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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [290r] (584/706)
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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SHEQlQl—
A tribe of Azarbaijan numboring some 50,000 families, and turning out
some years since three regiments of excellent soldiers.-(If ^ OfEce Per Ha)
SHIAH CHAI-
A river which rises in the hills north of Tabriz near the village Barkash
flows thence m a southerly direction as far as Farduli, 9 miles from Tabriz'
tTe ^ BZfehU^Srd idge ' ^ t0
SHIAH RASH-
a mss 7000' °f a ^ “ 0U r n , tains ’ over the 8 P urs of which there ia
a pass, 7 000, from Khusran to Diirnan, m south-west Azarbatjan The
villages of Nerl and Hulaneh are close by.—(RV Office Persia.)
SHIAN—
Sardsirs of the ShianI Kalhurs. A plain said to be 5 farsakhs in length
nd 3 in breadth. It is said to have five irrigation canals, many springs
three gardens, 20 to 23 mills. The cultivation is cotton, grain, garden crops’
castor oil It is said to give 2,000 khawrdrs of grain to its proprietors The
division of the produce between peasants and landowners is on the 3 and
I system.
Shian is composed of the following villages :—Kaleh Shian which it has a
ruined fort where old coins are occassionally found, Khwarratavil, Ganj
Muhammad (Gachmamai), Kubad, Burbur, Hulhul, Mir azizi, (Mirazi)
Kha] aka and Zirbagh or Zabari (Zeviri). *
The beginning of the district of Shian is one farsakh distance from Chahar-
zabar From Chaharzabar there is one road to Harunabad and the other
to Zabri of Shian.— {Rabino.)
SHIANI—
-> n ^A b / anC r ° f S 16 K 5 lhGr tn be. They are divided as follows :—ShianI
1,000 families. Nomads and sedentary. Zabari and Qasimkhani, 100 fami
lies. Sedentary.
Tang-i-Shuan, 50 families. Sedentary.
The Shian is garmsirs are at Darband Ustukhan near Kaleh-Shahin and
their sardsirs at Shian. They furnish one company to the Kalhur regiment
^Rabino]^ ^ SarIiang and Ba g llir Khan Sarhang.—
SHIBLI—
Ugl-Toad.^ 11 ' TabrIZ and73} mileS ^ Mi5neh ’ ° n
it ^ r0ad 0108809
SHIBLtJ FORDS—
Shiblu, the winter quarters of senii-nomadic Turks is a small village
.bout 10 mflec north-west of Kizil Qishlaq on the Upper Aras, in connel
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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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