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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [‎307r] (618/988)

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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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SHI—SHI
026
length by 120 yards in breadth, made of yellow burnt brick
With a vaulted roof, 22 feet high, and a central dome at the inter
section of its arms. It has numerous skylights, which, with its doors
and windows, always admit sufficient light and air, whilst the sun
and rain are completely excluded. This bazar is allotted to the different
traders of the city, all of whom have their assigned quarters, which they
possess under strict regulations, and it is well supplied with goods imported
from India, Constantinople and Russia. The shops display good specimens
of work in gold and silver, as well as of copper and brass work, cotton-goods,
tobacco, spices and dried fruits, and European tinned and other goods.
Local provisions of excellent quality of butchers' meat (mutton), bread,
vegetables and fruit—the last of most luscious appearance and quality—are
found in abundance. The Ark, or citadel, in which the Governor-General
of Pars resides, is a rectangular building about 80 yards square, with large
open spaces on three sides. The palace within is far from being an elegant
structure; the pillars of the Divan Khaneh, its greatest ornament, having
been removed by Agha Muhammad Khan to adorn his palace at Tehran.
Frequent earthquake shocks have caused much damage to several of
the principal buildings. The parishes of Shiraz have been celebrated by
many different persons, and notably by Hafiz (the Anacreon of the East)
who was a native of this city and is buried in a small garden, about half
a mile north-west of the town. The tomb of the poet was erected by
Karim Khan, and is a plain block of white marble in the form of a coffin,
on which are inscribed two of his poems and the date of his death. His
works are not, as has been stated, chained to his tomb; but a splendid
copy of them is always kept in an adjoining house. The simple dignity of
the great poet's resting-place has, however, been sadly marred by the erec
tion over it in 1701, by Prince Shu'a-us-Saltaneh, Governor-General of Ears,
of a tawdry, painted, iron structure surmounted by tin flags. Not far from
the tomb of Hafiz is the garden of Jehan Numa, known in the time of Karim
as the Vakil Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. 's garden. It was formerly reputed to be the most beautiful
in the neighbourhood of Shiraz, but is now almost entirely shorn of its
former charms. Other gardens are the Bagh-i-Takht, the property of the
Shu'a-us-Saltaneh; the Bagh-i-Nau, the property of the Imperial Bank
of Persia and the residence of their European officials; the Bagh-i-Iran,
Dilkusha and Gulshan. The last, the property of the Quvvam-ul-Mulk's
younger son, Nasr-ud-Dauleh, is now the finest garden of Shiraz. In a
gorge behind the garden of Dilkusha, and about a mile and a half north of
the town, in a little walled garden, is the resting-place of the immortal Sa'adi.
At one end of the garden, is a building containing some small rooms in the
centre and an arched divan on either side, in one of which with plain, white
washed, unpretentious walls, behind a tall brass lattice or screen, reposes the
sarcophagus of the poet. This is an oblong chest of stone, open at the top,
and covered with inscriptions in Arabic. Stack considers the most remark
able relics of antiquity near Shiraz to be three wells on a rocky hill 2 miles
north-east of the city, the origin of which is unknown. They are probably
older than the Muhammadan conquest. The hill is about 500 feet high,
and very steep, seemingly composed of sandstone and limestone. Two
of the deepest of these wells are on the side facing the city, the mouth

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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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