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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [343v] (707/820)
The record is made up of 1 volume (396 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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660
SHA-SHA
SHlHABAD (No. 2)— Lat. 36° 12' 30"; Long. 58° 51'0".—(Napier, 1876.)
A village in Khorasan, 8 miles from Nisliapur, on tlie road to Meshed.
It has water and cultivation, and contains 20 families.
SHlHABAD (No. 3)— Lat. 37° 34' 30"; Long. 56° 56' 0"; Elev. 2,800.
(Yate).
A village in northern Khorasan, 25 miles north-west of Bujnhrd, 11
miles from Pish Kaleh and 9 miles from Shahrabad. It is a village contain
ing about 80 houses, and is the head-quarters of the Simalqan district. It
is the p. opert) 7 of the llbegi of Bujnfird and has all supplies. A force of Savdrs
is permanently maintained at this place as a check on Tuikoman incursions.
The site of the village was changed about six years ago, and the ruins of the
former houses and walls are all still standing about half a mile to the north.
The people say the former village was overcrowded and too old, and so they
moved, but another instance cannot be called to mind in which a village
has thus been voluntarily removed bodily from one site to another, for such
a cause.— (G. E. Yate, 1894; Watson ; Sykes.)
SHAH ’ABBAS— Lat. 37° 33' 0"; Long. 56° 15' 30".
A village in Kurdish Khoiasan, situated in the hills to the north of Chunda
’Abbas. This place appears as “ Shahbaz ” in many maps.— (Napier.)
SHAPIAN-I-GARMAB (No. 1)—
See Garmab (No. 5).
SHAHAN-I-GARMAB (No. 2)—
A place on the border of the Khaf district of Khorasan, which extends
thence to the Hazara tract, 60 miles.— (Thomson.)
SHAHAN KALEH—
A village in Khoiasan, 19 miles from Meshed, on the road to Kuchan.
It is inhabited by 20 families, who own 80 cattle and 200 sheep and goats.
The normal annual output of grain is 1,800 Indian maunds.— (Oranoffsky*
1894.)
SHAHAQ—
A village in Khorasan, 32 miles from Birjand, towards Tun, from which
it is 56 miles distant. It is walled, and contains 60 houses and 100 tents
of nomads, inhabited by ’Arabs. It is in the Kain sub-division of that
district.— (Terrier ; Bellew.)
SHAHDAGH—
A mountain south-east of Shirvan, to the left of the road to Kuchan
the continuation of the Kuh-i-Armutlu. On its western slopes are the
villages Najafatad, Sadabad, Khvaja-alad, Jehanabad (newly built),
Gul-i-Badam, Hisar, Akbagh, and Khabushan-i-Kuhneh.
SHAH JEHAN—
See Kuh-i-Shah Dehan and Kuh-i-Jehan Arkian.
SHAHJUB—
A small stream in northern Khorasan, crossed 5 miles south of Bujnurd
on the road to Jajarra The stream flows into the Bujnurd plain.— (Napier.)
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The item is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).
The volume covers the provinces of Astarabad, Shahrud-Bustam, and Khorasan, or such part of them as lies within the following boundaries: on the north the Russo-Persian boundary; on the east the Perso-Afghan boundary; on the south and south-west, a line drawn from the Afghan boundary west through Gazik to Birjand, and the road from Birjand to Kirman, and from Kirman to Yazd; and on the west the road from Yazd to Damghan and thence to Ashraf.
The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.
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 contains an index map (from a later edition of the Gazetteer of Persia ), dated January 1917, on folio 397.
The volume also contains a glossary (folios 393-394); and note on weights and measures (folios 394v-395).
Prepared by the General Staff Headquarters, India.
Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.
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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 398; 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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