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	SEISTAN - LoveToKnow Article on SEISTAN
		Seistan becomes a promontory connected with the desert south of the Helmund by that isthmus alone.
		T~iey are diverted by means of a large band or dam, known indifferently as the Amir~s; the Seistan or the Kuhak band It is constructed of horizontally laid tamarisk branches, earth and perpendicular stakes, and protected from damage by a fort on the left and a tower on the right bank of the river.
		The inhabitants of Seistan are mainly composed of Kaianis, descendants of the ancient rulers of the land; Sarbandis and Shahrakis, tribes supposed to have consisted originally of immigrants from western Persia; and Baluchis of the Nharui and Sanjurani (Toki) clans.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEISTAN.htm (1975 words)

	Seistan Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seistan Force, originally called East Persia Cordon, was a force of British Indian Army troops set up to prevent enemy infiltration from Persia into Afghanistan during World War I.
		Following the Revolution in Russia, the Malleson Mission was sent to Trans-Caspia and the Seistan Force became the Lines of Communication for the Mission from September 1918 under the orders of the 4th (Quetta) Division.
		With the withdrawal of the force from Trans-Caspia, the troops in Persia were withdrawn and the last elements left in November 1920.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seistan_Force (703 words)

	HELMUND - LoveToKnow Article on HELMUND
		About the parallel of 330 N. it enters the Zamindawar province which lies to the N.W. of Karfdahar, and thenceforward it is a wellmapped river to its termination in the lake of Seistan.
		In this latter part of its course it forms the boundary between Afghan and Persian Seistan, and owinf to constant changes in its bed and the swampy nature of it~ borders it has been a fertile source of frontier squabbles.
		Persiar Seistan was once highly cultivated by means of a great systefi of canal irrigation; but for centuries, since the country wa~ devastated by Timur, it has been a barren, treeless waste 0 1 flat alluvial plain.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HELMUND.htm (482 words)

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		Seistan had been built at the yard of John Readhead and Sons Ltd, South Shields for Strick Line Ltd in 1957.
		Seistan had loaded a general cargo in Liverpool and at the Millwall Dock in London before proceeding down river to Cliffe to load 156 tons of commercial explosives.
		There is no doubt that the Toe Puff caused the fire on Seistan in fact her sister ship Karagistan suffered from similar fires involving the same material and all four cases were thrown overboard on the 30th of April.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /seistan.html (1340 words)

	Seistan
		The modern Seistan may be said to comprise three main depressions, which, according to the season of the year and the extent of the spring floods, are converted alternately into lakes, swamps, or dry land.
		Seistan emerges into the clearer light of ascertained history in the time of Alexander the Great, when it was known as Drangiana (identical with the land of the Herodotean Sarangians).
		Under the Sassanian monarchs Seistan was a flourishing centre of the Zoroastrian worship, and hither came the last sovereign of that dynasty, Yezdijird, flying from the victorious Arabs on his way to his fate at Aferv.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/Seistan.htm (1351 words)

	Afghanistan - Introduction. Surface Geography.
		This territory corresponds fairly to the aggregate of the ancient provinces of Aria (Heart), Drangiana (Seistan), the region of the Paropamisadoe (Kabul), and Arachosia (Kandahar), with Gandaritis (Peshawar and Yuzufzai).
		Thus the whole breadth of Biluchistan, the ancient Gedrosia, a dry region occupying 5° of latitude, intervenes between Afghanistan and the sea.
		The Afghans themselves make a broad distinction between Kabul, meaning thereby the whole basin of the Kabul river, and the rest of their country, excluding the former from the large and vague term KHORASAN, under which they consider the rest to be comprehended.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFG/afghanistan-01.html (1122 words)

	.::. Balochistan Online - balochistan national network ™ - baloch online Articles .::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Seistan ruled by Sanjrani chiefs was the vassal of the Khanate until 1882.
		The final demarcation of Seistan took place in 19O4 by the British Commissioner, Sir McMahon, but the historical right of the Khanate and the principle of the right to self-determination were ignored.
		The partition of Seistan was unjust because Seistan was autonomous and the majority of the population, which was Baluch, recognized the Khan as their suzerain.
	www.balochonline.com /History/BaluchNationalism.asp (1914 words)

