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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [411v] (827/982)
The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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812
SHA—SHA
There is a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
here, supplied by a spring with brackish and
ill-flavoured water ; also a post-house garrisoned by 10 tufangchis who
are paid by Government to guard the road, and a ruined fort. The place
is subject to raids by Bakhtiaris. There is no cultivation.— {Gibbon —
Smith — Gill — Khanikoff—Gasteiger Khan .)
. SHAMASIRI —Lat. Long. Elev.
A valley in the Bakhtiari country, through which a stream of the same
name runs to join the Duab stream {vide this Gazetteer).— {Sawyer,
mo.),
SHAMDABAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village, 4 miles south-west of Deh Shir, on the western road from
Yazd to Shiraz.— {MacGregor.)
SHAMIL (1)—see CHASTUM.
SHAMlL (2)-
This district and the most important places in it are described in
Volume IV.
SHAM-LO—
A branch of the Afshar tribe.
SHAMSlBAD (1)— Lat. 32° 20' N. Long. 48° 30' E. Elev.
A village in northern ’Arabistan, 8 miles south-east of Dizful. It contains
a small fort, four gardens, a mill, and a shrine, called Imamzadeh Amir,
and is inhabited by Bakhtiari and Lurs, the former being to the latter in
the proportion of 2 to 1. It musters a fighting strength of 200 men with
15 rifles. The gardens are watered by the Sharafabad canal from the
Diz river .—{
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAMSABAD (2)—Lat. 29° 1' N. Long. 53° 50'E. Elev.
A village in Ears, about 15 miles north-east of Fasa, near the road
thence to Niriz.— {Stotherd, 1893.) |
SHAMSABAD (3)— Lat. 32° 10' N. Long. 50° 55' E. Elev. 6,650..
A small walled village in the Bakhtiari country, situated about the
centre of the Chehar Mahal plateau, on the left bank of the Ab-i-Jehan-
bin and at the foot of the Kuh-i-Jehan-bin (43,000').. It is a fairly pros
perous village, containing about 300 houses, and is built in the form of 2
square, fort-like enclosures, 100 and 50 yards square respectively. There
is also a large fortified house with corner towers. The population is
estimated at 800. The Isfahan-Shushtar road traverses the village 12 miles
south of Qehfarukh. The valley above the village on both sides of the rivers
which is about 20 feet wide and 2 feet deep, running between banks 6 feet
high, is highly cultivated and is swampy on the banks of the stream. In
August it is a broad stretch of corn. Large flocks and herds are pastured
herein summer. The stream is crossed between Kuh-I-Jehan-bln and
Zangum by a bridge of 10 arches of 6 feet span, showing that a good
amount of water-way has to be allowed in time of flood. Shamsabad is
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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).
Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; 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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