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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [289r] (582/706)
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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SHARI—SHlEV
565
Administration .—The government of the district is entrusted to the ruling
chief of the Sharafbainl tribe. When the Persian Government existed
the district was a sub-section of Zuhab, itself a sub-province of Kirman-
shah.
Communications .—The Sharafbaim country is far enough north to have
lost touch with Qasr-i-Shmn in commercial matters, and to look to the better
supplied markets of Sulaimanieh and Halabja for its necessities. Moreover
'the frontier here being unprotected by the Turks and Persians, goods pass
without any customs’ fees. Consequently the roads leading from Hurin
north are the most used, though the most difficult. There are recognized
routes to the south, which, leading from various parts of the Sharafbainl
country, all meet at Chia Surkh and there follow the Chia Surkh road to
Qasr-i-Shirin. Routes from the west to the east are only passable for lightly
laden beasts or persons on foot, except for the road through Darvand-i-Hul
at the extreme south of the country, which, however, is very rough and bad
— {Soane, 1913). ■
SHARIFABAD (1)—Lat. 36° 12' 17";’'Long. 50° 10' 0". Elev. 4,787'.
A village 8 miles from Kazvin, on the road from Tehran.—(Lmm.)
SHARIFABAD (2)—
A large village with a newly built caravansarai, 29 miles from Tehran on the
road to Meshed.— {Schindler.)
SHARlFABAD (3)—
A village on the eastern slopes of the Tajar Kuh, west-south-west of
Daulatabad Malayar.— {Schindler.)
SHARlFABAD (4)—
A village of 100 houses, 6 miles north of Daulatabad Malayar.— {Schind
ler.)
SHARlFABAD (5)—
A village 44J miles from Kazvin, to the left of the post-road thence to
Tabriz and on the Abhar river.— {Schindler.)
SHARlFABAD ( 6 )—
A village of 100 families, 50 Parsis and 50 Muhammadans, on the road
from Ardakan to Yazd.— {Sykes.)
SHARlNABAD—
A village 2 stages south-west of Tehran, on the road to Hamadan
— {Morier.)
SHARUK—
A river separating Azarbaljan from Ardalan.
SHARVAK—
A hamlet of five houses in Ardalan with a new caravansarai on the left
of the Tabriz-Kirmanshah road, about 98 miles from the latter place and 5
south of Khusruabad.— {Napier.)
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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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