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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 18 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIBI  , a

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town and
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district of
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Baluchistan . The town is now an important junction on the
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Sind-Peshin railway, where the Harnai
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line and the
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Quetta
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loop line meet, near the entrance of the Bolan pass, 88 m . S.E. of Quetta . Pop . (1901) 4551 . The district, which was constituted in 1903, has an
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area of 4152 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 74,555 . The greater
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part became
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British territory by the treaty of
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Gandamak in 1879; the rest is ad-ministered under a perpetual lease from the khan of
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Kalat .
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Political control is also exercised over the
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Marri-
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Bugti country, with an additional area of 7129 sq. m.: pop . (1901) 38,919 . Besides the town of Sibi, the district contains the sanatorium of Ziarat, the summer residence of the government . See Sibi District Gazetteer (Bombay, 1907) .

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