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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [284v] (573/706)
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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556
SHAHS—SHAHT
The tribe is supposed to be able to turn out 1,000 mounted men with
rifles and lives in Khamseh round about Zinjan.
It furnishes 300 sowars to Government.
Duirdn .—The Duiran number 5,000 families.
Their Chief is the Qias-i-Nizam now in Tehran. They are found between
Qum and Kazvln and in the Elburz range and supply 200 sowars to Gov
ernment.
They are supposed to be able to supply 700 mounted men with rifles.
Kurdbaiglu .—The Kurdbaigiu number 7,000 families, their Chief being
the Mansur-ul-Mulk. They are now placed under the Sidq-us-Saltaneh
and furnish 300 sowars to Government.
Mr. Rab no (1909) gives the following info"Ttnation about ihe Shahsa-
vans o Azarbaljan, who spend part of the y< ar in the plain of Mughan
and the other in Persia around Arda 1 .il and Zinjan. “These Shahsavans
are subdividi d into the following branches Kojenb^glu, Udlu, Karagasemlu,
Sarkhanlu, ’Alitabalu, Hamz Ekhanlu, Irza’Alilu (Riza’AlIlu), Aqqas mlu
Nmruz Alibcglu, Bababeglu, Muradlu, Zargar (proprietors of the village of
Zargar), Knali ehlu, B< gbaglu/Arablu, Ajarlu, Millu, Yeddi, Uimak,
Humonlu, Jalandarlu, Saddatmellu, Saddat-Zarangi, Sari-Ja’farlu,
Damirchilu, Muradlu, Churbaslu, Husain Hajjilu, Kalash, Mug anlu,
Talish-Mikailu or Janiarlu, Hajji-Khojehlu, Kailu/Aliyuldash, Hajjianlarudi,
and Pirivadlu. Ttie following are scttl'd around Ardabil and do not
frequent the plain of Mughan : Takleh, Talish-Mikailu of Ardabil,
Jehankhanumlu and Begbaglu.
The Khojehbcglu are the most powerful o c the Mughan Shahsavans and it
is amongst them that the other branches chose their chiefs.
These nomads spend the winter and cold season in the plain of Mughan
and the summer in the Savalan mo ntain. To pass from their summer to
their winter quarters or vice versa they have to traverse the Gaduk-i-Bar-
zand, a rugged defile, by occupying which with a small 'orce, the governor
of Ardabil was able in former years to compel them to pay their yearly
tribute.”
SHAHSUVAR (1)—
A village in Azarbaijan, 18 miles from Khwaja, which is 20 miles north
east of Tabriz.— (Holmes.)
SHAHSUYAR (2)—
A large village in Azarbaijan, 14 miles west of Ardabil, on the road to
Sauj Bulagh. It has abundance of water. At 4 miles distance, south-east,
there is another village with a similar name.— (Todd.)
SHlHSUVARlN—
A large village, about 21| miles from Sultanabad, on the road from Buru-
jird to Tehran.— (Bell, 1884.)
SHAHTAL—Elev. 5,400'.
41 miles east of Isfahan. A town containing an Imamzadeh and about
800 housei. There are some pigeon towers close by and a considerable
amount of cultivation.
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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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