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R17path Stein-1

R17-033 Kharg
R17-033 Kharg : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: -3058126 coordinate: lat 28.9109 long 53.3536
NIMA/GNS names: Charg , Cherg , چرگ ,
VARIANT names: Charg , Kharg ,
SOURCE for Charg
« Charg » in {map#1203 in #1241 Wilson, Sir Arnold T., Notes on a Journey from Bandar Abbas to Shiraz via Lar, in February and March, 1907, The Geographical Journal, London, 1908 (Feb.) 31:2:152-69 ~ fig. Country between Bandar Abbas abd Siraz}
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« From Asmāngird we made our way to Fasā by two marches across a mountain chain which had not been previously surveyed. Early during the first march the villages of Sahlābād and Kharg were passed at the mouth of a side- valley draining towards the Tang-i-Tāduvan. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 136

R17-032 Sholabad
R17-032 Sholabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: -3081868 coordinate: lat 28.9113 long 53.334
NIMA/GNS names: Sahlabad , Sholabad , سهل آباد ,
VARIANT names: Sahlabad , Sholabad ,
SOURCE for Sahlabad
« From Asmāngird we made our way to Fasā by two marches across a mountain chain which had not been previously surveyed. Early during the first march the villages of Sahlābād and Kharg were passed at the mouth of a side- valley draining towards the Tang-i-Tāduvan. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 136
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R17-034 Khaneh Nar
R17-034 Khaneh Nar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: -3070654 coordinate: lat 28.8345 long 53.5283
NIMA/GNS names: Khan Nar , Khaneh Nahr , Khaneh Nar , خانه نهر ,
VARIANT names: Khaneh Nahr , Khaneh Nar ,
SOURCE for Khaneh Nahr
SOURCE for Khaneh Nar
« Khaneh Nar » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
« From Asmängird we made our way to Fasā by two marches across a moun- tain chain which had not been previously surveyed. Early during the first march the villages of Sahlābād and Kharg were passed at the mouth of a side- valley draining towards the Tang-i-Tāduvan. There the track, after leading eastwards across the bare glacis of the hills, turned into a small open valley, where were some cairns on higher ground. Then, in a wide open trough below white gypsum hills, a ruined sarai and watch-tower were seen, on ground that at one time had been cultivated with the help of qanāts. Turning up a narrow side-valley to the NW. we reached Khaneh-när, with a spring and some terraced fields cultivated by three Tajik households. Above the head of the little valley a very steep rocky ridge bears the remains of much ruined dwellings built with rough stones and mortar, and designated with the usual name of Qal'a-i-gabri. A cement-lined reservoir at the northern end of the ridge was intended to assure a provision of water.From Khaneh-nar a difficult path led us next morning by a narrow tortuous gully up to the pass of Mil-i-Qāzi (6,000 ft.). It takes its name from a bold natural pinnacle which is passed about a mile from Khaneh-nar. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 136

R17-035 Mil-i Qazi
R17-035 Mil-i Qazi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: MT UFI: 176672 coordinate: lat 28.878771 long 53.527237
NIMA/GNS names: Kuh-e Mil-e Qazi , Mil-e Qazi , کوه میل قاضی ,
VARIANT names: Mil-e Qazi , Mil-i Qazi ,
SOURCE for Mil-e Qazi
SOURCE for Mil-i Qazi
« Mil-i Qazi » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-036 Fasa : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Fasa , Fassa , فسا ,
VARIANT names: Fasa , Fazza , Fessa , Paça , Passà ,
SOURCE for Fasa
« This route passed Tarom, Forgh, Rustak, Darab, Darakan, Fasa, Sarvestan and then Shiraz, and from there onwards to Isfahan. This was the normal trade route prior the reign of Shah `Abbas I (1587-1629) . » #3002 Willem Floor, Persian Gulf: Links with the Hinterland, Bushehr, Borazjan, Kazerun, Banu Ka`b and Bandar Abbas, Mage Publishers, Washington, 2015 ~ p. 252 and #1169 Floor, Willem, The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1999, 37:67-94 ~ p. 67
« 25 mai. Nous traversâmes une basse montagne, puis une plaine bien arrosée, où il y a des cultures assez nombreuses en céréales, et çà et là plusieurs petits villages. Nous en trouvâmes un, aux trois quarts ruiné, puis nous arrivâmes à Fása, ville de moyenne grandeur. A Darap, on voyait encore quelques Palmiers; ici ils ont entièrement disparu. [May 25. We crossed a low mountain, then a well-watered plain, where there are quite numerous cereal crops, and here and there several small villages. We found one, three-quarters ruined, then we arrived at Fása, a medium-sized town. In Darap, we still saw a few palm trees; here they have completely disappeared. ] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 600
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« Nous voyons un chemin qui conduit à Fazza, bourg à douze farsengs N. E. de Djaroûn, et chef-lieu d'un district de ce nom. [We see a path leading to Fazza, a town twelve farsengs NE of Djaroûn, and capital of a district of that name.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 456
SOURCE for Fessa
« We reached Fessa, after performing what is called 11 fursacks, or 38½ miles, but which, I think, does not exceed 9 fursacks, or 31½ miles. The plain extends in length E. and W., and may be about 7 miles in breadth. Fessa itself, which is merely a large village of some 900 families, with a detached mud fort and some pleasant gardens, stands in the midst of it towards its western extremity » #3038 Keith E. Abbott, Notes Taken on a Journey Eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, Thence Westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, London, 1857 ~ p. 153
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« On the 3rd of June (3) they set out and went to sleep two leagues a day, and the next day they walked eight leagues and the next day they walked six, and they arrived at a large place called Paça, with many crops; and following their path through these places they arrived at a field by a river with salt water, where the wife of Braym Beça was staying: the » #3565 Smith, Ronald Bishop, The First Age of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations in Persia (1507-1524), Decatur Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 1970 ~ pp. 41-2
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« Il venerdi poi, che era il diciassette di giugno, uscito già il sole, avendo camminato quattro leghe di lontananza, ma più assai di giro, per gli errori della notte, arrivammo alla terra grossa Passà, da me un'altra volta nell'andare in giù,[Then on Friday, which was the seventeenth of June, when the sun had already come out, having walked four leagues away, but much more around, due to the mistakes of the night, we arrived at the large land Passà, from me once again on the way down,] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ pt. 2 p. 355

R17-038 Tal-I-Zohak
R17-038 Tal-I-Zohak : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: 10069619 coordinate: lat 28.910991 long 53.66697
NIMA/GNS names: Mantaqeh-ye Bastani-ye Tall-e Zahhak , Qal`eh-ye Tal-e Zahak , قلعه تل ضحاک , منطقه باستانی تل ضحاک ,
VARIANT names: Kaleh Zohauk , Qal`eh-ye Tal-e Zahak , Tal-i-Zohak ,
SOURCE for Kaleh Zohauk
[mound is located 200m due east of these coordinates.PBR]
« On the 22nd March I quitted Fessa, after a friendly greeting from the Governor, whose kindness and courtesy I shall long remember. We proceeded at once towards the Kaleh Zohauk, situated at 2 miles south of Fessa: the site is a high, artificial mound of soft earth, surrounded at some distance by the remains of a broad ditch. The area within is strewn with stones and fragments of brick and pottery, and is now partly under cultivation. To the S.E. and s. low mounds of earth, stones, and bricks, show that the town extended beyond the ditch in that direction. The place is reputed to have been the residence of Zohauk, a prince in whose history much Persian fable has been introduced; but I could learn no further particulars of its previous annals. From the mound I obtained the following bearings :-
Fort of Fessá 330° 1½ miles distant.
Village of Fessá 335° 2 miles distant.
Village of Benian 345° 2½ miles distant.
Village of Kehnakú 5° 2 miles distant.
Village of Desht Ahmed 15° ¾ miles distant.
Village of Kheirabad 45° ½ miles distant.
Village of Kúshkh-e-Kazin 30 ° 1½ miles distant.
Village of Deh Desteh 170° 1 miles distant.
Village of Harúm 95° 2 miles distant.
Village of Sehrarúd 135° 3 miles distant.
Village of Mahomedabad 125° 3½ miles distant.
Village of Chuggat 270 ° 2 miles distant
Mountain of Sallú, at the foot of which rises a spring depositin salt, 305°, 4 miles distant. » #3038 Keith E. Abbott, Notes Taken on a Journey Eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, Thence Westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, London, 1857 ~ p. 154
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« I lost no time in moving my camp by December 31st to the conspicuous mound known as Tal-i-Zohāk which we had already sighted from the height of the Mil-i-Qāzi pass (Fig. 9).
It rises close to the village of Khairābād, about 2 miles south of Fasā town, and is situated amidst cultivated ground which like the latter itself receives water solely from qanāts. It did not take me long to realize that the roughly rectangular area strewn with debris represents the old site of Fasa town such as it existed down to medieval times. It measures, as the Plan 5 shows, about 900 by 600 yards, and within its eastern corner rises the mound. A depression of varying width, but clearly traceable throughout and now used for cultiva- tion, marks a fosse enclosing this area, and within it are low terraces marking probably the position where more substantial structures had once stood and left their debris. Similar low terraces could also be seen rising amidst fields for distances up to half a mile outside the fosse to the east and south. That the site within the fosse had been occupied down to medieval times ... . » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 137

R17-037 Khairabad
R17-037 Khairabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kheyrabad , Kheyrabad-e Humeh , خیر آباد ,
VARIANT names: Khairabad , Kheyrabad ,
SOURCE for Khairabad
« I lost no time in moving my camp by December 31st to the conspicuous mound known as Tal-i-Zohāk which we had already sighted from the height of the Mil-i-Qāzi pass (Fig. 9).
It rises close to the village of Khairābād, about 2 miles south of Fasā town, and is situated amidst cultivated ground which like the latter itself receives water solely from qanāts. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 137
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R17-039 Qal'a-i-gabri
R17-039 Qal'a-i-gabri : place IRN NIMA/GNS feature: MT independent coordinate: lat 28.868261 long 53.592591 VARIANT names: Dahhak Kitchen Castle , Qal'a-i-gabri (Fasa) , SOURCE for Dahhak Kitchen Castle « The remains of Dahhak Kitchen Castle belong to the Ashkan period - Sassanian period and are located 6 kilometers southwest of Fasa city, at the heights of Mount Gach, and this work was registered as one of the national works of Iran on March 26, 2006 with the registration number 21841. [1] Due to the existence of an ancient hill known as Tell Zahhak a few kilometers from this castle, the local people believe that this place was actually the kitchen of Zahhak, the mythical king of Iran, and his servants, after cooking food in this kitchen, quickly took it to his place of residence. » [accessed 20 Jul 2024] SOURCE for Qal'a-i-gabri (Fasa) « On January 6th, 1934, we left the site of Tal-i-Zohāk for a remarkable stronghold on the rugged hill-chain overlooking the Fasa valley from the west. It bears the usual designation of Qal'a-i-gabri, the 'Zoroastrians' Castle'. It is certainly in various ways the largest and most imposing of the ruined fast- nesses I had occasion to survey on this journey. After crossing a continuous area of cultivation for 3 miles, which was tilled in alternate years, a stony glacis was ascended in a bitterly cold wind for another 3 miles. Then camp was pitched below the mouth of a valley hemmed in by two rugged steep spurs at an elevation of 4,900 ft. The ascent to the fastness led first (see Plan 7) to where the ravine at the mouth of the valley had been closed by a massive barrage, some 540 ft. in length. The wall measures fully 20 ft. in thickness and is very solidly built with large stones set in mortar, and for this the gypsum, of which the greater part of the hillside is composed, had provided material close at hand. Yet the wall has been broken by erosion in three places, and, above the largest of these gaps in the barrage, a deep fissure in the rocky valley bottom holds a small brackish spring. The barrage, no doubt, contemporary with the fortifications on the spur to the east of the valley, was obviously intended to store water from the spring as well as from ain, perhaps chiefly for the use of animals brought for safety into the defended area. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ pp. 142 and 144

