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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [424v] (853/982)
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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SHI—SHI
838
SHILAU— Lat. 27° 40' N.; Long. 52° 20' E.; Elev.
A small village on the coast of the Persian Golf, 4 miles westward of Tahiri
in Ears.—( Constable—Stiffe —
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Pilot.)
SHIMBAR—Lat. Long. - Elev. 3,600'. ,
An Iliat encampment in the Bakhtiari country, situated in a fertile valley
88 miles from Dizful on the road to Kaleh Bazuft via Duma Khail, tra
versed by a tributary stream of the Karun. No supplies, but plentiful water,
grazing, and fuel (May).— (Rawlinson McSwiuey, 1891.)
SHIMBAR, AB-I— vide SHALLAR, AB-I-.
SHIMS —mde SHAMASH—
SHINAINEH— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village on the east shore of ’ Abbadan island. It contains 6 huts, and is
inhabited by Bait Kana’an (Muhaisin).— {
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHIN AS— vide SHIYAS.
SHINOIS KtH—
A rocky and precipitous range of low hills in Laristan, running more or
less parallel to, and south of, the road between Zangu and Haftavan.—
{Butcher, 1888.)
SHlRABAD— Lat. 30° 31' N.; Long. 49° 50' E.; Elev.
A village in Southern ’Arabistan on the left bank of the river Hindian,
1 mile below Ghfileh. It contains 200 houses of Sharifat Arabs, who own
200 sheep and cultivate grain in winter.—(
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
^Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHlR ’ALI—
A tribe of the Hindian district {q. v.).
SHIRAZ— Lat. 29° 37' 56"; Long. 52° 40' 22"; Elev. 5,100*.
A city, the capital of Ears, by post road 326 miles south-south-east of
Isfahan and 182 miles north-east of Bushire. It is situated on the right
bank of a stream in a fertile and well-watered plain about 7 miles wide,
surrounded by mountains. Rich gardens and vineyards exist in its
vicinity. The stream, which sometimes has a certain volume of water from
December to April, is usually dry for the rest of the year, the water being
used for irrigation purposes. It empties itself into the salt lake,the upper
margin of which is perhaps 12 miles from Shiraz in a south-easterly direc
tion. Five miles south of Shiraz, the valley is separated from an extensive
marsh by a low range of hills.
Troops. —Approximately 600 infantry, 6 camel guns, 6 muzzle-loading
brass guns and a brass band. Discipline, equipment, physique, and effi
ciency alike on the lowest conceivable level.
The city, quarters and population. —The city is irregularly circular in
shape, flanked by semi-circular towers, rising some feet above the parapet
which is bounded by a dry ditch. Both towers and wall are in bad repair :
the latter, in some instances, having fallen and filled up the ditch, so that it
1 is quite easy to ride through the gaps. The southern wall is in tolerable
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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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