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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [343r] (690/988)
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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SHU—SIA
962
Hr ports. —The exports, inland and abroad, are—
Exported to
Description of article.
Foreign countries
Guin tragacanth and other kinds, wheat, barley, linseed,
opium, wool and hides.
Arabs ....
Made-up clothing, sugar, tea, matches, candles, wheat,
barley, dates, gur, rice, vegetables and tobacco, also
stamped cloths and felt, henna and soap, copper vessels,
iron implements and horse shoes, horse saddles and patans
(mule saddles), goats’ hair rope, givehs, chatiyehs (ker
chiefs), all of local make. Finally rifles, gunpowder and
lead.
Bakhtiari ,
Same as above, substituting felt kulahs (hats) for chajiyehs
and larger supply of barley and wheat.
Dizful ....
Dates, pottery and petroleum.
The revenue of the Shushtar district is assessed at 20,000 tvmdns a year
(between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 60,000), but rather less than half can be counted
on being collected.
Communications, Climate, Administration .— Vide this Gazetteer, articles
on “Northern-’Arabistan” and “Shushtar city”— {Foreign Department
Gazetteer, 1905 — Arbuthnot, 1905.)
SHUTURAN KUH—
A range of mountains, running north-west and south-east, on the north
east fringe of the Bakhtiari country. The locality is uninhabited owing
to the frequency of earthquakes. It separates the Bakhtiari country
proper from the Burujird district of the Mahalld. The Kamand-Ab, which
flows north-west to join the Ab-i-Burujird, rises near the foot of this range.—
{Sawyer, 1890.)
SHUTUR KHWAB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A low height to the west of the Kaleh-i-Safid in Ears, which is said to
offer a favourable position from which to batter it.— {M. S. Route?)
SHUTUR-ZAR— Lat. Long. Elev.
A halting-place, on the road by Malamir and Behbehan from Shushtar
to Isfahan.— {Mackenzie?)
SHUTUR DEH—
A village in Kirman, Persia, on the road between Kirman and Shahr-i-
Babak. It is situated in a barren and dreary desolate plain.
SIAB— Lat. Long. Elev.
A range in the Pish Kuh of Luristan crossed on the Khurramabad—
Deh Bala road by a pass of the same name, west of the Tarkhan valley,
and 73 miles from Khurramabad. The pass consists of a bad and rough
track much obstructed by boulders, barely practicable for laden animals, and
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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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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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