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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎341r] (702/820)

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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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The transport available for hire in the district is estimated as follows :—
Camels .. • • *. • • ,• * 2(30
Mules and ponies .. .. .. .« 100
Donkeys .. . • • • • • • • 200
{Mania Balcsh; Schindler ; Yate, 1897.)
SAR- T -YAZD —Elev. 4,800'.
A village of 2,250 inhabitants, 23 miles south east of Yazd on the Kirman
road. There are a Post House and a caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). . The annual productions
of wheat and barley amounts to 3,000 Indian maunds, of cotton 45 maunds,
and of tobacco 15 maunds. The supplies consist of 50 sheep and gaots ;
also fowls, fruit and vegetables. Water supply from 3 qardts, two of which
run to Fehraj on the Yazd-Ba r q road ; two are brackish, and one sweet.
Transport—400 camels and 300 donkeys. Fuel and grazing scanty.
Camping grounds are of unlimited extent on light, sandy soil. Mdlidt
is 25,300 tumdns.— (Major P. M. Sykes, 1898.)
SARKAN— Lat. 37° 7' 0" ; Long. 58° 29' 0".
A large village in Khoiasan, 7 miles from Khchan and | mile north of
the road to Meshed. It contains 80 to 100 houses.— (Napier.)
SARKHUN KALEH—
A village in the Katul sub-division at Astaralad, situated between
Naudeh and Astarabad. being 15 miles from the former.—(ilfacieaw.)
SARMAZDEH—
See Sarmuzdeh.
sarmindasht—
A village in the Mahvilat sub-division of the Turbat-i-Haidari district
of Khorasan.— (Bellew.)
SARMtfZDEH or SAR MtlZDEH—
A village of Khoiasan, 11 miles nor’-west-by-north of Sultanabad (Tur-
shiz), on the road to Anartat and Shahmd.— (Taylor.)
SARPtfSHIDEH—
A village in Khoiasan, 8 miles from Za’afaiani, on the road to Sabzawar
from Meshed. The sandy soil is here cut, scooped and honeycombed by
the wind in a manner similar to that to be seen in some parts of Sistan.
There is a good caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). here.— (Bellew ; Goldsmid.) See Rotat-i-
Sar Pushideh.
SARPUSHTEH or SAR-I-PUSHTEH—
A small village in the Bashtin sub-division of Sabzawar in Khorasan.—
(Mania Bakhsh.)
SAVAR (Stage) —
A camping-ground in a glen in Khorasan, about 53 miles from Shahriid,
on the road to Astarabad, and 1 mile from the MIl-i-Radkan. A road from

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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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