	20030620: HDS feed to/from seistan (cont.)
		Since the earlier email, I noticed that sirocco is ingesting HDS from both datoo and unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu, and that the majority of the HDS data it is receiving is from unidata2.ssec.wisc.edu.
		This tells me -- assuming that seistan and sirocco are really on the same subnet and not separated by any routers/switches -- that there is no problem in getting HDS data into SRCC, at least to sirocco.
		This would tell us if the problem is isolated to seistan, or if it is associated with all outbound traffic from either srcc.lsu.edu or lsu.edu.
	www.unidata.ucar.edu /support/help/MailArchives/idd/msg02960.html (429 words)

	Iranica.com - HELMAND RIVER
		Goldsmid estimated that "Seistan Proper" had a fixed population of 35,000 and a nomadic population of 10,000.
		Goldsmid concluded that "the allegiance of Seistan was of a feudal nature," and the loyalty of its tribes to either Persia or Afghanistan was fleeting.
		In the spring of 1883, the Qajar Foreign Minister complained that the Afghans had diverted the Helmand into Afghanistan by the construction of the ˆamæiri dam, and urged that "an officer with deputed authority survey and examine the country and determine the position of the Goldsmid line." After some further correspondence, the matter was dropped.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v12f2/v12f2026d.html (2459 words)

	TurkoTek Discussion Forums - A Well-Designed Salon, Worth Taking On
		Murray Eiland, who has traveled in Seistan told me of the shape of their houses as did Jerry Anderson, privately, subsequent to the interview in HALI 76 in response to this very query.
		You are also correct that within Seistan itself, some differences in palette and design occur that seem to be suggest different groups.
		For example, there is a corroded blue dye that occurs in some weavings, not all from Seistan, and it is a colour that, in my experience, is confined ONLY to this area as I have not seen it in Khorassan weavings.
	www.turkotek.com /salon_00098/s98t2.htm (8801 words)

	Wetlands
		Northwest of the Hindu Kush, the land slopes rapidly to as low as 350 m on the plains of the Amu Darya (Oxus) River on the Tadzhikistan border, and 200 m in the fertile valley of the Hari Rud, towards the border with Turkmenistan.
		Koning and Dijksen, 1971; Koning and Walmsley, 1972 and 1973), and the Hamun-i Puzak was surveyed from the air in January 1976 as part of a joint aerial survey of the wetlands of the Seistan Basin involving the Afghani Directorate of Wildlife and National Parks and the Iranian Department of Environment (Petocz et al., 1976).
		However, it is the first of the three hamuns in the Seistan Basin to fill during periods of flooding, and probably never dries out completely, even during the severest droughts.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /afghanistan/Wetlands.htm (11325 words)

	BirdLife - Afghanistan. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Seistan basin is dominated by salt plains but formerly drained several major rivers flowing from the Hindu Kush.
		Hamuni-Puzak, in the Seistan basin in the extreme south-west, may support as many as 1,000.000 waterfowl in winter, as well as a resident population of the globally threatened Mar- maronettu angustirostris of some hundreds of pairs.
		Afghanistan is not renowned for its wetlands, but the formerly extensive lakes, scrub woodland and reedbeds of the Seistan basin in the south-west of the country must have once been an ornithological paradise.
	www.birdlifemed.org /Contries/afghanistan/afghanistan.html (2118 words)

	20030623: HDS feed to/from seistan (cont.)
		Latencies from seistan to zero.unidata.ucar.edu have consistently ranged up to 6000 seconds since I setup the feed last week.
		Now, if the latencies are the same from datoo, sirocco, and seistan it really is telling us that something in the domain is causing the latency increase.
		The latencies to seistan being small is definitely good, but this is not the problem.
	www.unidata.ucar.edu /support/help/MailArchives/idd/msg02962.html (452 words)

	Afghanan Dot Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was during one such encounter that an arrow pierced his right leg, a wound which caused him to limp for the rest of his life for which his detractors nicknamed him Timur-i-Lang, "Timur the Lame," or Tamerlane.
		Timur soon tired of the petty rebellions in Seistan and returned to the grander contests of the north where fortune favored him.
		Today Kandaharis speak with pride of Seistan's ancient prosperity: "Once there were so many fine buildings and palaces that one could easily walk from Bost to Zaranj on the rooftops without once touching the ground." Medieval geographies speak of its remarkable prosperity, calling it the "garden of Asia" and the "granary of the East".
	www.afghanan.net /afghanistan/timorids.htm (1092 words)

