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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [340v] (701/820)
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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654
SAR—SAR
SAR-I-MAHALLEH—
A river in Astaialad, miles from Gaz. It is usually dry in the winter.
— {Holmes.)
SAR-I-MAZAR—
A halting-place in Khorasan, one stage south of Sabzawar, on the road
to Turshiz.— {MacGregor.)
SARIQ (Village)—
A village in the Bashtin sub-division of the Sabzawar district in Khora-
san, about 10 miles north of the road from Mihr to Ribad. It has a few
gardens and little cultivation, but the climate is good, and the place forms
one of the favourite summer resorts of the people of the district.— (Afaw/a
Bakhsh.)
SAR-I-RUD->-
A village in the Kalat-i-Nadiri district of north-eastern Khorasan, situated
to the south-east of the stronghold of that name. It is inhabited by 50
Persian families, who possess 100 cattle and 40 sheep and goats. The normal
annual production of wheat and barley is 20,000 and 1,200 Indian maunds
respectively.— {MacGregor \ Oranoffsky, 1894.)
SAR-I-SARGHEH MIGHAN—
A range of mountains at the head of the Bustam plain and nor’-
nor’-east of the Shahrud-Bustam district.— {Namier.)
SAR-I-VILAlAT—
A sub-division of the Meshed district of north-eastern Khorasan. It is a
mountainous tract, forming a section of the range dividing the Juvaiu
and Meshed plains, 40 to 60 miles north-east from Nishapur. The people
are Turks of the Bait tribe, speaking Turk! and Persian. Its productions
are wheat, barley, and millet, chiefly grown in ‘ daim ’ or unirrigated lands.
It is watered by a small stream known as the Rud-i-Haidail. The hills
have no forest but afford pasturage for flocks. Towards the north of the
sub-division is a fine plateau, with a village known as Sultan Maidan, across
which lies the most direct route to Meshed from the west. It contains
62 villages, big and little, all inhabited by Bait Turks {q.v.), who number
about 1,500 families. The revenue of the district is 6,000 lumdns, made
up as follows :—
Tumdns %
.. 1,000
.. 2,000
.. 3.000
Total .. 6,000
and | barley) in the district is
76,800 Indian maunds. Of this
maunds are consumed in the
Sabzawar and Meshed districts^
Land revenue ..
House tax of 2 tumdns per family
The annual output of grain (§ wheat
„ estimated at
Resources. about 28m
country, and the balance exported to the
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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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