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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [283r] (570/706)
The record is made up of 1 volume (349 folios). It was created in 1914. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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SHAHRIA—SHAHRIZ
' 553
SHAHRllR—
A district of the Tehran province. It begins close to'the city of Tehran
and extends to about 30 miles west of it. The Tehran-Kazvln road
passes through it (1910).
The district produces fruit, vegetables, fodder, cattle, &c., which are
carried into Tehran.— (Rozario ; Champain.)
SHAHRIARl—
A small village of twenty houses, 13| miles from Kashan, on the road
to Tehran ; it is almost buried in sand hills.— {Schindler.)
SHAHRl CHAl—
Rises in the Kuh Buzgush ; its system waters the Garmeh district (Mlaneh)
of Azarbaljan; it flows into the Qarangu river close to Mlaneh.—
{Schindler.)
SHAHRIGIRD—
A large village, 6£ miles from Sultanabad, on the road to Qum.—(ZteK ;
Schindler.)
SHAHRIK—
A clan of the Kalhur tribe of Kirmanshah, living in winter on the plains
of Gilan Maidan and Derah Abarik and Raghad, and in summer above
Ravan and Chungur.— {Plowden.)
SHAHRISTAN—
A village in Gilan, 14 miles from Rasht on the road thenoe to Kazvln.
{Schindler.)
SHAHRISTANAK (1)—
A village, more or less in ruins, immediately to the east of Isfahan.
{Preece, 1892.)
SHAHRISTANAK (2)—Kiev. 7,400'.
A village about 25 miles north-north-west of Tehran and a short dis
tance north-west of Ahar. It is a largish village, containing about 1,200
inhabitants, and there is cultivation all round it and in the adjacent
valleys.— {Lovett.)
SHAHRISTANAK (3)—
Name of a river rising north of Tehran which, uniting with the Laureh
at Duab, forms the Kara] river.— {Staal.)
SHAHR-I-ZUR— ;-£S
A place in Kurdistan, once a fertile and populous district: now (1910) an
abandoned plain through which the Jaf tribe pass twice a year. It is cross
ed by the road from Zuhab to Sulaimameh. Rich says that it is situated
at the foot of the Avroman range and that Gulambar is the capital. It
forms part of the disputed frontier between Persia and Turkey ; but has been
appropriated by the Turks, who have built barracks, erected telegraphs and
instituted a local Government. The plain of Shahr-i-Zur is separated from
the Shir van by the Nilambu ridge. Sulaimameh is about 5 stages distant.
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The item is Volume II of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1914 edition).
The volume comprises the north-western portion of Persia, bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north by the Russo-Persian frontier and Caspian Sea; on the east by a line joining Barfarush, Damghan, and Yazd; and on the south by a line joining Yazd, Isfahan, and Khanikin.
The gazetteer includes entries on human settlements (towns, villages, provinces, and districts); communications (roads, bridges, halting places, caravan camping places, springs, and cisterns); tribes and religious sects; and physical features (rivers, streams, valleys, mountains and passes). Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, resources, trade, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
A Note (folio 4) makes reference to a map at the end of the volume; this is not present, but an identical map may be found in IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/1 (folio 636) and IOR/L/MIL/17/15/4/2 (folio 491).
Printed at the Government of India Monotype Press, Simla, 1914.
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- 1 volume (349 folios)
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The volume contains a list of authorities (folio 6) and a glossary (folios 343-349).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 351; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:350v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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