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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [413r] (830/982)
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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In the gorge on both sides are cut bas-reliefs in the rock, two on the left,
and four on the right bank of the river.
(a) On the left—
(1) Shapur and Valerian.
(2) Shapur, Valerian and Cyraidis.
(b) On the right—
(1) Investiture of Cyriadis.
(2) The captives.
(3) Ormuz and Narses.
(4) Triumph of Chosroes.
In a great cave, situated high up in the north-west cliff of the inner
valley of the Shahpur, is the ancient statue of Shahpur. It has fallen down
in the cave, either from the effects of an earthquake, or the result of Muham
madan mutilation.— (Curzon.)
SHAPUR (river)—
The former name of the Shaur river (q.v.)
SHAPCTR KHAST— Lat. Long. Elev.
An ancient town in the Jaidar plain of Luristan, south of Khurram-
abad, identified with Jaidar.— [Schindler.)
SHARAbAD— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hamlet in Kirman, about 9 miles west of Saidabad.—(Do&ta, 1902.)
SHARAFABAD (1) — vide Khan-i-Kirgan.
SHARAFABAD (2)—Lat. 32° 21' N. Long. 28° 18' E. Elev.
A village in northern ’Arabistan, 3 miles from Dizful and 2 miles east of
the river Diz. It contains 50 houses and a fort and is inhabited by Sagwand
Lurs and a few Arabs and Dizfulis, who possess 300 animals (mules and
buffaloes) and 12 rifles, and live by agriculture. The village is surrounded
by fruit gardens and trees. The lands are irrigated from the Diz by a canal
of the same name, an q there is one mill. —[
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer y 1908.)
SHARAPUKEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A ruined village in the Behbehan province of Ears, 34 miles south-east
of Behbehan town.— [Hopkins, 1903.)
SHARAWAND—
A tribe of the Tihran group of Luristan [q.v.).
SHARDlN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A place in ’Arabistan, not far from Ramuz and 2 or 3 miles above Cham
Lishan. There is a depot of the D’Arcy Oil Syndicate here.— [Lorimer,
1906.)
SHARFABAD—
A village in Kirman, near Mashiz [q.v.).
SHARIFABAD (1) — Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the district of Yazd about 8f miles south of Turum Pusht.
■ It contains 40 houses. There is a copious supply of water from qandt stream
and good grazing.— [Vaughan, 1891.)
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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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- 1 volume (487 folios)
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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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