R17-040 Kanakan
R17-040 Kanakan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kahtekan , Kankan , Kankar , کنکان ,
VARIANT names: Kahtekan , Kanakan ,
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« While we were encamped at Tal-i-Zohāk Mirzā Muhammad Khan, the intelligent and obliging headman of the village of Kanakan, lower down in the Fasā valley, had brought for my inspection some painted potsherds, unmis- takably prehistoric, which had been dug up at some small mounds in his vicinity. So we started for Kanakan from below the Qal'a-i-gabri on the morning of January 12th. The route led SE. over a bare stony glacis to the foot of the curious hill-chain of Tang-i-Khuwar, which stretches from west to east across the Fasa valley, dividing it into two portions. Less than 2 miles to the NE. of the saddle by which the route crosses the chain lies the gorge through which the dry flood-bed coming from Fasa town and Khaira- bad passes; to it the name Tang-i-Khuwar properly applies. Skirting the village of Senan and the much larger one of Fidishkūh, which both receive irrigation from qanāts having their heads in the Tang-i-Khuwar gorge, we reached Konakan after a total march of 11 miles. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 149

R17-042 Takht-i-sang pass
R17-042 Takht-i-sang pass : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: LCTY UFI: 10069600 coordinate: lat 28.7691 long 53.636
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-ye Takhteh Sang , گردنه تخته سنگ ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh-ye Takhteh Sang , Takht-i-sang pass , Takti-Sang ,
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SOURCE for Takht-i-sang pass
« Takhta-sang » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
« On a reconnaissance made in the opposite direction I found that two small areas of debris, which were to be seen about 2 miles to the west of Fidishkûh village near the foot of the hill-range which the road towards Jahrûm crosses by the Takht-i-sang pass, showed only ceramic fragments, indicating occupa- tion in Muhammadan times. The ground occupied by them might have been irrigated at one time by qan?ts from the Tang-i-Khuw » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 157
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« Sur ce chemin, qui passe par Takti-Sang, est un caravansérail, près duquel sont des tours où les paysans se mettent pour veiller, pendant la nuit, à leurs récoltes dans le temps de la moisson. [On this road, which passes through Takti-Sang, is a caravanserai, near which are towers where the peasants stand to watch over their crops at night during harvest time.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 456

R17-041 Fidishkuh
R17-041 Fidishkuh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Fashkuyeh , Fedashkuyeh , Fedeshkuh , Fedeshkuyeh , Fedshkuyeh , Fidishkun , Fidushkuh , فاشکویه , فدشکویه ,
VARIANT names: Fedeshkuh , Fidishkuh ,
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SOURCE for Fidishkuh
« Fidishkuh » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-043 Zahidan
R17-043 Zahidan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Zahed Shahr , Zahedan , Zahidan , زاهد شهر , زاهدان ,
VARIANT names: Zahedan , Zahidan , Zahrdeh ,
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SOURCE for Zahidan
« Zahidan » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
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« Zahrdeh is a large village, with fruit gardens and a few date palms, and a quantity of cultivation around it, so that snoplies of grain are assured. There are also at least 100 cows, and from 300 to 400 sheep and goats available. A large white domed tomb close to village on north-west side forms a good landmark for these parts. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 123

R17-048 Mian-deh
R17-048 Mian-deh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Eslamabad , Meyan Deh , Mian Deh , Miandeh , Miyan Deh , اسلام آباد , میان ده , میانده ,
VARIANT names: Meyan Deh , Mian-deh ,
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SOURCE for Mian-deh
« Mian-deh » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-050 Naubandagan
R17-050 Naubandagan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Naubandagan , Now Bandegan , نو بندگان ,
VARIANT names: Nabandagan , Naubandagan , Nubandagan , Nubangan ,
SOURCE for Nabandagan
« arrived at the village of Nabandágán, distanee 13 miles.Nabandágán is a large and prosperous walled village, almost worthy of the name of town; it contains 700 houses with a popu- lation of 3,500 people; 3,000 máns of wheat and barley and 500 máns of poppy-seed are sown yearly. The village owns 88 oxen for tillage, 4,000 sheep, and 4,000 donkeys; no mules. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 6
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« NAUBANDAGAN (1) ??28-51 53-50 m. A village with 3,555 inhabitants in the Dehestan of the same name, population 7,009 and 18 villages, in Fasa Shahrestan of Fars province. In 1914 the area was described as follows: Elevation 4,280 feet. A village in Fars, 96 miles from Shiraz and 13 miles southeast of Fasa, and half a mile from the road thence to Darab. It is a large, prosperous, walled village of 700 houses, and about 3,500 people. The village owns 88 oxen for tillage, 4,000 sheep and 4,000 donkeys, but no mules. Carts could be brought here from Fasa without any difficulty. Water is plentiful along the whole road. (Preece, 1892.) » #3005 Ludwig W. Adamec, Historical gazetteer of Iran, Abadan and South Western Iran, Akademische Drucku, Verlagsanstalt, 1976-1989 ~ p. 576
« Naubandagän (4,280)28°49'53°51'....700 houses: 13 miles S. E. of Fasā: population 3,500: 80 oxen, 4,000 sheep, 4,000 donkeys, no mules: road fit for carts to Fasā. » #3095 Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department, Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1916 ~ p. 163
« On January 30th a march of over 20 miles brought us from Makurd up to Naubandagan in the NE. portion of the Fasā district. After passing again through Mian-deh, where, to the great relief of our escort, the escaped bandit had meanwhile been recaptured, our route led north of the Fasā flood-bed. Naubandagān is a large place and the trading centre for a small but fertile village tract irrigated from a small stream descending from the foot of the Tudēj range 160 he NE. During a day's halt there, imposed by practical tasks, the small sites known as Tal-i-Baqarābād and Tal-i-Afghani in the vicinity were visited. At neither was there found any evidence of occupation preceding Muhammadan times. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 160
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« Nūbandagan ou Nūbangān Nübangän, ruines à 30°05' Net 51°32' E Iran Cité de la circonscription de Säbür I 98, 110, 127, 133, 134, 135-37, H 262, 264, 268, 281, Hur 42, 43, 45, 47, 195, 226, F 200, 203, R 190, Muq 52, 258, 420, 424, 434, 444, 447, 453, 456 Yaq IV, 817, LS 263-64, Schw 34, DKI 202, EI IV 406-408 sv Shūlistān » #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 55
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R17-049 Makurd
R17-049 Makurd : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kushk-e va Mahkord , Mah Kord , Makurd , مه کرد ,
VARIANT names: Makurd ,
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« During the third night of our stay at Bishezard the captured bandit, though bound and guarded, managed to make his escape for the time being-and in consequence of the ensuing search for him our start for the small hamlet of Makurd on the opposite side of the Fasa valley was much delayed. The march to it led for 7 miles across a bare scrub-covered waste with no trace of ancient occupation. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 159

R17-051 Gilian
R17-051 Gilian : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Jaleyan , Jalian , Jalyan , Jelian , جلیان ,
VARIANT names: Gilian , Jaleyan , Jelyan ,
SOURCE for Gilian
« On February ist I was glad to leave Naubandagan for Gilian, a walled village surrounded by pleasant orchards some 5 miles farther up the stream. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 160
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« February 5th.-Left at 9-35 ?.?. For 34 miles the road contin- ued along the plain up to the village of Jelyán, which was passed on the right hand. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 6

R17-052 Murdi
R17-052 Murdi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Mordeh , Murdi , Qal`eh-e Murdi , قلعه موردی , موردی ,
VARIANT names: Mordi , Murdi ,
SOURCE for Mordi
« After going another mile, rounding some low hills, the bed of a river, about 80 yards across, was passed; there was scarcely any water in it, even at this time of the year. Shortly afterwards (three-quarters of a mile) we came to a fair stream, crossed by a very primitive sort of bridge; three quarters of a mile further on and the village of Mordi was reached. The stream ran by the side of the road the whole way, and is known by the same name as the village. The village only contains 50 houses, 150 people; 2,000 máns wheat and barley and 70 máns of poppy- seed are sown yearly; also some Indian-corn, 20 oxen, and 600 sheep are owned by the village, but no donkeys or mules. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 6
SOURCE for Murdi
« Murdi » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-053 Shash-deh
R17-053 Shash-deh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Shash Deh , Shesh Deh , Sheshdeh , Shish Deh , ششده ,
VARIANT names: Chiste , Shash-deh , Shesh Deh , Sheshdeh ,
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« Au - delà d'un torrent d'hiver , le chemin est pierreux , et le terrain s'élève de plus en plus. Peu après nous atteignons Chistè . Ce village , du district de Fassâ , est entouré de murs et dominé par une haute montagne appelée Derakti. Il produit des grains , du coton et du tabac à fumer . Avant d'y parvenir , on trouve quelques ruines , puis des jardins plantés d'arbres fruitiers , au milieu desquels s'elèvent diverses maisons . [Beyond a winter torrent, the path is stony, and the ground rises more and more. Shortly after we reach Chistè. This village, in the district of Fassa, is surrounded by walls and dominated by a high mountain called Derakti. It produces grain, cotton and smoking tobacco. Before reaching there, we find some ruins, then gardens planted with fruit trees, in the middle of which various houses stand.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 346
SOURCE for Shash-deh
« Shash-deh » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
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SOURCE for Sheshdeh
« The Tang extended for about a mile, the hills on the left side being somewhat precipitous for the last half mile, those on the right sloping and broken. Along the sides of the Tang I noticed the remains of an aqueduct generally built up of stone and mortar, but in some places eut out of the rock. This is said to have been built and carried along the sides of the hills right down into the plain of Daráb, to supply that place and Hassanábád with water. I could not learn about what time it was supposed to have been built. Having passed through the Tang, we came out on the plain of Sheshdeh. An easy ride of 3 miles, along a level and good road, brought us to the village of that name. Distance 12 miles. Sheshdeh is a large and prosperous place, but the people are of a somewhat forbidding caste of countenance, and appear to be inclined to be rude and uncivil, differing from the other villagers we have come across in this respect. The village contains 200 houses, 700 people; 6,000 máns of wheat and barley, and 80 máns of poppy-seed are sown yearly. The villagers possess 60 oxen, 1,500 sheep, and 50 donkeys, but no mules. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 7

