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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [‎285v] (575/706)

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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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558
SHAIKHS—SHA1KHR
SHAIKH BlBA—
A small village in Azarbaijan, situated in the Murdi valley, 1| miles
south of Shaikh Islam, and 13 from Maragheh.— (Schindler.)
SHAIKH HASAN (1)—
A village in Kirmanshah, 20 miles north of Zuhab, situated in a mountain
gorge. It derives its name from certain Sunni saints, whose tomb are here.
These, surmounted with their white cupolas and embosomed in orchards,
form a very picturesque and agreeable object. Shaikh Has:n numbers
all told, 100 houses.
Twenty minutes further up the gorge behind the village, in a hill called
Darband, is an Elamitic panel containing what is supposed to be the most
ancient inscription in Kirmanshah province.— (Rawlinson ; Rabino, 1911.)
SHAIKH HASAN (2)—
A village in Azarbaijan, 1 mile west of Sardarud.— (Schindler.)
SHAIKH ISLIM— Lat. 37° 13' 14"; Elev. 4,300'.
A small village in Azarbaijan, situated in the Murdi vallev abnnf 19
miles from Maragheh.—(ScAmfc) U
SHAIKH IVA—
A mountain on the south-east border of Azarbaijan between Ushnfi
and the frontier. It is not unlike the Matterhorn in shape The north
side of it is crossed by the Kalishan pass. Some identify’ the Gareschin
pass with one by this mountain.— (Thzilmann.)
SHAIKHLARABAD—See Shaikhtarabad, which may be the same
A village in Azarbaijan, opposite Mlaneh on the Shahri Chai.
SHAIKHLG—
A tribe of Azarbaijan.
SHAIKH MlR BALA-
SHAIKH MlR PAIN—
5 miles frora Burajird on the road thence to
SHAIKH MULLA—Elev. 10,000'.
A principal^ peak of the mountain range of north-east Kurdistan
“nsih^^iS) 80Uth of Saqqiz in Azarb ^”’^
SHAIKHTARABAD—Shaikhlarabad ?
A place in Azarbaijan near Karagul, where there
of copper ore .—(War Office, Persia.)
SHAIKH RtSH—Elev. 5,700'.
A village in Kurdistan on the left bank of the Gav-rud and ^
foot of the Kuh-Hashtah, about 30 miles south of Sinneh. It contains Tbout
is a very rich mine

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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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