	A Directory of Wetlands in the Middle East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Much the largest lake system is the Hamun-i Puzak, one of a group of three large freshwater lakes in the Seistan Basin, an inland drainage basin surrounded by desert on the border with Iran.
		Koning and Dijksen, 1971; Koning and Walmsley, 1972 and 1973), and the Hamun-i Puzak was surveyed from the air in January 1976 as part of a joint aerial survey of the wetlands of the Seistan Basin involving the Afghani Directorate of Wildlife and National Parks and the Iranian Department of Environment (Petocz et al.
		On the Iranian side of the border, a major project, the "Seistan Drainage and Irrigation Completion and Rehabilitation Project", is currently being developed, and if it goes ahead, could result in a general lowering of water levels throughout the Hamun-i Puzak.
	www.wetlands.org /inventory&/MiddleEastDir/AFGHANISTAN.htm (11641 words)

	DAWN OF RELIGIONS IN THE PARADISE ON EARTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The tradition regarding his birth is extremely tenuous - he is said to have been born in Raga, which is usually equated with medieval Rayy near Teheran, and then migrated to the East but most scholars are now agreed that he lived and taught in Eastern Iran.
		Frye writes, "One may guess that he was active in the Herat area with connections south to Seistan, east to Bactria (Balkh) and north to Merv".
		Diakonoff and G. Gnoli have held that the homeland of Zoroaster was in Seistan.
	www.geocities.com /ranajitda/dawn0.htm (2341 words)

	TurkoTek Discussion Forums - A Seistan of another color?
		Warps are light ivory, wefts are primarily dark brown (fl) but at least three other colors are sparingly used.
		You probably noticed that the border of your bagface has the same design as the Seistan band I have shown on another thread.
		Seistan would be the area for where this weaving originates...
	www.turkotek.com /salon_00098/s98t9.htm (1803 words)

	Iranica.com - ESFANDÈAÚ
		In Seistan Esfand^a@r sends the young Bahman to Rostam with a conciliatory message tinged with threat, telling him of the king's order, asking him to submit to being bound and taken to court, and promising to intervene with the king to keep him from harm.
		When Rostam, Goæta@sp's vassal (¿a@mel) in Seistan and Khorasan, hears of Goæta@sp's conversion to Zoroastrianism he flies into a rage, gathers the people of Seistan, and calls for the deposition of the king; the people rebel against the king.
		Esfand^a@r's expedition to Seistan, like Rostam's lineage through Ro@da@ba to Daha@k (Z˜aháháa@k) may be regarded as vestiges of an early conflict between the Sakas and the people represented by the Kayanians (cf.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v8f6/v8f616.html (5960 words)

	ALEXANDER IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The hallowed past of Seistan was known to great scholars like Sir Aurel Stein, Tarn and Ernest Herzfeld.
		The recent discoveries at Shahr-i Shokhta in Seistan has shown that it was once larger than contemporary Ur.
		The name is fondly translated as the 'burning city' but a better rendering may be the 'City of the Sakas'.
	www.geocities.com /ranajitda/alex-eden00.htm (601 words)

	HELMUND - Online Information article about HELMUND
		north, and so flows for 70 or 8o M. till it falls into the Seistan hamuns, or swamps, by various mouths.
		Persian Seistan was once highly cultivated by means of a See also:
		Flut, Dutch vloed, from the same root as is seen in " flow," " float ")
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HELMUND.html (1871 words)

	Reginald Dyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		During World War I (1914-18) he commanded the Seistan Force, for which he was mentioned in despatches.
		In 1919, a month after the Amritsar incident, he was heralded as the "Saviour of Thal" in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
		Seistan Force#Despatches, for the full text of Dyer's mention in despatches
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Reginald-Dyer.htm (348 words)

	Chapter 9<BR>Determination Persia<BR>1834-1837
		Finally the possession of Herat could lead to the recovery of Seistan, Kandahar, and Baluchistan, all of which had owed allegiance to the Safavis.
		He wrote to the Persian governor of Khorasan urging him to strike at Herat while Yar Mohammed was fighting in Seistan.
		While this brought no response from the Persians, the British took note of it and it greatly increased their worries.
	www.jsenterprises.com /john/thesis/chapter9.htm (885 words)

