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SAMNAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 114 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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,
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post and telegraph offices, and a
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fine minaret, built in the 12th century . It exports pistachios, almonds and coarse
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tobacco . A dialect with many old Persian forms and resembling the
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Mazandaran dialect is spoken . A . Houtum-Schindler, " Bericht Ober d . Samnan Dialect," Zeitsch. d. ntorgenl . Gesellschaft, vol. xxxii . (1878) .

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