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have been washed away, and their place has been supplied by logs ana
branches of trees, so that it is now difficult even for mules to pass.—
{Todd ; Holmes ; Eastwick.)
SHAH 'ABDUL ’AZlM—
A village 6 miles from Tehran, on the road to Qum. It has a fort, and
is a place of pilgrimage for Shiahs. Supplies are procurable in plenty, as
also is water.
The gilded dome is a sanctified centre round which the large village has
grown up. Yet close up to it the country is desert. Still, the place is one
of the most populous suburbs of Tehran. There is a Persian Government
telegraph office here.— {Gascoigne ; Taylor ; Stack.)
Sha.. Abdul ’Azim is the burial place of the saint of that name. It
is visited by nearly one-fourth of the Tehran population on every Thursday
and Friday. The late Queen Jairan Khanum, the favourite wife of Nasir-
ud-din Shah, is also buried here.
This place is connected with Tehran by a single line, on metre gauge,
total length 5| miles. There are two stations, one at each end, large
workshops, sheds, etc., sufficient for the requirements of a line hundreds of
miles long.— {Schindler.)
SHAH AQAJl— Lat. 37° 8' 34"; Long. 49° 3' TO".
A oaravansarai 12 miles from Rasht on the road thence to Kazvin.— ■
{Schindler.)
SHAH BAND ALU—
A village in the north-west of Azarbaijan, 26 miles ’from Kizil Dizeh
on the road to Khoi. From here rises a pass, 6,800' high, which forms the
boundary between Awajik and Chaldaran ; descent gradual over rounded
ridges.— {Picot, 1894.)
SHAH BAZI—
A clan of the Kalhur tribe of Kirmanshah, nuthbering 600 families and
resident about Kulajah and Rawand.—(Pfotcdew.)
SHAH BIDAGH, SHAH BULAGH—Elev. 3,650'.
A'village of 22 houses in north-western Azarbaljan, 10 miles from Kara-
ziadin on the road to Sufi. The population are half Turk and half 1 Kurds.
— {Picot, 1894.)
SHAHDAN—Elev. 6,057'.
A small village in ’Iraq, 21 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Burujird.
Generally pronounced Shadun.— {Schindler.)
SHAHDARREH—
A village 9| miles from Tehran, on the road ; to Hamadan. Generally
pronounced Shattareh.— {Schindler.)
SHAHDEH—
A village in the glen Gur-i-Safld between that village and Firuzkuh.
It and Kamad are buried in groves of poplar, elm, and ash.— {Napier.)