R17-000 Shiraz
R17-000 Shiraz : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chimaz , Chiraz , Schiras , Shiraz , Siraz , شیراز ,
VARIANT names: Chiras , Chiraz , Chyraz , Giras , Giraz , Schiras , Sciras , Sciraz , Scyras , Sehiras , Shira-its-tsi-ish , Shirass , Shiraz , Siras , Siràs or Xiràs or Sciraz , Širaz , Sjiraas , Sjiraas , Stadt Siraes , Syras , Xiras , Xiraz , Zjie-raes ,
SOURCE for Chiras
« dinge alle de omleggende vlekken hooren, en daarvan hij in Chiras aan den gouverneur reekeningh doen moet, [let all the destroyers hear the things, and he must give an account of them to the governor in Chiras,] » #3226 Cornelis Janszoon Speelman Ed. A. Hotz, Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I. Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar perzië in 1651-1652, J. Müller, 1908 ~ p. 74
« Le 17, j'arrivai à Chiras, foible et défait, [On the 17th, I arrived in Chiras, weak and defeated,] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 9 p. 90
« Je n'ai point voulu marquer par le compas la route que je tenois , jour par jour, d'Ispalian à Chiras, car c'est presque la même chose chaque jour ; [I did not want to mark with the compass the route I took, day by day, from Ispalian to Chiras, because it is almost the same thing every day;] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 8 p. 241
SOURCE for Chiraz
« ITINÉRAIRE DE CHIRAZ A SIRAF. De Chiraz à Kafra كفرة village 15 milles.?? » #3001 Al-Idrisi, P. Amedee Jaubert, Geographie d'Edrisi, Bertrand, Paris, 1836 ~ vol. 1 p. 400
SOURCE for Chyraz
« Chyraz » in {map#1255 Carte de la Perse, de la Turquie d'Asie et d'une partie de la Tartarie Indépendante / dressée par P. Lapie... ; gravée par Blondeau..., , 1810, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE C-10435}
« Chyraz » in {map#1253 Carte de la Perse, de la Turquie d'Asie et d'une partie de la Tartarie Indépendante / Dressée par P. Lapie, ... pour les Voyages de Chardin ; Gravée par Blondeau, ..., , 1810, }
« Arrivé à la porte de Chyraz, un individu préposé à je ne sais quoi se jeta sur Alawerdi et le secoua avec violence; on lui demanda 2 krowns, je ne sais à quel titre. Alawerdi résista, mais le préposé s'empara du fusil qu'il portait en bandoulière. Je le laissai faire, bien persuadé que j'en obtiendrais raison. Je fus d'abord à la douane où je déposai mes effets qui furent culbutés,, Dieu sait comme! et me rendis ensuite chez le nabab où je retrouvai mon logement. [Arriving at the gate of Chyraz, an individual in charge of I don't know what threw himself on Alawerdi and shook him violently; he was asked for 2 krowns, I don't know for what reason. Alawerdi resisted, but the attendant grabbed the rifle he was carrying across his shoulder. I let him do it, fully convinced that I would get his way. I first went to customs where I deposited my belongings which were overturned, God knows how! and then went to the nawab where I found my accommodation.] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 603
SOURCE for Giras
« GIRAS, cidade de - Shiraz, em 29° 38' lat. N. e 52° 31' long. E., na Pérsia. [P. Fernão Guerreiro - Relações Anais]. [GIRAS, city of - Shiraz, in 29° 38' lat. N. and 52° 31' long. E., in Persia. [P. Fernão Guerreiro - Annals].] » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953, ~ vol. D-N p. 85
SOURCE for Giraz
« From there they will go to the city of Vargim, and from there to the city of Giraz » #2516 Afonso de Albuquerque, ed.Raymundo Antonio de Bulhão Pato, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, Cartas de Affonso de Albuquerque, seguidas de documentos que as elucidam, Academia Real Das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1884, 1898 ~ vol. 2 p. 249
SOURCE for Schiras
« Le seizième de mars à huit heures du matin, je partis de Schiras, et après six heures de marche dans la plaine, qui cesse d'être fertile à une lieue de la ville, [On the sixteenth of March at eight o'clock in the morning, I left Schiras, and after six hours of walking in the plain, which ceases to be fertile a league from the town,] » #3144 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Pascal Pia, Voyages en Perse et description de ce royaume par Jean-Babtiste Tavernier Marchand Francais, E´d. du Carrefour, Paris, 1930 ~ p. 310
« J'arrivay à Schiras ſur les fix heures du ſoir ; [I arrived at Shiras around six o'clock in the evening;] » #3632 Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Ecuyer Baron d'Aubonne, qu'il a fait en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes,, Chez Gervais Clouzier et Claude Barbin, 1676 ~ p. 656
« La Ville de Schiras, où nous arrivames enfin le 4 de Mars, n'eſt qu'à 1 mille de Tſchinar Raddar vers l'Eſt. Nous employames donc dixhuit jours, pour faire le Voyage d'Abuſchäbhr à Schiras, au lieu que fans cela, quelqu'un peut facilement faire ce Voyage en fix jours. La cauſe que nous étions fi longtems en chemin, n'étoit pas ſeulement le mauvais tems et le détour par Kormudſch, mais que la plus part des Marchandises de notre Kaffle, n'étoient chargées que fur des mauvais Anes, qui ne pouvoient faire que de petites journées. [The city of Shiras, where we finally arrived on March 4th, is only one mile east of Tſchinar Raddar.
It therefore took us eighteen days to make the journey from Abuſschäbhr to Shiras, whereas someone could easily make this journey in ten days. The reason we were so long on the road was not only the bad weather and the detour via Kormudſsh, but also that most of the goods in our wagon were loaded only onto poor donkeys, which could only travel for short periods.] » #3642 Niebuhr, Carsten, Voyage en Arabie et en d'autres pays circonvoisins, vol. 2, S.J. Baalde, Amsterdam, 1780 ~ vol. 2 p. 91
SOURCE for Sciras
« . Egli, mentre facemmo dimora a Sciras, non volle che noi ſpendeſsimo, per non offender le leggi dell'oſpitalità; [While we were staying in Sciras, he did not want us to spend money so as not to offend the laws of hospitality; ] » #3239 Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, Giro del mondo, del dottor D. Gio. Francesco Gemelli Careri.., stamp. di G. Roselli, Napoli, 1699 ~ pt. 2 p.263
SOURCE for Sciraz
« Fatta poi notte, di nuovo ci rimettemmo alla via; e il mercoledi, ventidue di giugno, camminate pian piano e molto adagio le due o tre sole leghe che restavano infin alla città di Sciraz, non prima dell'alba ci arrivamnto. [Then when night fell, we set off again; and on Wednesday, the twenty-second of June, you walked slowly and very slowly the only two or three leagues that remained until the city of Sciraz, arriving there not before dawn.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 362
« A due o tre ore di notte facemmo di nuovo levata, e dopo aver camminato tutto il resto della notte, il sabbato, sedici di ottobre, fatte le sci altre leghe che sole restavano a giorno chiaro, levato già il sole, arrivammo ai giardini di Sciraz, la qual città è situata pur in un bel piano circondato quasi d'ogn'intorno da monti, [At two or three o'clock in the morning we rose again, and after having walked all the rest of the night, on Saturday, the sixteenth of October, having skied the other leagues that were left in the light of day, the sun having already risen, we arrived at the gardens of Sciraz, which city is situated on a beautiful plain surrounded almost on all sides by mountains,] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 265
SOURCE for Scyras
« Het Landt roudtom Scyras is seer buchtbaar; maar boven al in Wijngaarden/die den Wijn voastrengen / welke dosz geheel Perfien, en selfs daar bupten / voor den besten van de ge heele Werelt gehouden. werdt / zijnde noch geuriger/ krachti ger/en forter als de Canarie-Sck. [The Land of Scyras is very famous; but above all in Vineyards / that supply the Wine / which are entirely Perfian, and even there / held for the best in the entire World. was / being neither more fragrant / more powerful / and stronger than the Canarie-Sck.] » #3243 Jan Janszoon Struys, Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige Reysen, Meurs, 1677 ~ p. 354
SOURCE for Sehiras
« Having view'd these Antiquities, which with those of Derbent, were all we met with in our Travels, I prosecuted my jour|ney the 28. of Ianuary, and got that day ten Leagues, to the City of Sehiras. » #3669 Adam Olearius, Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, John Davies, The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, J. Starkey and T. Basset, 1669 ~ Mandelslo pt. 2 p. 2
SOURCE for Shira-its-tsi-ish
see source « Syras »
SOURCE for Shirass
« Dined here and went away for Shirass, being 5 farsangs, bad way up hills and down ; about the middle of the way in a fine plain is a good caravensaroy. Arrjved at Shirass at 8 at night. 21st [February], being Sunday. Went away for Bobbahodge. 9 farsangs good way . » #3248 Bernard P. Scattergood, Ed. Temple, Carnac Rihard, The Scattergoods and the East India Company, A Collection of Mss., Indian Antiquary, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930 vol. LIX:pt DCCXXXVI-A:pp. 33-74 ~ p. 41
SOURCE for Shiraz
« This route passed Tarom, Forgh, Rustak, Darab, Darakan, Fasa, Sarvestan and then Shiraz, and from there onwards to Isfahan. This was the normal trade route prior the reign of Shah `Abbas I (1587-1629) . » #3002 Willem Floor, Persian Gulf: Links with the Hinterland, Bushehr, Borazjan, Kazerun, Banu Ka`b and Bandar Abbas, Mage Publishers, Washington, 2015 ~ p. 252 and #1169 Floor, Willem, The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1999, 37:67-94 ~ p. 67
« 24th February, Khan-i-Zanyan, 3 farsakhs ; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 25th February, Shiraz, 8 farsakhs ; 5.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Next morning early, we saddled our horses for Shiraz. We had thirty-two miles to march, and the road, winding among bare mountain-tops, proved less interesting than any stage since Burazjan. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ p. 45
« next night pitching a farfangh ſhort of Shiraz; where we expected a ceremonious entrance » #1608 Herbert, Thomas, Sir, Some Yeares Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the Author., Printed by R. Bip. for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, London, 1638, ~ p. 132
« Hastening on towards Shiráz, I met a line inspector on tour, Mr Jefferies, who informed the that there was a riot taking place in the capital of Fárs. Accordingly, with very brief visits to the stupendous monuments of Persepolis, which I fortunately was able to examine carefully five years later, marched rapidly on, and being warned to avoid the town, proceeded to the beautiful Telegraph Garden, where I was most hospitably received by Dr Scully, the entertainer of almost every European traveller in Persia. » #1631 Sykes, Major P. Molesworth, Ten thousand miles in Persia or eight years in Iran, John Murray, London, 1902, ~ p. 80-81
« and thence in 5 leagues to the city of Shiraz. Total: from Yazdi-khwāst to Shiraz 44 leagues, » #1764 ed. Le Strange, G., The geographical part of the Nuzhat-al-qulub composed by Hamd-Alla¯h Mustawfi¯ of Qazwi¯n in 740 (1340), E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1919 ~ p. 176
« Further on, we passed the fine tomb of Shah Ameer Hamza, son of the Imaum Moosa; and crossing a bridge over the dry bed of a river, we entered Shiraz before dark. » #1185 Buckingham, J. S., Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore, Henry Colburn: Gregg International Publishers Limited, London: London, 1829:1971, ~ p. 287
« Although the city is the capital of the historic province of Fars and by right of inheritance the successor to the glory of Persepolis, the claim which Shiraz can make to eminence by reason of antiquity is not comparable with that of either Hamadan or Rei in Media of old. The general location of the city, it is true, is probably an ancient one, as shown by the vestiges of Achsemenian and Sasanian ruins in the vicinity, » #3178 Jackson, A. V. Williams, Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, The Macmillan Company, London, 1906 ~ p. 324
SOURCE for Siras
« The 24th daye about 12 a clok att night we did sett out of the citie of Siras, comonly called by the inhabitans Shiras, and traveling over theplayne, » #3214 Stodart, Robert; introduction and notes by Sir. E. Denison Ross, The Journal of Robert Stodart: Being an account of his experiences as a member of Sir Dodmore Cotton's Mission in Persia in 1628-29. Published from the unique manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library, Luzac and Co, London, 1935 ~ p.78
« In our Stay here we had Opportunity to observe Siras, not only by Fame, but indeed to be, second to none, except the Royal City, in the whole Empire: » #1591 Fryer, John M. D., A New Account of East-India and Persia in eight letters being nine years travel (Edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke), Hakluyt Society:Kraus Reprint, 1909:1967, 3 vols. ~ vol. 2 p. 211
« Siras (Shirāz) for each carga half a mahmudi as in Lār » #3297 John Emerson, Rahdars and Their Tolls in Safavid and Afsharid Iran, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1987 vol. 30:no. 3:pp. 318-327 ~ p. 321
SOURCE for Siràs or Xiràs or Sciraz
« fn. 30. Bembo gives three spellings for Shiraz: "Siràs or Xiràs or Sciraz." Persepolis is 80 km north of Shiraz. The plain to which Bembo refers is Marv Dasht, and he gives the name "Mircascun" to the town of Zargan. » #3299 trans. Clara Bargellini ed. Anthony Welch Ambrosio Bembo, The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2007 ~ p. 298
SOURCE for Širaz
« Širāz VI C4
Id Iran
Métropole (misr) de la province du Fāris et circonscription
IV 391 » #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 58
SOURCE for Sjiraas
« Den 11. dito na 2 mylen, aan de voor aan in Sjiraas gelegene Tsaarbag, daar van velen verwelkomt wierd. [The 11th ditto after 2 miles, at the front of Tsarbag located in Shiraas, where many were welcomed.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 285
« Den 7. dito vertrokken wy van Sjiraas, hadden een goeden weg, en rondom ons veel dorpen. [On the 7th we left Shiraas, had a good road, and many villages around us.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ bk. 5 p. 263
« Den 6. dito wierd zyn. Ed: door eenige Armeniers bezogt, door hen met eenige tafel-vrugten beichonken, en 's namiddags door deneerſten ſchryver des Viziers verzogt, om op te zitten, weshalven zyn ed: na Sjiraas vertrok, [On the 6th his Ed: was visited by some Armenians, by whom he was refreshed with some table fruits, and in the afternoon he was requested by the chief scribe of the Vizier to sit on, wherefore his Ed: departed after Sjiraas,] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 274
SOURCE for Stadt Siraes
« 7 Nov 1645 » #3230 Dagh Register gehouden bij den oppercoopman Leonard Winninx ‘tsindert den 6 Julij anno 1645 dat uijt Gamron naer Spahan vertreckt, tot den 24e November, daeraen volgende, als wanneer in gemelte Gamron wederom gearriveert is." inventory number 1152 catalogue reference number 1.04.02, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, ~ f. 384
« 23 July 1645 » #3230 Dagh Register gehouden bij den oppercoopman Leonard Winninx ‘tsindert den 6 Julij anno 1645 dat uijt Gamron naer Spahan vertreckt, tot den 24e November, daeraen volgende, als wanneer in gemelte Gamron wederom gearriveert is." inventory number 1152 catalogue reference number 1.04.02, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, ~ f. 361
SOURCE for Syras
« Persia alla via di levante (A levante, ove prima si trova la città de Syras la quale) li..20., ha populo inumerabile, mercadanti assaissimi, perchè tutti i mercadanti che vengono da le parte di sopra, cioè da Ere, Sanmarcahanthe (299) e da li in suso (volendo vegnir per la via de la Persia) passano per Syras, (300) fn. 299. Sanmarcahanth Samarcanda, la principale città della Transoxiana. RUY GONZALES DE CLAVIJO, che Enrico III di Castiglia aveva inviato come ambasciatore a Timur nel 1405, ci ha lasciato una descrizione di Samarcanda quale era ai suoi tempi; cfr. la sua opera Embassy to Tamerlane, cit., pp. 285-290. (Lo.) fn. 300. Syras Shiraz. Contrariamente a quanto comunemente si crede, Shiraz è una città molto antica. Poco dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, G. Cameron scopri a Persepoli alcune tavolette in lingua elamita, recanti dettagli sulle paghe degli operai ivi impegnati nella costruzione del palazzo di Dario; su una di tali tavolette compare il nome di Shiraz, sotto la forma Shira-its-tsi-ish. Si ha così la prova che la città esisteva già nel periodo degli Achemenidi. In quel tempo, tuttavia, essa era messa in ombra da Persepoli. Sotto i Sasanidi Shiraz fu capitale dell'Ardashir Khurreh, uno dei cin- que distretti in cui era divisa la provincia del Färs. ... [Persia on the eastern road (To the east, where first is the city of Syras which) li..20., has an innumerable population, very many merchants, because all the merchants who come from the upper parts, that is from Ere, Sanmarcahanthe (299) and from there upwards (wanting to come by the road to Persia) pass through Syras, (300) fn. 299. Sanmarcahanth Samarkand, the principal city of Transoxiana. RUY GONZALES DE CLAVIJO, whom Henry III of Castile had sent as ambassador to Timur in 1405, has left us a description of Samarkand as it was in his time; cf. his work Embassy to Tamerlane, cit., pp. 285-290. (Lo.) fn. 300. Syras Shiraz. Contrary to popular belief, Shiraz is a very ancient city. Shortly after the Second World War, G. Cameron discovered in Persepolis some tablets in the Elamite language, containing details of the wages of the workers employed there in the construction of the palace of Darius; on one of these tablets the name of Shiraz appears, in the form Shira-its-tsi-ish. This is evidence that the city already existed in the period of the Achaemenids. At that time, however, it was overshadowed by Persepolis. Under the Sassanids Shiraz was the capital of Ardashir Khurreh, one of the five districts into which the province of Färs was divided. ...] » #3310 Lockhart,L. Morozzo Della Rocca,R. Tiepolo,M.F., I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini, Ist. Poligrafico dello Stato, 1973 ~ p. 142
SOURCE for Xiras
« A 24, vispera de Sancta Catalina martir, despues de auer enuiado delante muy de mañana el Enbaxador su rrecamara y todas las demas cargas, le vinieron á dar auiso como le querian ya salir á reçibir de Xiras, [On the 24th, the eve of Sancta Catalina martyr, after the Enbaxador had sent his chamber and all the other loads in front of him very early in the morning, they came to inform him how they wanted him and to leave to receive Xiras,] » #3245 García de Silva y Figueroa, Manuel Serrano y Sanz, Comentarios De D. Garcia De Silva Y Figueroa De La Embajada Que De Parte Del Rey De España Don Felipe III Hizo Al Rey Xa Abas De Persia, La Spciedad de Bibliofilos Espanoles, Madrid, 1905 ~ vol. 1 p. 332
« A 5 de Abril, en la tarde, salio el Enbaxador de Xiras, dexando algunos criados suyos con mas de çiento y çinquenta cargas de la pimienta que se lleuaua al rey de Persia, [On April 5th, in the afternoon, the Ambassador of Xiras left, leaving some of his servants with more than one hundred and fifty loads of pepper that he was taking to the King of Persia.] » #3245 García de Silva y Figueroa, Manuel Serrano y Sanz, Comentarios De D. Garcia De Silva Y Figueroa De La Embajada Que De Parte Del Rey De España Don Felipe III Hizo Al Rey Xa Abas De Persia, La Spciedad de Bibliofilos Espanoles, Madrid, 1905 ~ vol. 1 p. 367
SOURCE for Xiraz
« XIRAZ, cidade de - Shiraz, em 29° 38' lat. N. e 52° 31' long. E., na Pérsia. [João de Barros-Da Asia). [XIRAZ, city of - Shiraz, in 29° 38' lat. N. and 52° 31' long. E., in Persia. [João de Barros-From Asia).] » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953, ~ vol. O-Z p. 287
SOURCE for Zjie-raes
« arriv?mes à minuit au Caravanserai de Babbahad-jie, à 5. lieuës de Zjie-raes. [and arrived at midnight at the Caravanserai of Babbahad-jie, 5 leagues from Zjie-raes.] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ p. 312

