"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [ظ‎‎٢‎٩‎٨] (٧٠٦/٦٠١)

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SULTAN B-SULTANK
round is generally fertile and produces average crops of cereals ; vines
flourish. To the north-east, distant 4 miles, lies a salt lake. During Jan
uary and February traffic is impeded by heavy falls of snow when the
thermometer falls to 3° below freezing. Supplies are procurable; trans
port is scarce and must be collected from villages ; donkeys are much used by
the villagers.
There is an alternative road to Tehran via Saveh, besides the regular road
through Qum.
Sultanabad is the residence of a local governor having jurisdiction over
the mahalls of Kazzaz, Chahar-ab, Farahan, Mahallat, and Kalat. There is
a Persian telegraph and post office here.— (Bell ; Yusuf Sharif ; Preece ;
Schindler ; Na'pier.)
SULTAN BAJl— Elev. 2,905'.
A village and large caravansarai, half way between Qum and Pul-i-
Dallak on the old road to Tehran. Beyond it to the east is the Qumrud
district belonging to Qum.— (Schindler.)
SULTANlEH— Lat. 36° 25' 52"; Long. 48° 52' 20". Elev. 5,596'.
A large village containing 500 houses, the chief place of the Khuda-
bandehlu sub-district of Khamseh. It lies 76 miles from Kazvln on the post
road to Tabriz and some 26 miles south-east of Zinjan, and is situated in
a pleasant and fertile plain where the Shah often encamps in the summer to
avoid the hot and unhealthy climate of Tehran. It was the capital of the
descendants of Hulaku.
<£ The tomb of Khudabandeh is really a noble edifice. The area is 100
feet in diameter ; the dome, 120 feet high from the ground, is nearly pointed
at the top and covered with green lacquered tiles, with which it has also-
been lined, but the interior is now plastered over. The body of the building
is of octagonal form. A cornice is carried round the interior, about 12 feet
from the ground, on which an Arabic inscription in large letters is carved, and
has apparently been gilt. There is a sort of chapel attached to the tomb on
the side nearest Mecca, and the same, by the way, is the case with the ruined,
mosque in the suburb of Tabriz. The material of the edifice is brick;
a minaret seems to have been placed on each of its angles ; of these, only one
remains entire. There is another object of interest on the north side of the
town—a fragment of wall about 40 feet high, and 4| feet thick, supported by
buttresses and faced with square slabs of greenish stone, very neatly cut.
The top seems to have been machicolated.
The plain of Sultanleh is so ample that Napoleon’s Grand Army,
with which he invaded Russia, might have manoeuvred in it with ease ; it
is a great place for exercising troops. It is a famous place for a gallop, and
foxes, hares, and deer are to be found ; but the ground is rendered dangerous
for horses by the innumerable holes of the jerboa.
There p,re some troops permanently stationed in the neighbourhood.
Cheap rates prevail in the bazaar and water is fairly plentiful. (Lemm ; Yusuf
Sharif ; Schindler.)
SULTAN KULI—
A village in Kirmanshah situated in the Bllawar valley about 30 miles
north of Kirmanshah city.