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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [288r] (580/706)
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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SHAM-SHAR
563
SHAMSlBlD (1)—
A village, about 18 miles from Yazd, on the road to Maibfrd—
SHAMSABAD (2)—
A village in the Yazd district, 63 miles from Yazd, on the road to Isfahan,
a few miles south-east of Aqda. It contains some twenty or thirty houses.
The water is brackish.— (Smith ; Floyer.)
RHAMSAbAD (No. 3)—
A small village in the Hazar darreh district, to the left of the Tehran-
Hamadan road, 4^ miles from Khanabad. (Schindler.)
SHAMSABAD (No. 4)—
A village on the Kara] river south of Tehran and east of Kmangird.—
(Schindler.)
SHAMSABAD (5)—Elev. 6,770'.
A small walled village in the Chahar Mahal district, south-west of Isfahan,
a few miles north of the Pasbandi pass, on the Isfahan-Shushtar road. The
village leis on one of the most elevated sources of the Karun river ; the stream
at Shamsabad is 10 feet broad and 3 feet deep early in November; it is
crossed between the mountains Jahan-Bin and Zangum by a new bridge
(1881) of 10 arches of 6 feet span, showing that a good amount of waterway
has to be allowed in time of flood. There is a good deal of cultivation round
the village.— (Wells ; Schindler.)
SHAMSEH— > . _ . a
A village of 50 houses half way between Kaleh-i-Hatim and Burujird
on the road thence to Nihavand.—(Sdmidhr.)
SHANAK—
A village in the Qum district south of the town of Qum, in the sub-district
of Arda al (q.v.).— (Keith Abbott.)
SHANGUN—Elev. 6,877/
A village at the beginning of Bilakhur in the Burbarud province, 57| miles
from Burujird on the road to Isfahan.— (Schindler.)
shapurAbAd—
Shapurabad is a large village in Burujird, on a tributary of the Ab-i
Diz and on the slopes of the Kuh-i-Gul-i-B_ahar. It lies a few miles t
Diz, ana on ~ T /c , . „ s
the right of the road from Burujird to Isfahan. (Schindler.)
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SHARAFBA1NI or SHARAIANNI—
Most northerly of all the Guran tribes is the Sha'afbaini tribe, which in
habits the districts called Hurin, and Shaikhan of the Bamu mountain, »nd
also lands farther north towards the Laqlaq mounta n. The Kirmanshah
Gazetteer the last information printed, quotes Aziz Beg as the chief. He
died in 1907 and left his tribe in the hands of his two sons. In 1909, the elder
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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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