R17-008 Firuzabad
R17-008 Firuzabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Firuzabad , فیروز آباد ,
VARIANT names: Firouzabad , Firouz-Abad , Fírozabad , Firuzabad ,
SOURCE for Firouzabad
« Ayant trouvé un endroit où il y avait plusieurs sources d'excel- lente eau et quelques masures, nous y fimes notre menzil, à moitié chemin de Firouzabad, à environ quatre farsangs et demi. [Having found a place where there were several sources of excellent water and some hovels, we made our menzil there, half way from Firouzabad, about four and a half farsangs away.] » ##3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838., Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, Paris, 1843 ~ pt.2 p. 518
SOURCE for Firouz-Abad
« Firouz-Abad 8 Farsangs » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 2 p. 492
SOURCE for Fírozabad
« 4. Fírozábád-16 miles S.-71 miles; 4 miles-163 miles, 4 hours 15 minutes. by cast. Road good, except through the defile of Fierozkoon and the pass of Firozabad; latter is impracticable for artillery, but passable for mountain guns on mules. A heavy rain, the torrent in the pass becomes unfordable. General direction so by east. » #3091 C M Macgregor, Central Asia. Part IV. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, and history of Persia., Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1871 ~ p. 736
« Firozabad 40 miles Road bad. Near Firozabad descend the moun- tains into a beautiful well cultivated plain. The fort lies at the further extremity. » #3021 John Macdonald Kinneir, A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, John Murray, London, 1813 ~ p. 460
SOURCE for Firuzabad
« FIRÜZABAD (formerly Piruzābād, 'the town of victory', and originally known as Gūr or Cür) is situated in 28° 50' N. Lat. and 52° 34' E. Long. (Greenwich); it is 1356 m. above sea level. The present town, which had 4,340 inhabitants in 1951, is 3 km. to the south-east of the ancient site. Firü-zābād, besides being one of the chief centres of the Kash-ka'i tribe [q.v.], is the chief administrative centre of the district (shahristan) of the same name in the seventh Ustan (Fars). The surrounding country is very fertile and well-watered and the climate is temperate. » #2645 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, Brill, Leiden, ~ vol. 2 p. 925
« I2th March, Firuzabad, 6 farsakhs ; 8.30a.m.
to 5 p.m. The next day's march was to take
us to Firuzabad. The road passes through two
defiles, cloven by the river in a rocky ridge 500
feet high, called the Knife-edge (par-i-Kdrd),
and in a mountain-range beyond. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ vol. 1 p. 84

R17-001 Baghan
R17-001 Baghan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Baghan , باغان ,
VARIANT names: Baghan , Bagoûn ,
SOURCE for Baghan
« Baghan » in {map#1232 India and adjacent countries 1:1,000,000, parts of Persia, Surveyor General of India, 1915, Qatar Digital Library fig. Sheet No. 17 1915}
SOURCE for Bagoûn
« Un beau chemin nous conduit le long d'un ruisseau, sur nord; et en approchant du débouché de la vallée, nous laissons deux sentiers. L'un va au village de Bagoûn, l'autre va de Moûnzaferri au caravansérail de Baba-Hadji. [A beautiful path leads us along a stream, to the north; and as we approach the mouth of the valley, we leave two paths. One goes to the village of Bagoûn, the other goes from Moûnzaferri to the caravanserai of Baba-Hadji.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 2 pp. 67-8