	All Empires History Forum: The Baloch People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The interesting thing is that archaeologists have recently discovered a 5,000 years old gameboard in Shahr-e Soukhteh (Burnt City) in the south of Zabol in Sistan that in shape it is identical to the gameboards excavated from the Sumerian Royal Tombs of Ur.
		This may be linked to the ancient place-name Karkuia in Seistan (see the map in the Encyclopedia of Islam) which has echoes in Palestine also.
		The name Shibaa is the feminine form of Shiv(god) in the Indian texts and Seistan was probably Shivastan (sthana=abode), as the Sibis are from this area.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4121 (2652 words)

	urseals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mcmohan cylinder seal with six signs,found in 'Swat and Seistan', unrolled photographically and the unbroken stamp-end of the seal; positive impression of the cylinder showing Harappan inscriptions (Robert Knox, 1994, A new Indus Valley Cylinder Seal, pp.
		Possible connection with Sibri cylinder seals (which show (i) a zebu and a lion and image of a scorpion on the flat end (Shah and Parpola 1991: 413); and (ii) a zebu bull with a geometric pattern of triangles and a circle at the stamp end).
		Evidence for the Harappan penetration of Seistan and farther to southeastern Iran is scanty but includes at least one other Indus inscription from an impression of a sherd discovered at Tepe Yahya, period IV A (c.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/sarasvati/html/urseals.htm (3541 words)

	Saffarid Dynasty -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By 869 he had extended his control into northeastern India, adding the Kabul Valley, Sind, Tocharistan, Makran (Baluchistan), Kerman, and Fars to his possessions; with the overthrow of the Tahirids and the annexation of Khorasan in 873 the Saffarid Empire reached its greatest extent.
		Ya'qub then ventured to march against Baghdad in 876, but was defeated by the forces of the caliph al-Mu'tamid at Dayr al-'Aqul.
		Thereafter few of the Saffarids had any wide authority, though they maintained their position in Seistan intermittently at least until the 16th century, despite Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Mongol conquests.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9064714 (883 words)

	20030627: HDS feed to/from seistan (cont.)
		zero.unidata.ucar.edu 0% 13 13 34 34 36 57 The major difference in routes that I notice is the route from zero to seistan goes through howe-e241a-4006-dsw-1.g2.lsu.edu, but the route from seistan to zero goes through lsubr1-118-6509-dsw-1.g2.lsu.edu.
		The problem most likely exists between seistan and Jackson State, but we can't verify this because they are not reporting stats AND we do not have current contact information for them.
		If the LSU telecomm folks are under the impression that the only problem is between LSU and ULM, then they need to be contacted and made aware of the problems going to such diverse sites as UCAR and USF.
	www.unidata.ucar.edu /support/help/MailArchives/idd/msg02970.html (1324 words)

	Peterwell Afghan Hounds
		Ffion was bred by June Leitch in Scotland, to whom we are eternally indebted.
		Imported from the world renowned SEISTAN kennel of Marilyn Thompson, Seattle USA, our brindle boy "Arson" epitomises the Style of High Order which sets this breed apart from any other and we are very proud to have Arson at our kennel.
		Arsons sire is from the infamous Seistan/Fablehaft litter, that produced so many champions around the world.
	www.peterwell.co.uk /id9.html (293 words)

	(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Previously Baloch dominated regions of Bandar Abbas, part of Kerman, Seistan and Zabol are the most affected areas of the assimilation efforts of Persian State.
		In Iran some of the Baloch areas such as western Makuran, Sarhad and Seistan were named as province of Seistan and Balochistan with Zahidan as the capital city.
		In Afghanistan the Baloch are concentrated in the southwestern districts of Nemroz, Farah and Helmand.
	www.asaappublications.com /bns/archives/naseer18.htm (4810 words)

	Baluch Bag Face, Seistan Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This bag face was made in the Seistan region of SE Persia, made in the classic style with the indication of a pile shoulder that would have connected the two halves of the khorjin (saddle bag).
		Jerry Anderson was much more precise in his attribution, assigning such pieces with this design type to the Sharakhi group of Seistan, a tribe that originally migrated from the trans-Caucasus region.
		The design on the kilim end at the top of the pieces is very graphic and interesting.
	www.tcoletribalrugs.com /resources/rugshtml/116bal.html (134 words)

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