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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [289v] (583/706)
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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566
SHA—SHI
SH ASHAGAL—Elev. 4,250'.
A village, 24 miles south-east of Urumieh in Azarbaijan, with a patch of
cultivation about it.— [Gerard.)
SHATUR—
Forty-four miles from Isfahan on the road to Yazd. A fairly large vil
lage of 400 to 500 inhabitants, containing a good-sized mosque. Watered by
a river.— (Preece, 1912.)
SHAYARIN—
A large fortified village, 4 miles east by north of Hamadan, on the road
to Tehran. It is surrounded by double walls 60' high. There is no road
through the village, and it has one gate on the south side. It makes the
best Hamadan wine; has 76 Armenian families.—(TayZor.)
SHAYARDl KISHLANGI, or QISHLAQ—
A village in Azarbaijan built on a small eminence, one side of which
forms a precipice overhanging the River Ahar. It contains about thirty
houses. It lies 10 miles east of Ahar on the road to Ardabil.—(tf oZmes.)
SHAVEH—Elev. 5,570'.
A large village 71 miles from Burujird and Ilf from Sultanabad on the
road to Tehran, ’Iraq-i-’Ajami. The village is of mud with dome-roofed
houses.— [Schindler.)
651 m iies south-west of Qum, on the road to Sultanabad.—(Sc/mufter.)
sheijan—
A stream falling into the Gulf of Enzali. [q.v.).
SHEKAK or sheqaq—
A Sunni tribe of Kurds, evenly distributed over the Turkish and Persian
border, occupying, in summer, the horse shoe of moun ains south-wes of
Salmas lr> winter they descend to the Salmas plain, a certain section also
going to Bash-qal’a in Turkish territory. They also occupy part of the
moun ain land of the Baradust people. _ .
The tribe is said to have split from the Haidaranlu [q.v.), hence its name
Sheqaq.
The tribe has a very bad reputation and lives chiefly by plunder, which
it gains by a system of rapid marches across .he frontier.—(Socme, 1910.)
SHINAH— ‘ K -i
A village of 100 houses of Kurds in the valley of the same name, 5 miles
above the junction of the valley with the Gavarra river. The Sinneh-Kir-
manshah road joins and traverses the valley 2 or 3 miles below vil
lage The water-supply is abundant; grazing very good. The village
surrounded by trees and cultivation. Large numbers of cattle and sheep
are owned ; adjacent lies the village of Muinah. The valley is also callc
Shenah-Muinah.— [Burton.)
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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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