R17-003 Kavar
R17-003 Kavar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kaval , Kavar , کوار ,
VARIANT names: Kavar , Kawäl , Kawan , Kewan , Kievar , Kovar , Kowar , Kuwar ,
SOURCE for Kavar
« 10th March, Kavar, 6 farsakhs ; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. They unbarred the gates of Deh-i-Nau at six o'clock next morning, and drove their cattle afield poor black cattle ; ... There is a small cluster of villages in the
neighbourhood of Kavar, but by far the greater
part of the plain it is twenty miles long by
twelve broad is uncultivated and desolate. A
river in Persia by no means implies irrigation.
Most Persian rivers, like the Qara-Agach here,
are so deep sunk that the water cannot be
brought to the level of the fields. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ vol. 1 pp. 76-80
SOURCE for Kawäl
« SO 1 Farsach von der Tange war 1 Farsach vom Wege das Dorf Kawäl. [SO 1 Farsach from the Tange was 1 Farsach from the way the village of Kawäl. ] » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 111
SOURCE for Kawan
« “Il nous reste à indiquer les distances respectives des villes dans le Fars. Ainsi de Chiraz à Kawan (---) (ou Kewan (---)) ? joli village où se trouve une mine de laquelle on extrait une sorte de terre de couleur verte comme de l'herbe, et même d'un vert plus foncé (cette terre est comestible et d'une saveur très-agréable), on compte 30 milles.” “It remains for us to indicate the respective distances of the cities in Fars. Thus from Shiraz to Kawan (---) (or Kewan (---)) ? pretty village where there is a mine from which a kind of earth green in color like grass, and even green darker (this earth is edible and has a very pleasant flavor), we count 30 miles.” » #3001 Al-Idrisi, P. Amedee Jaubert, Geographie d'Edrisi, Bertrand, Paris, 1836 ~ vol. 1 p. 405
SOURCE for Kewan
« From Nadjed to Kewan کوان town located halfway from Nadjed to the village of lanemdjan الينجان? 6 miles; » #3001 Al-Idrisi, P. Amedee Jaubert, Geographie d'Edrisi, Bertrand, Paris, 1836 ~ vol. 1 pp. 400-401
SOURCE for Kievar
« Kievar 8 Farsangs » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 2 vol. 2 p. 491
SOURCE for Kovar
Kovar
- Attestation: Kovar is named in the Mādigān i Hezār Dādistān (MHD A19.13-15; A20.2) as
a town in Ardashir Khurrah, close to Khabr (see also entry under Khir or Khabr) (86).
- Identification: The village of Kavar is located about 30 km north of Firuzabad
SOURCE for Kowar
« Kowar in route Lingah to Shiraz» #3334 Routes in Asia: Routes in Persia and Balochistan, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1878 ~ p. 344
SOURCE for Kuwar
« Kuwar VI C4, Kavar Iran, Etape sur la route de Širaz à Gür,I 106, 120, 128, 134, Η 262, 267, 275, 282, 286, 298, 302, Hur 44, Muq 451, LS 253, Schw 77, 81, DKI 191 » #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 53

R17-004 Gur-i-Bahman
R17-004 Gur-i-Bahman : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: TMB UFI: 10068980 coordinate: lat 29.1517 long 52.6818
NIMA/GNS names: Gur-e Bahman , گور بهمن ,
VARIANT names: Gur-e Bahman ,
SOURCE for Gur-e Bahman
« On the farther side rises
the Safidar range, 2000 feet high, still capped
with snow. This we crossed by a defile opening
unexpectedly between cliffs 150 feet high. It
is called the pass of Gur Bahman, or Bahman's
tomb. The tomb is a barrow of stones in the
mouth of the defile. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ vol. 1 p. 81

R17-005 Zanjiran
R17-005 Zanjiran : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh Zanjiran , Shahrak-e Zanjiran , Zanjiran , شهرک زنجیران ,
VARIANT names: Zangeroo , Zanjiran , Zendjiran , Zunjilan , Zunjiran ,
SOURCE for Zangeroo
« Zangeroo 22 miles A caravansera. Road four miles through the valley, sixteen miles through the pass, remainder a small plain: greater part of the road very bad. At six miles a small fort, called Kadgee. » #3021 John Macdonald Kinneir, A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, John Murray, London, 1813 ~ p. 460
SOURCE for Zanjiran
« We came out above the Khwaji plain, passed Zanjiran on our right a wellbuilt mud fort on a stony mound and sought quarters in Jawakan, the nearest village on the plain. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ vol. 1 p. 83
SOURCE for Zendjiran
« nous prenons le chemin du village de Zendjirân, que l'on ne découvre qu'a- près avoir dépassé quelques jardins enclos de murs. Ce village, contenant une vingtaine de familles, est bâti dans un enfoncement fermé par trois collines. Il était autrefois sur celle qui est à droite, où l'on ne voit plus que des décombres. Zendjirån fait partie du district de Kodjai, village à deux farsengs à l'ouest, et dépend du gouverneur de Firouz-Abad. [we take the road to the village of Zendjirân, which we only discover after passing some walled gardens. This village, containing about twenty families, is built in a hollow enclosed by three hills. It was formerly on the one on the right, where we now see only rubble. Zendjirån is part of the district of Kodjai, a village two farsengs to the west, and depends on the governor of Firouz-Abad.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 2 p. 66
SOURCE for Zunjilan
« Zunjilan in route Lingah to Shiraz» #3334 Routes in Asia: Routes in Persia and Balochistan, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1878 ~ p. 344
SOURCE for Zunjiran
« At 17 miles, village of Zunjiran, with trees and gardens of right. (There is space enough for a small force near the caravanserai, at mouth of 'defile, and abundance of room off left, near the torrent). » #3091 C M Macgregor, Central Asia. Part IV. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, and history of Persia., Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1871 ~ p. 736

R17-006 Serizjan
R17-006 Serizjan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Sariz Jan , Serizjan , Serizqan , Surzakun , سریز جان ,
VARIANT names: Serizjan ,
SOURCE for Serizjan

R17-007 Tangab
R17-007 Tangab : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: STM UFI: 10379754 coordinate: lat 28.9318 long 52.5285
NIMA/GNS names: Rudkhaneh-ye Tangab , رودخانه تنگاب ,
VARIANT names: Rudkhaneh-ye Tangab ,
SOURCE for Rudkhaneh-ye Tangab

R17-015 Qal`a--i-Dokhtar
R17-015 Qal`a--i-Dokhtar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: 10379755 coordinate: lat 28.9209 long 52.5301
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh-ye Dokhtar , قلعه دختر ,
VARIANT names: Qal`eh-ye Dokhtar ,
SOURCE for Qal`eh-ye Dokhtar
« QALʿA-YE DO ˜TAR, a vast barrier fortress with a lofty palace of royal dimensions, built by the founder of the Sasanian empire, Ardašir I Pāpakān before his decisive victory against the last Parthian king in 224 CE (FIGURE 1). It is built on a high spur of rock above a bend of the Tang-āb gorge, which is the main access point to the plain of Firuzābād from central Fārs. It is mentioned by earlier travelers (see Curzon, II, p. 228, n. 2), but Ernst Herzfeld (1926, pp. 252-52; idem, 1935, p. 95) was the first to recognize the correct layout of the fortress. Aurel Stein provided a more comprehensive description with a good topographic map of the palace, but he misunderstood the outline of the palace, and his interpretation of the building was not accurate (Stein, pp. 123-27). The site was surveyed in 1966 and 1972 on behalf of the German Archeological Institute. Between 1975 and 1977, excavations were carried out in preparation for a UNESCO restoration program on behalf of the Department of Conservation of Archeological Sites and National Monuments (Edāra-ye koll-e ḥefāẓat-e ā?ār-e bāstāni wa banāhā-ye tāri?-i; Huff, 1969-70; 1971; 1973; 1976; 1978; 1983-84; 1993; Gignoux). » at link83

