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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [334r] (686/820)
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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SAlDABAD (No. 1)- ^ . •
A village containing 100 families, between Rashidabad and Nishapur m
Kborasan.— {H. M. Temple.^
SAlDABAD (No. 2) or KALATEH-I-SA^DIBAD—
A small hamlet containing 10 families, in the Isfarain district of Khora
san.— {H. M. Temple.)
SAlDABAD (No. 3)—
A village in Khorsran o f some 50 houses, 28
Meshed, to the east of the Meshed -Herat road,
barls (Hazaras).— (Sykes, 1905.)
miles south-south-east of
The inhabitants are Bar-
SAlDABAD (No. 4)— _ _ m
A v iHaue in Khora an on the road between Kliaf and Turbat-i-Haidan
27 miles from the former and 444 miles from the latter. It contains 30
houses and 70 inhabitants, and possesses 40 cattle, 2,000 sheep and goats..
The annual production of wheat and barley in ordinary years (f wheat,
| barley) is about 135 Indian maunds. Water-supply from a kanz.—
(C. Wanliss, August 1903.)
SAID IN—
See Saiyidabad, No. 3.
SAIDUN—
See Saiyidabad, No. 3.
SAIN—
A fort in Kurdish Khorasan, on the road from Kalat to Darreh Gaz, about
7 miles west of the Zangalanlu nver.— {MacGregor.)
SAIR—
A village containing 40 families, on the right bank of the stream going
to Firang, in the Kuhsar sub-division of Astarabad—(Maclean.)
SAIYIDABAD (No. L)—
A village in Khorasan, 1 mile east of Meshed.—(MacGregor.)
SAIYIDABAD (No. 2)—
A village 11 miles from Meshed,, to the right of the road to Kuchan on
the Kasha! Rud river. Close to it are the ruins of Kakhka,—(ScMndlev.)
SAIYIDABAD (No. 3), SAlDABAD, SAIYIDEH, SAID AN or SAIDtTN—
Lat. 36° 45' 6" ; Long. 58° 57' 45" {Lemm) ; E^ev. 3,911'.—{Schindler.)
A large and prosperous village in north-eastern Khorasan, 756 miles
from Meshed on the road to Kuchan, and about 5 miles south of Radkan.
It is situated on a fine expanse of pasture land at the head of a marsh
draining into the Kashaf Rud. The marsh lands apparently extend
a considerable distance north-west of Saiyidabad and arc full of springs,
the water of which is said to form the main source of the Kashaf Rud.
There is no river to the south of Saiyidabad.
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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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- 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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