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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [359r] (740/820)
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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SUR-SUT
691
SURKHIB ( <£ Red river.”)—
A river or stream in Khorasan, rising north of Nishaphr and flowing
south by the village of Bam to the Shish Diraz river. Its waters are brack
ish. (MacGregor.)
SURKHABAD-
A village in the Turbat sub-division of Khorasan — (Bellew.)
SURIM
A hamlet in the Bakharz district of Khorasan, about £ mile from Usta,
on the road to Khaf. It is inhabited by some 10 Barbari (Hazara) fami
lies.— (Sykes, 1905.)
SURKHANor SAGHAU—
A village standing in the midst of cultivation, and with supplies of all
kinds, between Yazd and Pusht-i-Badam. (Christie.)
SURNABAD—
A village in the Bakharz district of Khorascn, a short distance to the
east of Kaleh-i-Nau (q.v.), with a population of 25 Bakharzi families.—
(Sykes, 1905.)
SURUQ— Lat. 37° 37' 0". Long. 57° 25' 0".
A village in northern Khorasan, 10 miles north-east of Bujnfird.—
(Intelligence Division, War Office.)
Suruq is situated in the Garma Khan sub-division of the Bujnurd district.-—
(Mania Bakhsh.)
SUTRtBAR—
A village on the Astarabad side of the Vajmanu pass, leading north
from Tash. It is the third village after the pass, and 2 miles south of the
Kutal-i-Jilin Bilin.— (Na/pier.)
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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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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I'
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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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