R17-009 Firuzabad (old)
R17-009 Firuzabad (old) : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 28.852474 long 52.532917 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Ardašir-Xwarrah , Ardeshir Khore , Bayruzabad , Cur , Djour , Firuzabad (old) , Giouar , Gor , Gour , Gur , Jur ,
SOURCE for Ardašir-Xwarrah
« Ardašir-Xwarrah or Gör
- Attestations: Islamic geographers reported that at the site of Gör there had previously been another town at the time of the Kayanids (Achaemenids), one which had been destroyed and flooded by Alexander. After Ardašir I had established his power in Pārs and its neighboring provinces, he ordered the town of Gor to be built at the site of the disappeared town. According to Tabari, it was the foundation of this royal town by Ardašir that infuriated Ardaẞān or Ἁρτάβανος (Artabanos) V, resulting in the decisive battle of Hurmuzjan. Kārnāmag i Ardaširi Pābgān, however, recorded that Gör was a town that had been founded by Ardašir after his victory over Artabanos (KAP. V.13, IX. 13) 12. Gör was the center of a district with the same name and the capital of Ardašir-Xwarrah. …
- Identification: The ruins of the circular town of Gor (modern Firūz-Abād) are located about 3 km to the west of the modern town of Firūz-Abād. The Sasanian town of Gor was in fact part of a larger collection of structures and monuments built by Ardašir I in the Firūz-Abād region. They included the palace-fortress of Qal'e-Doxtar, the larger palace in the Firūz-Abād plain, two magnificent rock reliefs below Qal'e-Doxtar and the hydraulic structures, reported both in Kārnāmag i Ardaširi Pābgān and in the Islamic sources, to the south west of the circular town.
Fn. 11 Tabari, Vol. V: 11. » #3092 Negin Miri, Sasanian Pars: Historical Geography and Administrative Organization, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, 2012 ~pp. 48-9
SOURCE for Ardeshir Khore
« and before reaching the sea it used to drink Khonaifaqan, Gur and other areas in Ardeshir Khore. (Istakhari, 121; » #3088 Negin Miri, Historical Geography of Fars Rivers (in Persian) in Proceeding of the 1st Conference of Historical Geography, Tehran-March 2015 (pp.651-668), ~ p. 656
SOURCE for Bayruzabad
« Gür ou BayrūzābādVI C4Ruines à 3 km au NO de Fayrūzābād Iran Cité de la circonscription d'Ardašir ou de Širāz1 97, 104, 116, 118, 121, 123, 124, 128, 129, Η 262, 264, 267, 272, 278-79, 298, Hur 44, 47, Qud 232, F 198, 201, 203, 204, 210, R97, 224, Muq 25, 30, 52, 258(f), 421, 422, 423, 432, 443, 448, 454, 455, 456 Yaq II, 146-48, LS 255-56, Schw 56, DKI 171-72, EI II 947, s v Fayrūzābād » #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 49
SOURCE for Cur
« FIRÜZABAD (formerly Piruzābād, 'the town of victory', and originally known as Gūr or Cür) » #2645 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, Brill, Leiden, ~ vol. 2 p. 925
« Büreze nehri Derâcân-i Siyah nahiyesinden çikar Huneyfigan ve Curtakim sular, Erdesir-i Hurra rustaklarini geçtikten sonradenize dökülür, Fars bölgesinde daha baska nehirler bulunur.le bu kadariyla yetinecegiz.[Büreze River originates from Derâcân-i Siyah township. The waters of Huneyfagan and Cur groups flow into the sea after passing the Erdesir-i Hurra rustaks. There are other rivers in the Fars region. We will be content with this.] » #3174 Ibn Havkal trans. Ramazan Sesen, 10. Asirda Islam Cografyasi (Yeditepe Yayinevi), Yeditepe Yayinlari, 2014 ~ p. 221
SOURCE for Djour
« De Chiraz à Djour, 60 milles.Djour fut construite par Ardechir dans un lieu très-marécageux, ou plutôt sur l'emplacement d'un étang que ce prince fit dessécher. C'est une ville considérable, ceinte d'un mur en terre et d'un fossé, avec quatre portes; elle est comparable, en étendue, à Istakhar, à Sabour et à Darabdjerd; les constructions y sont vastes et les cours des maisons spacieuses; elle est entourée de jardins et de vergers. Le voyageur, en parcourant cette ville et ses environs, peut contempler de toutes parts de beaux édifices, des maisons de plaisance et des promenades charmantes; le climat y est très-sain. On voyait autrefois à Djour un belvédère connu sous le nom de Tirbal (---) élevé par les soins d'Ardechir, et construit de telle manière que, du haut de ce lieu, une personne pût apercevoir d'un coup d'œil toute la ville et ses environs; au sommet était un autel consacré au culte du feu. A l'époque de la conquête, les Musulmans détruisirent cet édifice et il n'en subsiste, de nos jours, que les ruines.On fabrique à Djour de l'eau de rose très-pure, répandant une odeur suave et conservant longtemps son parfum sans éprouver, pour ainsi dire, d'altération. Elle est connue sous le nom d'eau de rose djouri. » #3001 Al-Idrisi, P. Amedee Jaubert, Geographie d'Edrisi, Bertrand, Paris, 1836 ~ vol. 1 p. 394
SOURCE for Firuzabad (old)
« The site of the old town of Firūzābād, known as Gür (or Jūr to the Arabs) until 'Adud ad-Dauleh (A.D. 949-82) changed its name to Firūzābād, lies a little over 2 miles to the NW. of the present Firūzābād. The site is marked by the decayed earth ramparts and wide fosse of a ruined circumvallation, which, as the plane-table survey (Plan 1) showed, forms an exact circle 1? miles in diameter. This circular ground-plan, 'even as though drawn with compasses', to use Ibn-al-Balkhi's graphic description, 5 fully agrees with Ibn-al-Faqih's reference to Gür having been built after the model of Dārābgird. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 117
SOURCE for Giouar
« fn. 572 Route from Siraf to Giouar, or Firuz-abad. Al-Edrissi, p. 125: »
#852 Vincent, William, The commerce and navigation of the ancients in the Indian Ocean, T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, London, 1807 ~ vol. 1 p. 489 footnote
« at Giouar, or Firouzabad, an inland city, the capital of the district Ardeshir, celebrated for its gardens, vineyards, and roses, as pre-eminent in Persia as those of Pêstum in Italy. I fix upon this place, because I learn from Otter, that the river of Giouar receives a stream called Sita Rhegian (224),
fn. 224 Raiguian. Otter. »
#852 Vincent, William, The commerce and navigation of the ancients in the Indian Ocean, T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, London, 1807 ~ p. 386
SOURCE for Gor
see source « Ardašir-Xwarrah » above
« - Identification: The ruins of the circular town of Gör (modern Firūz-Abād) are located about 3 km to the west of the modern town of Firūz-Abad. The Sasanian town of Gor was in fact part of a larger collection of structures and monuments built by Ardašir I in the Firüz-Abād region. They included the palace-fortress of Qal'e-Doxtar, the larger palace in the Firūz-Abād plain, two mag- nificent rock reliefs below Qal'e-Doxtar and the hydraulic struc- tures, reported both in Kārnāmag i Ardaširi Pābgān and in the Islamic sources, to the south west of the circular town. » #3092 Negin Miri, Sasanian Pars: Historical Geography and Administrative Organization, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, 2012 ~ p. 49
SOURCE for Gour
« 4° DJOÛR (Goûr, en persan). D'après l'Alwal, 77º de longitude et 28° 25' de latitude; d'après Ibn Sa'id, 78° de longitude et 31° 30' de latitude; d'après le Rasm, 78°15' de longi- tude et 31° 30' de latitude. Troisième climat. District d'Ardaschir. Djoûr (7) est une des villes principales du Fars. Ibn Hauqal dit qu'elle est environnée d'une muraille de terre et d'un fossé. Elle a quatre portes et pos sède des cours d'eau. C'est une ville agréable remplie de vergers. On en exporte de l'eau de rose dans tous les pays. L'auteur de l'Azizi dit qu'un petit canton dépend de Djour et que de Djour à Schiraz on compte vingt- quatre parasanges. Ailleurs il dit vingt parasanges. Il ajoute que de Djour à Kâzroûn il y a seize parasanges.
fn. Cf. plus bas l'article Firouzabadh. »
#3136 Abū al-Fidā' Ismā?il ibn ?Ali, Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, Géographie d'Aboulféda Volumes 1–2, A l'imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1848 ~ Tome II Parte 2 p. 94
SOURCE for Gur
« 6. Gür, renamed Firūzābād under the Buyids. Ist., 153, seems to indicate that only the qaisum-water was the exclusive speciality of Jūr. » #2901 V Minorsky, Hudud Al Alam The Regions Of The World, Luzac and printed at the University Press, Oxford, for the Trustees of the 'EJW Gibb Memorial', London, 1937, ~ p. 377
SOURCE for Jur
« The city of Firuzâbâd was anciently called Jûr, and in Sassanian times this (in place of the later Shiraz) had been the chief town of the district of Ardashir Khurrah. Istakhri reports that the plain here had originally been a lake, this having been drained by King Ardashir, who built the city round an artificial mound-still existing here in the 4th (roth) century and later-called At-Tirbâl, the Look-out,' with a building named in Persian the Aywân (Archway), standing upon a great platform. At this time Jûr was as large as Istakhr, and the city was surrounded by a wall and ditch, with four gates, namely Báb Mihr to the east, Bâb Bahram opposite, Bâb Hurmuz to the north, and Bâb Ardashir to the south.
The name Jur, in Persian pronounced Gür, means 'a grave,' and it was held inauspicious by the courtiers of 'Adud-ad-Dawlah the Buyid, who was fond of coming here, that the Amîr should be said to be residing in Gûr, 'the grave.' Hence Jûr was renamed Fîrâzâbâd-the Abode of Luck-and so it is called at the present day. Mukaddasi, who gives the story, speaks of the great town square (Rahbah), and the beautiful rose gardens of Firûzâbâd, also of the well-cultivated country round, stretching a day's march across. Water for the town was brought from a neighbouring hill by means of a syphon tube, and according to the Persian geo- graphers there was a great castle four leagues from the town, called Kalah Saharah (or Shaharah). » #895 Le Strange, G., The lands of the Eastern Caliphate. Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur., Cambridge University Press, London, 1905, ~ pp. 255-6

R17-010 Atash-kadeh
R17-010 Atash-kadeh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: -3076056 coordinate: lat 28.898 long 52.5392
NIMA/GNS names: Ateshkadeh , Murdastan-e Atashkadeh , Murdestan , آتشکده ,
VARIANT names: Ateshkadeh ,
SOURCE for Ateshkadeh
« The Palace of Ardashir Pāpakan (in Persian: کاخ اردشير پاپکان, Kākh-e Ardashir-e Pāpakān), also known as the Atash-kadeh آتشکده, is a castle located on the slopes of the mountain on which Dezh Dokhtar is situated. Built in AD 224 by King Ardashir I of the Sassanian Empire, it is located two kilometers (1.2 miles) north of the ancient city of Gor, i.e. the old city of Artakhsher Khwarah/Khor Adashir/Gor Adesheer (Glory of [king] Ardasher) in Pars, in ancient Persia (Iran). The ancient city where the palace is located, was renamed "Peroz" (lit. victorious) after Ardashir established the Sassanian Empire by overthrowing Ardavan, the last Parthian king. After the Arabian conquest, Peroz was called Firuz, and the name remained. The modern city of Firuzabad is hence, of important significance in Persian history. » at link63

R17-011 Tang-i-Rudbar
R17-011 Tang-i-Rudbar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 28.739087 long 52.654589 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Tang-i-Rudbar ,
SOURCE for Tang-i-Rudbar
« The initial march from Firūzābād took us first over an open saddle to the SE. Then after about 6 miles it passed into a narrow winding cañon flanked by wall-like cliffs rising some 400 ft. or more above its gloomy depth. It was interesting to find here an old legend localized which is related by Istakhri in connexion with Ardashir's foundation of Gür. The site was believed to have been originally a lake, and Ardashir, after defeating his enemies near it, had the water drained off by channels and, in accordance with a vow taken before his victory, built the town there and erected a fire-temple. An elaborate story, how the king's great drainage opera- tions were effected by a wonderful cutting through a mountain, is told at length in Ibn-al-Balkhi's Färs-nameh. This legendary great cutting of King Ardashir is now connected by popular belief with the deep cañon known as Tang-i-Rudbār, from the small village picturesquely situated about a mile above the point where it debouches into the valley of the Firūzābād stream. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 130

R17-012 Rudbar
R17-012 Rudbar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Rudbal , Rudbar , رودبال ,
VARIANT names: Rudbar ,
SOURCE for Rudbar
« Rüdbar …. 10 miles S.-E. of Firüzābād. Route No. 37. » #3095 Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department, Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1916 ~ p. 167

R17-013 Babanach
R17-013 Babanach : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Baba Najim , Baba Najm , Babanach , بابا نجیم ,
VARIANT names: Babanach , Babonej , Babunaj ,
SOURCE for Babanach
« Babanach » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
« The wide trough of Babanach, reached after about 3 miles, proved to hold plenty of tree-growth and potentially fertile land now wholly given over to grazing. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 130
« Babanach » in {map#1135 U.S. Army Map Series K501: Iraq and Iran:, , , The University of Chicago fig. Firuzabad H-39W 1948} [a watch tower is indicated next to Babanach. PBR]
SOURCE for Babonej
« 6. BABONEJ-25 miles-137 miles.
I then proceeded to the village Kir, and thence over stony ground, the plain lessening as we advanced westward, and may be said to terminate at about the 6 mile west of Kir. Wo then ascended between parallel ranges of hills for about 14 miles; then descending about 2 miles by an execrable road through a valley, entered a partly- cultivated vale, possessing palm groves, a little strean, and a growth of roods, etc. The 12 mile brought us to the village Bagh Pesserler, then deserted. Prosently after we crossed hills and undulating country, more or less clothed with bushes and a sprinkling of the bennch tree. At about the 20th mile we ascended through a pretty vale, in which there was abundant pasturage, and consequently numerous scattered encampments of Ecliats. The little hamlet of Babonej, with garden-land attached, occurred at the 25th mile.Close by was a high mound, on which stands a stone octagonal tower and another hamlet, with (late groves, scattered winter-houses, and extensive stabling, all belonging to the Eel Begghi, who resorts to this s?ot in the cool weathe » #3038 Keith E. Abbott, Notes Taken on a Journey Eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, Thence Westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, London, 1857 ~ p. 172 repeated in #3091 C M Macgregor, Central Asia. Part IV. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, and history of Persia., Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1871 ~ p. 665
[above mentioned octogonal tower woud link Banonej to the watch tower at Babanach. PBR]
« We could see the cliffs, 500 feet high, at its mouth, and could trace the zigzag windings of the cleft in the face of the mountain. A road crosses the mountain and meets the river again in the plain of Babonej. I might have marched that way, but had preferred our present route, as passing through an unknown country. We were in search of an ahshdm l or encampment » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1982 ~ vol. 1 p. 98
SOURCE for Babunaj
« 146. ARBA'EH, MAHALL-I :- A district S. of Firūzabad, bounded on the N. by Firūzābād, on the S. by Galehdär and Khunj, on the E. by Simakan, Qir-o-Karzin and Afzar, on the W. by Dashti. Probable population about, 2,000. It contains the following places and villages:- ... Babunaj 28° 28' 52° 25' » #3095 Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department, Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1916 ~ p. 105
[The coordinates given above by Wilson are some 23.7kms heading 250° from the location of Babonej given by Abbott. PBR]

