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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME II' [291v] (587/706)
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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SHiRVANEH—
A village in Kurdistan, Bilavar district of Buluk-i-Saliseh 8 farsakhs
south of Sinandij, contaning 20 houses. Cultivation; obi, ga -den crops,
opium, cotton. Industry : carpets and horse-covers. There is a mill here.
This village is part of
Vakil
Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator.
-ud-Dauleh’s properties known as Kalhun.
SHlSHAVAN—
A village in Azarbaijan generally pronounced Chavan, 60 miles from
Tabriz, situated about 1 mile from the west shore of Lake Urumieh, on
the road from Tabriz to Sauj Bulagh. It is on the Dazla Rud.
SHIWAKAR—
A village one stage from Baneh on the western border of Kurdistan on
the direct road to Sulaimanieh. (GeTard.)
SHIWI VALLEY—
Is crossed by the road from Kaleh Zangir to Gavarra a few miles south
of Bibian, near which the small stream draining it has its source. The
valley is narrow, grassy and wooded, and has some cultivation. It runs
down to the left bank of the Zimkan and is some 6 mile i in length.—
(Burton.)
SHUAN—
One of the four clans of the ’Ali Illahi sects inhabiting Karmd m western
K irm anshah.—( F foyer.)
SHUARI-CHAl—
A river in the Talish district of Gilan. flowing into the Caspian between
Karganrud and Kupurchal. It is a shallow stream in the winter, but be
comes a rapid torrent in the spring.—(tfoZmes.)
SHGBAND—
A village in the Khudabandehlu sub-district of Khamseh. (Schindler.)
SHG-I-Rtl—
Possibly a corruption of Shahvardi, Pain and Bala, two villages in
Upper Silakhur, 3 miles south of Burujird on theTeft bank of the Tahij.
river.— (Schindler .)
SHUJA- , rr v -
A small village in Azarbaijan, 3 miles south of Julfa on the road to Tabriz.
—(Picot, 1894.)
SHUJA GUR—
A deep pool of stagnant water between Kangavar and As’adabad, on
the Kirmanshah-Hamadan road, crossed by a fine brick bridge of four
arches built at right angles to the general direction of the road, and
a good landmark. (Taylor.)
HUKRlBAD—
A village in the Khudabandehlu sub-district of Khamseh a few miles south-
! west cf Sultanleh.— (Schindler.)
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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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