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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 See also:

AREA

area of 4152 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 74,555. The greater See also:

PART

part became See also:

BRITISH

British territory by the treaty of See also:

GANDAMAK

Gandamak in 1879; the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest is ad-ministered under a perpetual See also:

LEASE (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. laxare, to loosen)

lease from the See also:

KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

khan of See also:

KALAT

Kalat. See also:

POLITICAL

Political See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control is also exercised over the See also:

MARRI

Marri-See also:

BUGTI

Bugti See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, with an additional area of 7129 sq. m.: pop. (1901) 38,919. Besides the town of Sibi, the district contains the See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium of See also:

ZIARAT (" a Mahommedan shrine ")

Ziarat, the summer See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the See also:

government. See Sibi District Gazetteer (Bombay, 1907).

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