R17-014 Khurdashir
R17-014 Khurdashir : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Khurdashir , Kord Sheykh , Kord-e Sheykh , کرد شیخ ,
VARIANT names: Khurdashir , Khurdeshir ,
POSSIBLE LOCATION at Khurdashir FOR Bagh Pesserler [[PBR]],
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« From an almost imperceptible watershed a gradually narrowing valley with similar marks of former settled occupation led down to the small walled hamlet of Khurdeshir. There a grove of date-palms clearly showed that the limits of the garmsir or 'hot region' had been reached. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 131

R17-016 Qir-u-Karzin
R17-016 Qir-u-Karzin : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPLA2 UFI: -3080296 coordinate: lat 28.4825 long 53.0346
NIMA/GNS names: Qir , Qir va Karzin , قیر , قیر و کارزین ,
VARIANT names: Qir va Karzin ,
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R17-017 Karzin
R17-017 Karzin : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Karzin ,
VARIANT names: Karzi , Karzin ,
SOURCE for Karzi
« Karzi 20 Farsangs » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 2 vol. 2 p. 491
« Karzi, village à 10 fars, N. O. de Djaroûn [Karzi, village 10 fars, N. W. of Djaroûn] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 2 vol. 2 p. 491
SOURCE for Karzin
« Kārzin, Qir and Abzar(1). Kārzin is a medium-sized town: and Qir is a small town, as likewise is Abzar. All three are of the hot region, and there are abundant palm-trees here. The water is from the Zakan river; and in Kārzin is a strong castle, to which water is drawn up from the Zakan. fn. 1 All three famous in the times of the Arab geographers. Kārzin is now merely a village, Qir is a township, and Abzar town was probably at Nim Dih, the capital of the Afzar District, half a league east of Ab-i-Garm. » #1764 trans. G. Le Strange, The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-qulub¯ Composed by Hamd-Allāh Mustawfi of Qazwin in 740 (1340), Brill, Leiden, 1919 ~ p. 117
« From Khunj, the route leads to the major city Kārzin via Lāghir and Faryāb. (45) fn. 45 Present-day Lāghir is a small village containing a Sassanian mountain fort. Faryāb is a vacant village, in which we located abandoned buildings, possibly a caravansaray, when we visited in 2016. See Map 4. » #3344 Yasuhiro Yokkaichi, The Maritime and Continental Networks of Kish Merchants under Mongol Rule: The Role of the Indian Ocean, Fārs and Iraq, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2019 ~ p. 447

R17-018 Mubarakabad
R17-018 Mubarakabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Mobarakabad , Mubarakabad , مبارک آباد ,
VARIANT names: Mebarukabad , Mubarakabad ,
SOURCE for Mebarukabad
« 4. MEBARÚKABAD-16 miles-91 miles.
On quitting Jehrúm* we proceeded along the plain and crossed some low hills, 2 miles west of the town. This brought us into a valley, through which we passed by a very rough road. » #3091 C M Macgregor, Central Asia. Part IV. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, and history of Persia., Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1871 ~ p. 664
SOURCE for Mubarakabad
« For about 9 miles on our way up the wide valley leading to Mubārākābād, traces of former habitations and terraced fields were observed at numerous points on ground now given over to Qashqai grazing-camps. Mubarakābād, a large walled village, was found almost wholly in ruins, a condition accounted for by predatory raids and the ravages of an epidemic years before. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 132

