'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎358v] (739/820)

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SUN—SUE,
cultivated than wheat, and they buy wheat and barley from Tabas and from
Zir Kuh.
There is a service of 96 savars of whom 25 are at Gazik, 25 at Dastgird
and 10 at Darmian. Gazik is a flourishing place, and pays a revenue of 75 q
tumans. The total revenue of Sunnlkkaneh is nearly 5,000 tumans.
Tabas is an old polygonal-shaped fort, with bastions at close intervals,
and surrounded by a deep ditch 45 feet broad. Though now crumbling
to pieces, it has been a strong place.
“There is a Naib of Tabas who usually resides in Darmian, a large
village on the road to BIrjand up a fertile ravine, which produces excellent
fruit, and is remarkable for its magnificent walnut trees. At the entrance
to this ravine is a very picturesque and well-built fort that looks like
a castle, called Furk.* The hills behind, however, command it, and it
has been captured by a former Amir of Kain. It is the only fort I have
seen in Persia built of solid masonry. They are generally made of mud
or sun-dried bricks.
The inhabitants of this buluk are all Sunnis. It is peculiar that the
Sunni religion should have survived here, while the people of Zir Kuh, who
are more in touch with Afghanistan, are Shi’ahs.
In 1747 all this country was taken from Persia by the Afghans.
The people of Sunnikhaneh seem to keep pretty much to themselves. They
furnish some of the best recruits for the two regiments of the Amir of
Birjand.”— (H. D. Napier, 1893 ; Kennion , 1908.)
SUNT— Lat. 38° 12' 0".; Long. 55° 42' O'—{Napier).
A river rising in the Q nan Dagh mountains, near a hill called Kuh Sunt,
and flowing in a south-westerly direction to join the Atrak. In the lower
parts of its course this river is called the Sumbar There is a ruined
village of the same name, south of the Atrak, by Chandir.— {Thomson',
Napier.)
SUNG—
A village of the Gunabad sub-division of the Tabas district of Khoiasan,
but not in the plain.— {MacGregor.)
SGQQA —
A village of 80 houses, some miles north of Shirvan, in northern Kho-
rasan.— {Schindler.)
SURAB—
A hamlet m the Khaf district of Khorasan on the road from Shahri-
Nau to Khaf, between Barakuh and Khaf.— {Sykes, 1905.)
* The Deputy Governor of the Sunnikhaneh district lives at Furk. Most of the
qandts in the Sunnikhaneh valley are the private property Qf the Chief of Kain, who
supplies seed and bullocks and pays the Persian Government revenue out of the share
of Jths of the produce which he takes, ph being the share of the cultivator.—
q,C. E. Yate, 1894.)