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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [339r] (698/820)
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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SAR—SAR
651
SAR AS! AB (No. 2)—A village 17 miles from Meshed, north of Thm —
[Schindler.)
SARBANAMDEH—
A village on the left of the road from Sabzawar to Za’afarani, in the*
Sabzawar district of Khorasan. [Maulu Bcikhsh.)
SARBAND—
A low range of hills close to and west of MaAmai, on the road to Shah-
rud in that district. It lies 36 miles from the range.—(-Rozerno.)
SARDAB—
A hamlet, 3 miles south-east of Kabudeh, on the road from Gazik to
Kain, in Khorasan.— [Stewart.)
SARDAGH—
A village in Khorasan, 40 miles from Tun, on the roadto Nishapur, from
which it is distant 100 miles. It is a walled village, and contains 100
houses, inhabited by Persians, and is situated in a plain, where there is an
abundance of salt, which forms a considerable article of commerce.—
(Ferrier.)
SARDAl—
A village m the Bijistan sub-division of the Tabas district of Khora
san.— [Bellew.):
SARDAQ or SARDAGH or SARDlD—
A village in Khorasan,, on the border of the kavir, 45 miles from Turshiz
(Sultanabad), on the road to Tun. It has 50 houses, with some supplies.
Water brackish. There is an abundance of salt in the vicinity, which
forms a considerable article of commerce.— [Ferrier ; Kinneir*-, MacGregor.)
SARDARVAZEH—
A kill, about 9 miles south of Astarabad, in that province. The lower
spurs of these hills are densely clothed with forest. There is a sulphurous
spring near it, much frequented by Astarabndis suffering from cutaneous
affections. The water is warmed by heated stones, and conducted into'
shallow reservoirs.— [Lovett.)
SARDAVAN—
One of the villages of Chehar Deh, in the Astarabad district, south-west
of that town and below the Shah Kuhjange. They have numerous walled
gardens, with rows of poplar and willow trees, stunted mulberries, and the
inevitable Imdmzddehs .— [Lovett.)
SARDEH—
A village between Shurab and Nishapur in Khorasan, situated n°ar
Zamanabad. It belongs to-the Shrine oflmamRizaat Meshed.— [Mania?
Bakhsh.)
SARGHUJD—
A village in the Ghnabad sub-division of the Tabas district of Khora^
saru— [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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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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