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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [355v] (731/820)
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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SIN-SIR
range of Khorasan into the Gifan, which is another tributary of the
Atr ak.—( Petrusevitch.)
SINUH—
A village in the Tabas district of Khorasan. It lies to the west of the
Ghnabad valley and about 20 miles from Kakh on the road to Bijistan.
It has about 100 houses, an abundant water-supply from a hill spring,
and is surrounded with fruit gardens and corn-fields.— (Bellew.)
SIPANJ—
One of the two villages of Robat Serai, the other being in the Sarhad
sub-division of the Shahrild-Busiam district. It has 30 houses, and lies
on the road to Jajarm.— (Napier.) See Robat-i-Savanj.
SIR— Bat. 35° 25' 0". Long. 58° 5' 0"— (Stewart). Elev. 4,230'— (Mohi-ud-
Din).
A village in Khora^an, on the road from Yazd to Nlshapur by Bad-
rashkand, from which it is 14 miles distant. There are the remains of an old
castle here, built, it is said, in the time of Jamshid, and overshadowed
by a high, bare and steep mountain. The village is built on the side of
the hill below the castle, which would be in a commanding position, if the
heights above were held ; but these command it-—in fact, overhang it.
From the village the ground slopes down steeply to the stream, which is
bounded on the other side by bare and steep mountains. There is a little
level ground in the valley, where there are gardens and cultivation.— (Gill.)
SIRAzG — Lat. 37° 35 0". Long. 57° 58 0".
A village in northern Khora an, 20 miles north-west of Shiivan.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.) *
SIR JAN (No. 1)— Lat. 33° 51' 31"; Long. 58° 27' 3*.—(Lentz)
A large village, the first stage from Tun to Birjand and Khorasan. Ferric r
says it is 70 miles from Birjand, 17 miles from (according to another
account, 26 miles south-west of) Tun, and is a walled town of 2,000 houses.
It is a very considerable place, but half destroyed. Water is in abun
dance, and comes from the neighbouring mountains : 260 reservoirs are
■ fed by these streams. Sirjan is surrounded by numerous and excellent
gardens. The majority of the inhabitants are employed on camel caravans,
and it has a manufactory of small-arms and one of felt carpets. In
the environs are many prosperous and handsome villages.— (Perrier ; Wolff.)
SIRJAN (No. 2)—
A village of 20 houses in the Juvain plain, about 15 miles north of
Jaghatai.—($cAmd£er.)
SIRZiR (No. 1)—Lat. 35° 49' O'. Long. 59° 25' 30'.—(£*. John).
A fortified village in Khorasan, 35 miles south of Meshed. It is sur
rounded by gardens and trees, but sufiered much at one time from Turko
man raids.— (Bellew \ Goldsmid.)
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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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