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SAMNAN , the capital of the province, is situated 145 M . E. of Teheran, on the high road thence to Meshed, at an altitude of ,3740 ft. in 35° 34' N., 53° 22' E . It has a population of about 1o,000,See also: post and telegraph offices, and a See also: fine minaret, built in the 12th century
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It exports pistachios, almonds and coarse See also: tobacco
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A dialect with many old Persian forms and resembling the See also: Mazandaran dialect is spoken
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Houtum-Schindler, " Bericht Ober d
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Samnan Dialect," Zeitsch. d. ntorgenl
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Gesellschaft, vol. xxxii
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(1878)
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