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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎267v] (539/988)

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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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aanmnioauu 1 ,
5g7 SHA—SHA
Fuel supply-— fuel to be obtained here is of three different kinds.'—
(1) a small aromatic scrubby plant called by the Persians “ botteh (2)
large scrubby plants which grow like the former in salt places such as the
tamarisk and similar plants growing on the dry plains; (8) firewood of good
quality derived from trees got on the hills in the vicinity of Marmana and
Pai-Ghalleh.
The first is very light and burns like straw, but has been found unsuitable
for any purpose except that of lighting the heavy wood. The second is
heavier but has been found too light to roast the borate alone j it does well
mixed with heavier wood. The third or heavy firewood is very abundant
from the slopes of the very summits of the mountains lying to the north-east.
Soda. “ Kilia/' or crude soda, is obtained by the natives from a small
plant growing abundantly on some parts of the plain. The sappy twigs
of this”plant, which the Persians call “ ehshlun,” are collected and placed
together with a little firewood in pits dug into the ground. By setting the
whole on fire crude soda is produced which deposits at the bottom of the
pit in large blocks of a greyish colour and of considerable hardness.—(/.
Morrow Campbell, July 27th, 1893.)
SHAHR-I-RAM HORMUZ— vide RAMUZ (town).
SHAHR-I-SAFlD— Lat. Long. Elev.
Some extensive ruins said to lie between Abrquh and Isfahan.— (d/ffc-
Greyor.)
SHAH RIZA— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village with gardens and a shrine, 17 ^ miles from Mehiar, on the road
from Isfahan to 9Jx\v*z.'—(Taylor-~-Clerk--Hardy.)
SHAHR YlRAN oe BiRUN— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Liravi district of Ears, administratively dependent on
Bandar Dxlam, and situated 10 miles south-east of Geh Zard. It contains
40 houses of Lurs. There is a tower and wheat and barley are grown.—
{ Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Gazetteer, 1908.)
SHAH SADI oe TALASPID—Lat. 80° 17' N.; Long. 51° 34' E.; Elev.
2,830'.
A village in the Talaspid plain of the Shulistan district of Ears. The
village consists of 50 houses surrounding a mud-built castle square and
loopholed, standing on a mound. The village is surrounded by cultiva
tion. Past it flows the Eehlian river, in a stream 40 yards wide and m
inches deep with a shingly bed.— {Baring—Hopkins, 1903)
SHAH VARDt—L at. 33° 9' N.; Long. 50° 6' E,; Elev.
Also pronounced Shoirdi, Shabberdi, and Shahordi.
A fine, large village in the Faridan district, 10 miles north-west of Khui-
gan on the road from Isfahan to Burujird, 111 miles from the former.—
{Schindler.)
SHAWALI— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Shushtar district about -3 miles south-east of Farajabad-
It consists of 200 houses of ShuslitarTs and a few Arabs. There are _
rifles, and 80 of the men are mounted, and the people are noted for eir

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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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