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