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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [336r] (692/820)
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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and west. The road from Birjand to Kain passes this range at about 16
miles from the former town, the summit of the pass being 1,900 feet above
the level of Birjand. The pass is about 6 miles long and winding, the
surface being covered with sharp-pointed fragments of rock. Near the
summit the defile narrows for a distance of 40 or 50 feet to a small passage
20 feet wide.— (Goldsmid ; Bellew.)
SAMAZQAND or SAMAZGAND—
A small village and fort 1| or 2 miles south of Meshed, on the road to
Kalat-i-Nadiri. There are “ga rdens here—(Napier; MacGregor.)
SAMGHAN—
A village in the Jaghatai plain, Khorasan, 3 or 4 miles north of the road
through Jaghatai to Nishapur.—(Napier.)
SAMI— Lat. 34° 18' 0"; Long. 58° 24' 0*—(&. John).
A village in Khorasaa, on the road from Kakh to Bijistan, containing
about 108 houses and abundant spring water—(Bellew.)
SANEHVA—
A ravine or dry stream-bed, 12 miles from Bushriileh, up which the road
from Tun to Tabas passes for some distance, about 4 miles west of Tun in
Khoraean.— (MacGregor.)
SANGAL—
A village in Khoiasan, on the road between Turbat-i-Haidari and
Gunatad.— (H. D. Napier.) Be haps Jar.gal.
SANGANEH—
A halting-place in western Khoraian, 105 miles south-west of Tabas,
on the road to Yazd.— (Kennier.)
SANGAB (No. 1)—Elev. 1,400'.
A village in the Bersian Sarakhs district of Kho asan, about 24 miles
from the village of Bersian Sarakhs and about 12 miles from Daulaiaiad,
on the road to Bas Kamar, from which it is i bout 20 miles. It is near the
Hari Rud, and contains 50 families of Sistanis and Bersia is, who own
80 cattle and 500 sheep and goats. The i ormal annual production of
wheat and barley amounts to 2,4C0 and 1,6.0 Indian maunds, respec
tively. It is irrigated by a canal from the Hari Rud, the head of which
is about 1 mile above the village.— (Oranoffsky, 1894 ; Mania Bakhsh.)
BANGAR (No. 2)-
A small tributary stream of the Gurgan, which drains the Qalpush
ridge to the west, in the Astarabad province.—(Napier.)
SANGAR (No. 3) or SANGAR-I-HAJl LAR— Lat. 37° 8' 0"; Long. 55°
27' 0"— (Walker).
A village in the Guklan Turkoman district of the Astarabad province,
84 miles from Astarabad town. It is perched up on the hillside, over
looking the Gurgan plain, of which there is a fine view. The houses a^e
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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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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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