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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [263r] (530/988)
The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. 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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SHA—SHA
882
SHAHBADAR— Elev. 5,400'.
A valley of Luristan, thickly-wooded with oak trees and watered by a
stream, which joins the stream flowing from Burujird below the Tang-i-
Kalan Kuh. It is inhabited in summer by a section of the Pulandwand
tribe of the Chehar Lang Bakhtiari.— [Sawyer, 1890.)
SHAH BAGH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A small village of Ears, on the south shore of Lake Niriz between Kaleh
Kirmuz and Niriz, with wells and cultivation in the vicinity.— [Dobbs, 1903.)
SHAHDAN-— Lat. Long. Elev. 6,057'.
A small village in 'Iraq, 21 miles from Isfahan, on the road to Barujird.
Generally pronounced Shahdun.— [Schindler.)
SHAH GHAIB—
Name of a shrine about 57 miles from Lar, on the road thence to Furg.—
[Stack.)
SHAH HUSAIN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A stage on the road from Shiraz to Behbehan in Pars. Water here from
a stream. W illows and grow here. There is a water-mill.— [Felly.)
SHAH IBRAHIM— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Zaidan plain in the district of the same name of Behbehan
province, on the left bank of the river Hindian. It is situated 1.^ miles
south of Imamzadeh Zaidan on the opposite bank of the river. It contains
50 inhabitants of the Behbehan tribe, most of whom are darvishes occu
pied in grain cultivations. Resources : 1,000 sheep, 10 horses, 80 donkeys
and covj&.—[F oreign Department Gazetteer, 1905 — Lorimer.)
SHAHID— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village with water and some supplies, 20 miles west of Du Pulan, on
the road from Isfahan to Shushtar.— [Mackenzie^
SHAHIN KUH— Lat. (highest bluff) 27° 8' 5"; Long. 52° 0' 42":
Elev. 1,100'.
A remarkable, flat-topped hill, with precipitious sides, and sloping on
the top slightly to northward, near the coast of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, 8 miles
west-north-west of Shiyu. Its southern bluff is elevated 1,100 feet; it
is visible 80 miles seawards, south-west of Lar.— [Constable — Stiffe—Persian
Gulf Pilot.)
SHAHIR— Lat. 26 c 52' N.; Long. 54° 22' E.; Elev.
A village in Laristan, 14f miles from Charak, on the road to Bastak.
It consists of a small mud fort, which stands in an open plain, with some
cultivation and date plantations close by and contains about 50 inhabit
ants.
The water-supply is from three wells, 25 feet deep and 3 feet in diameter,
and also from three circular hauz, each of which is 19 feet in diameter and
contains 6 feet of water. A camp can be pitched anywhere in the open
plain; no supplies are procurable, except fuel, which is plentiful. In the
hills to the north-east of the village are said to be the remains of an ancient
Zoroastrian town, with houses, walls, towers and arches, cut chiefly out
of the solid rock.— [Vaughan, April 1890.)
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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).
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 towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, 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.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).
Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.
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- 1 volume (490 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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