) or SAIYIDABAD—
A hamlet in Khorasan, 5 miles from Shahrnd on the road to Meshed-
There is an ample supply of good water here for a large ioice.—(Napier ;
- Schindler.)
SA’ADABAD (No. 3)—
A stage in Khorasan, about 87 miles from Tabas, on the road to Nlsha-
' pftr.— (Kennier.)
SA’ADABAD (No. 4)—
A village containing 50 families, between Nishapur and Qadamcah, in
Khoiasa,n.— (H. M. Temple.) - . .
SA’ADlBAD (No. 5)—
A village on the main caravan route between Herat and Meshed, situat
ed 1 mile west of Kariz and 131 miles from Meshed. It contains 35
houses. The annual production of wheat and barley in ordinary years is
about 3,400 Indian maunds. It possesses 50 cattle and 600 sheep and
goats. Plentiful water-supply from a kdnz. Excellent camel-grazing in
the neighbourhood, but scanty fuel. The headman is Mahmud Riza
Khan, Hazira.—(G. Wanliss, October 1903.)
SA’ADABAD (No. 6)—
A village in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, a short distance to the
east of Kaleh-i-Nau (<f.v.), with a population of 25 Bakharzi families,—
(Sykes, 1905.)
SA’AD-UD-DIN—
r A village of about two hundred families, situated 28 miles south of
Sultanabad (No. !).—(#. M. Temple, 1900.)
SABIRA—
A village in the Mahvllat sub-division of the Turbat-i-Haidarf district of
Khorasan— (Bellew.)
SABZAR—
A small fortified village in Khorasan, situated in a nook in the hills
2 miles south-south-east of Kafir Kaleh, and about 30 miles south of Meshed
' — {Bellew.)
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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
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 contains an index map (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).
Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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- 1 volume (396 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 398; 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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:105v, 105ar:105av, 106r:180v, 180ar:180av, 181r:185v, 185ar:185av, 186r:195v, 195ar:195av, 196r:196v, 196ar:196av, 197r:232v, 232ar:232av, 233r:305v, 305ar:305av, 306r:334v, 334ar:334av, 335r:357v, 357ar:357av, 358r:365v, 365ar:365av, 366r:396v, back-i
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