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SHU—SHU
post stage from Shiraz. It is a compact village, surrounded by stone walls
with towers, and massive gates. It possesses a spacious caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and chd'pdrkhdneh, outside these walls. Supplies limited, but sheep in
good numbers, probably 1,000 ; water from qandts good, but polluted
near the village. Population 60,000. Houses 60.—(Ussher—Ouseley—
Morier—Taylor —Clerk—Arbuthnot, 1905 — Wilson, 1907.)
SHULISTAN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A district of Ears towards Khuzistan.— {Durand.)
SHULISTAN (River) or AB-I-SHUR—
The more southerly of the two parent streams forming the Hindian
river {q.v.) in the plain of Zaidan. It is said to have its origin in a mass
of hills to the west of the Kazarun-Shiraz road in the Mamassani country.
It has several tributaries the principal one being the Shish Pir, which
comes from the north of Shiraz. The waters of this stream are exceed-
! in g!y bitter, strongly impregnating the Shulistan and even tainting the
Hindian.— {Foreign Department Gazetteer, 1905.)
SHUL PASAGUN-Lat. Long. Elev.
A village of 40 houses in the Mazara’i district of' Ears, 6 miles west of
Mazara i village. Wheat and barley are grown, and there are 100 donkeys,
50 cattle, and 600 sheep and goats.— [ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHUMBEH— Lat. 28° 23' N. Long. 51° 49' E. Elev. 410'. '
A village in the Dashti district of Ears, 33 miles south-east of Khurmuj,
and the sixth stage from Bushire on the road thence to Bandar ’Abbas.
Shumbeh consists of about 200 mat huts and a large stone and mortar
building, the residence of the Khan. On the low range of hills, about half-
a-mile, to the east of the village are rivulets of good water, and also three
water-mills, two of which are in working order, and the ruins of a town and
ancient forts. Between this low range and the village a broad, shallow
water-course, called Daria-i-Marsain, with a bed of about 120 to 150 yards
broad and dry in April, flows to south by west into the river Mund. Bet
ween this water-course and the hills to the east lie large plantations of date-
trees. The inhabitants number about 500, including 100 men fit for ser
vice, and cultivate wheat, barley and dates. The supplies obtainable are
in proportion to the population of the village ; there is good grazing, and
the brushwood bordering the Mund river affords a plentiful supply of fuel.
There is a good camping-ground here. A road, by native information,
branches off from here to Pas-i-Rudak, running through the hills but not
presenting any great difficulty. The general direction is east by south.
—{Pelly—Ross—Butcher, 1888.)
SHUMEHABAD—
^ One of a group of four villages in Kirman, 9 miles west of Bahrain'
a bad, on the road to Shiraz. — {Preece, 1892.)
SHUR (River) (1) —
A river in Laristan, which is crossed by the road from Bandar Abbas
° ar, | miles from the former place. Its bed, which at this point is of
consi era e width, is composed partly of a limy, yellowish clay covered