R17-020 Jahrom
R17-020 Jahrom : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Do , Jahrom , Jahrum , جهرم , دو ,
VARIANT names: Dgiaroun , Djahrom , Djahroum , Djarom , Djaroûn , Djarroun , Djarum (Djabrom) , Gaarrom , Gahram , Gahrum , Gearon , Gerom , Giron , Gowaym , Guwaim , Isharum , Jaharan , Jahrom , Jahrum , Jaram , Jaraon , Jaron , Jaroon , Jaroone , Jarron , Jehram , Jehrum , Jowaym , Scharim , Sharon , Stadt Sharon ,
SOURCE for Dgiaroun
« we arrived at a large Kervanʃeray, which is about an hundred paces from a little Town called Dgiaroun, and is hardly worth a good Village; however there is a fair Bazar in it. » #1574 Thévenot, Jean de, The travels of Monsieur de Thévenot into the Levant : in three parts, viz. into I. Turkey, II. Persia, III. The East-Indies / newly done out of French., Printed by H. Clark for H. Faithorne [etc.], 1687 ~ vol. 2 p. 128
SOURCE for Djahrom
« Eine neuere Route führt heute von Benaru über Djuyom und Mansurabad nördlich des Kuh-e Alburs durch die Tang-e Kulin und Tang-e Khatiz nach Djahrom. [A newer route today leads from Benaru via Djuyom and Mansurabad north of the Kuh-e Albur through the Tang-e Kulin and Tang-e Khatiz to Djahrom.] » #3206 Pohanka, R, Karawanenwege und Karavanserails in Laristan: Die Strassenabschnitte Lar-Djahrom, Lar-Khundj and Lae-Bastak., Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, 1984 vol. 17:pp. 285-308 ~ p. 296
« Djahrom » in {map#1180 in #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ fig. Abb. 5 Kartenausschnitt der Provinzen Bushehr und Fars}
« Djahrom, welches man über die nördliche der beiden möglichen Routen bei km 210 erreicht, ist heute noch wie in safavidischer Zeit für seine Dattelproduktion berühmt, vom alten Kern der Stadt und besonders von den Kara- vanserails hat sich allerdings bis heute nichts erhalten. Besonders bedauerlich ist das Ver- schwinden des alten Basars von Djahrom, der nach Orta Rebelo genauso schön und groß wie der Basar von Lar gewesen sein soll. Dabei muß noch 1850 eine ganze Anzahl von Kara- vanserails in Djahrom existiert haben, Abbott nennt nicht weniger als sechs Stück für dieses Jahr, Kaempfer nennt ein großes Karavan- serail Shah Hossein", ebenso erwähnen Taver- nier, Chardin und Dupré mehrere Kara- vanserails in Djahrom, wobei auffällt, daß fast alle Reisenden darauf hinweisen, daß sich diese Bauten ein wenig westlich und aufßerhalb der eigentlichen Siedlung befinden. [Djahrom, which can be reached via the northern of the two possible routes at km 210, is still famous for its date production today, as it was in Safavid times, but nothing of the old core of the city and especially of the caravanserails has survived to this day. The disappearance of the old bazaar of Djahrom, which according to Orta Rebelo was just as beautiful and large as the bazaar of Lar, is particularly regrettable. In 1850, a large number of caravanserails must have existed in Djahrom; Abbott mentions no fewer than six for that year, Kaempfer mentions a large caravanserail "Shah Hossein", and Tavernier, Chardin and Dupré also mention several caravanserails in Djahrom, and it is striking that almost all travelers point out that these buildings are located a little to the west and outside the actual settlement.] » #3206 Pohanka, R, Karawanenwege und Karavanserails in Laristan: Die Strassenabschnitte Lar-Djahrom, Lar-Khundj and Lae-Bastak., Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, 1984 vol. 17:pp. 285-308 ~ p. 297
SOURCE for Djahroum
« Je partis de Mouchek le vingt-et-unième de mars à deux heures du matin, et ayant marché jusqu'à huit par un pays plat et pierreux, j'arrivai à la petite ville de Djahroum, [I left Mouchek on the twenty-first of March at two o'clock in the morning, and having walked until eight through a flat and stony country, I arrived at the small town of Djahroum,] » #3144 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Pascal Pia, Voyages en Perse et description de ce royaume par Jean-Babtiste Tavernier Marchand Francais, E´d. du Carrefour, Paris, 1930 ~ p. 315
SOURCE for Djarom
« Djarom » in {map#1132 Abb. 1 Karte von Iranmit Eintragung der Routen und Karawanenbauten, , , #1814 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 7:Teil 5: ~}
SOURCE for Djaroûn
« En tournant une montagne à droite, on découvre une forêt de palmiers, au milieu de laquelle est bâtie la ville de Djaroûn. Sur la pente de ce / mont est le tombeau d'un imam appelé Kha- demga. Plus loin nous laissons sur la gauche un grand caravansérail, à côté duquel est une vaste citerne, et le mausolée d'un autre saint / musulman nommé Cháh - Zadè - Hussein. Avant d'entrer dans la ville, on passe auprès de deux arches en briques, qui servent de digue contre le débordement des eaux. ... Elle avait éprouvé, dans la jour- née du 23 février, plusieurs secousses qui fi- nirent par l'écroulement de diverses maisons. La population peut être de quatre mille habi- tans, parmi lesquels on compte trente familles juives. Il y a quatre caravansérails et un petit bazard qui renferme une vingtaine de 'boutiques. [Turning a mountain to the right, we discover a forest of palm trees, in the middle of which is built the city of Djaroûn. On the slope of this / mountain is the tomb of an imam called Kha-demga. Further on we leave on the left a large caravanserai, next to which is a vast cistern, and the mausoleum of another / Muslim saint named Cháh - Zadè - Hussein. Before entering the city, we pass by two brick arches, which serve as a dike against the overflow of water. ... It had experienced, during the day of February 23, several tremors which ended with the collapse of various houses. The population may be four thousand inhabitants, among whom there are thirty Jewish families. There are four caravanserais and a small bazaar which contains about twenty shops.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 452
SOURCE for Djarroun
« et, un farsang après, Djarroun, petite ville avec un bazar et deux caravansérails, l'un en bon état, mais où il n'y avait pas de place, et l'autre en ruine, où il fallut cependant bien nous fourrer dans un coin, [and, a farsang later, Djarroun, a small town with a bazaar and two caravanserais, one in good condition, but where there was no room, and the other in ruins, where we nevertheless had to be stuffed into a corner,] » ##3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838., Librairie Encyclopédique De Roret, Paris, 1843 ~ pt.2 p. 523
SOURCE for Djarum (Djabrom)
« den 12. Dez. gereist zu dem berühmten Tamerfleck (Tamar oder Tamr ist die Dattelpalme) Djarum (Djabrom) 6 Farsach. [December 12th traveled to the famous Tamerfleck (Tamar or Tamr is the date palm) Djarum (Djabrom) 6 Farsach.] » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 114
SOURCE for Gaarrom
« The first of September in the morning, wee came to a Citie, called Gaarrom: and the same day, to a Casal, called Demonder, where standeth an high Columne alone. About Gaarrom is great store of Rice and Cotton wooll growing. And here the Sheepe have Lambs twice every yeere. » #3292 John Newberry, Two Voyages of John Newberry, in: Purchas, Samuel, Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others in 20 vols., Glasgow : J. Maclehose, , 1905, vol. 8 pp. 449-481 ~ p. 461
SOURCE for Gahram
« Gahram VI C4 Gahrum Iran
CIte de la cIrconscnptIOn (kura) d' Ardasir Hurra 107, 134, 135, 139, 153, H 263,268,286,299 Hur 46, F 203 ' - Yaq II, 167, LS 254, Schw 103, DKI 173 »#2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 49
« Gahram (3) mit gleichnamiger Stadt (4), heute Jahrum. Von der Stadt selbst wird nichts berichtet, von den Einwohnern rühmt Ibn Haukal Wohlstand) und Istahri erzählt, daß sie vorwiegend der mutalizitischen Sekte angehörten). fn. 3) Hord. 46, 7; Fak. 203, 4 (at Idrisi, Janbert 391, Gühram!). fn. 4) Is 107, 5. 4 [Gahram (3) with the town of the same name (4), today Jahrum. Nothing is reported about the town itself, Ibn Haukal praises the inhabitants as being wealthy) and Istahri reports that they mainly belonged to the Mutalizite sect). fn. 3) Hord. 46, 7; Fak. 203, 4 (at Idrisi, Janbert 391, Gühram!). fn. 4) Is 107, 5. 4] » #1717 Schwarz, Paul, Iran im Mittelalter nach arabischen Geographen, O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1896 ~ p. 103
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SOURCE for Gearon
« Il Sabato 25.partimmo a mezzodi per una comoda ſtrada; e dopo 10. ore fatte 30. miglia, per le quali paſſammo alcuni piccioli ruſcelli, giugnemmo nella Città di Gearon. Queſta Città ha più toſto ſembianza di foreſta, perche le fue cafe ſono ſparſe tra folti alberi di palme, che apportano non poca rendita coloro dat- tili, che ſono de' migliori della Perfia. [On Saturday the 25th we left at midday by a convenient route; and after 10 hours, having traveled 30 miles, over which we crossed some small streams, we reached the City of Gearon. This city has more of the appearance of a forest, because the trees are scattered among thick palm trees, which bring no small income from the palm trees, which are among the best in Persia.] » #3239 Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, Giro del mondo, del dottor D. Gio. Francesco Gemelli Careri.., stamp. di G. Roselli, Napoli, 1699 ~ pt. 2 p.267
SOURCE for Gerom
« for which, when we had traveil’d One and twenty Miles, we found at Gerom (1) a ready Medicine of the Butter of the Seed of Gourds made into an Ointment, which appeased the Inflammation by its cooling Virtue, and immediately asswaged' the Pain by Basting our selves herewith, being half Roasted. We refreshed our selves one entire Day at Geroniy where a small White Grape, without any Stone, was an excellent Cordial; fn. 1 Jahrum : the larrown of Herbert (129). "The little city of Jarron, which is rather to be called a Forrest of Palm-trees" (Tavernier, 252). The road is dangerous : "the steep mountain of Jarra, which is very high and very long : but the descent is the most dangerous that ever I saw in all my Travels" {Ibid. 252). Hedges {Diary, i, 206) speaks of "divers steep scraged Hills." The other route is also difficult (Wilson, 162). » #1591 Fryer, John M. D., A New Account of East-India and Persia in eight letters being nine years travel (Edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke), Hakluyt Society:Kraus Reprint, 1909:1967, 3 vols. ~ vol. 2 p. 202
SOURCE for Giron
« barely got out of the way of the horses. When the mountains ended, I rested a little by a cistern, and after another one and a half hours I arrived at the caravanserai where they were. This was not a nice one, and it was located a pistol shot away from the city of Jahrom. (23)On the morning of the 16th I entered the city. It is located in a rather beautiful plain. fn. 23. Jahrom (Bembo's "Giron") was a major center of textile production. » #3299 trans. Clara Bargellini ed. Anthony Welch Ambrosio Bembo, The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2007 ~ p. 296
SOURCE for Gowaym
« Gowaym - Attestations: The mint signature GW/GWDMY is thought to be representative of the town of Gowaym in Fars (40). Although the location of the mint with this signature in Fars has been confirmed through die linkages, the question of its identification with Gowaym has not yet been proven. On the other hand, two localities with this name are located in Fars, one in Ardashir Khurrah, northeast of Shiraz, which is called Guyom today, and the other one in Darabgerd, now referred to as Jowaym. However, based upon its importance in the early Islamic period, as well as its location along the major caravan routes, Mochiri has suggested that the Jowaym of Darabgerd was the mint town with the GW signature (41).- Identification: The modern town of Jowaym (Jowaym of Darabgerd Khurrah) is located 69 km southeast of Jahrom (42). Remains of a Sasanian fire temple, pointing to the existence of a Sasanian settlement in this area, are located about 40-50 km from Jowaymnear the village of Fishur (43).
#2877 Negin Miri, Historical Geography of Fars during the Sasanian Period, e-Sasanika, 2009, 10: ~ p. 13
SOURCE for Guwaim
« Die Straße von Däräbegird nach Siräf führte über Guwaim ²). fn. 2) Muk. 454, 6. [The road from Däräbegird to Siräf led via Guwaim²). fn. 2) Muk. 454, 6.] » #1717 Schwarz, Paul, Iran im Mittelalter nach arabischen Geographen, O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1896 ~ p. 103
SOURCE for Isharum
« Isharum ist eine feine Stadt und Nahrs haffter Orth: deren Innwohner Behau funge seynd fast alle viereckig erbauet von denen in der Sonnenhik gebackenen Steis nen/ haben durchaus ihre Altanen: Jes de zu vier Seiten aufgeführte Mauer hat ein einziges Dach Loch [Isharum is a fine city and a peaceful place: the dwellings of the inhabitants are almost all built square from stones baked in the sun, and have their own balconies: each wall built on four sides has a single roof hole.] » #1609 Schillinger, Franz Caspar, Persianische und Ost-Indianische Reis, Nu¨rnberg, 1707 ~ pp. 263-4
« SCHILLINGER (1700) | Isharum LEBRUN (1705) | Jaron WILSON (1908) | Jahrum » #3206 Pohanka, R, Karawanenwege und Karavanserails in Laristan: Die Strassenabschnitte Lar-Djahrom, Lar-Khundj and Lar-Bastak., original manuscript, Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, 1984 ~ table p. 14
SOURCE for Jaharan
« Les mêmes renseignements avaient apparemment été donnés aussi à Colvill, cet auteur écrivant à ce sujet:De Taherie il y a une très bonne route par la plaine de Gillodar (Gallehdar) menant à Chiraz en passant par le village de Jaharan (Djahrom). Une caravane met 8 ou 9 jours. [The same information had apparently been given to Colvill as well, this author writing on this subject:From Taherie there is a very good road through the plain of Gillodar (Gallehdar) leading to Shiraz by way of the village of Jaharan (Djahrom). A caravan takes 8 or 9 days.] » #3059 K Lindberg, Voyage dans le Sud de l'Iran : carnet de route d'un me´dicin, a` la poursuite du ver de Me´dine., C.W.K. Gleerup, Lund, 1955 ~ p. 239
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SOURCE for Jahrum
« Jahrum » in {map#1182 1000k Maps of South Asia, Survey of India in the India and Adjacent Countries series, Sheet No 010 Persia Arabia and Turkey (1915)}
SOURCE for Jaram
« Partis au lever du jour //, nous y parvinmes bientôt. II y fait très frais. Il a donné son nom de Jaram à la montagne voisine. [Leaving at daybreak //, we soon reached there. It's very cool there. He gave his name Jaram to the neighboring mountain.] » #3268 Joaquim Verissimo Serrao, Un Voyageur Portugais en Perse au début du XVIIe siècle Nicolau De Orta Rebelo, Comité National Portugais, Lisbonne, 1972 ~ p. 113
SOURCE for Jaraon
« Desen wegh met backsteenen en keyen als ge- vloert ten eynde, ende 't dorp Jaraon (2)fn. 2 Djahrüm. De reeds aangehaalde reizigers zijn eenstemmig in hun lof omtrent dit stadje, welks huizen (Chardin telde er 350, Dupré be- groot het getal inwoners op 4000) ... [This road with backstones and keys as if laid at the end, and the village of Jaraon (2) fn. 2 Jahrum. The travelers already mentioned are unanimous in their praise of this town, whose houses (Chardin counted 350, Dupré estimated the population at 4000) ...] » #3226 Cornelis Janszoon Speelman Ed. A. Hotz, Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I. Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar perzië in 1651-1652, J. Müller, 1908 ~ p. 65
SOURCE for Jaron
« Le dix-neuvième, nous en partimes far le foir, pour nous rendre à Jaron, qui n'en eſt qu'à une lieuë,nous y arrivámes à 9. heures,allâmes à un Caravanserai proche de la ville, où nous trouvames un bon puits, couvert d'une eſpece de dôme de pierre. [On the nineteenth, we left at night to go to Jaron, which is only a league away. We arrived there at 9 o'clock, went to a Caravanserai near the town, where we found a good well, covered with a kind of stone dome.] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ pp. 313-4
« Den 23. dito na 5 mylen in de Karrawaanfera.Den 24.dito na 5 mylen ruym in Jarôn. Mogag-zoekte. [The 23rd said on the 5th of March in Karrawaanfera.The 24th said on the 5th of March in Jarôn. Mogag-zoekte.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 285
SOURCE for Jaroon
« Drie broeders, van den Hertog van Lhaar, die te Jaroon woonden, quamien zyn Ed: wel een halve myl van die plaats inhaalen geleidden zyn Ed tot het Moors Tempeltje Sjaſada Hoſſein, en beſchonken hem net eenige, mondkoit. [Three brothers of the Duke of Lhaar, who lived at Jaroon, came to overtake his son: about half a mile from that place, they led his son to the Moorish temple of Shazada Hozain, and gave him some drink.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 274
SOURCE for Jaroone
« Att 4 In the Evening the 24th Sett out for Jaroone, 5 farsangs: the first two farsangs bad stoney way till you come to a small caravensaroy with a tanck of water before it; the other 3 farsangs good smooth way. Jaroone is a large pleasant town full of Date trees; good caravensaroy, may have all things needfull for travellers.
Diary of 24 February 1707/8.
Jaroone. Jahrûm. The Dgiarum of Thévenot (pp. 128-9), the Jarron of Tavernier (p. 252), the Gerom of Fryer (II, 202), the Scharim of Struys (p. 342) and the Jarroon of Hedges (p. 206). Thévenot remarks on the "large Karvanseray" and the town "on all hands encompassed with gardens full of palm-trees, which there are so numerous and grow so near one another, that they make a great forrest." Struys says of "Scharim" that it stood in the middle of a grove "altogether of date-trees," and was "a town of consider- able traffic in cotton goods, "there being very many weavers." Hedges also found that "Jarroon affords plenty of all things for the use of a traveller in these parts." Le Bruyn who stayed at Jahrûm two days in 1705 (II, 66), has an illustration of the city, "which is very mean and looks more like a village, the houses being all built of earth, and separate from one another. I saw two or three poor little mosques, in which they were performing service. As this city is full of palm-trees, it looks at a distance like a wood. This, of all the trees in that country, is what is esteemed most, both for its beauty and the goodness of the fruit, which is the best in all Persia." » #3248 Bernard P. Scattergood, Ed. Temple, Carnac Rihard, The Scattergoods and the East India Company, A Collection of Mss., Indian Antiquary, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930 vol. LIX:pt DCCXXXVI-A:pp. 33-74 ~ pp. 42 and 48
SOURCE for Jarron
« Le 28, je fis cinq lieues, la route étant, partie par des sentiers fort rudes, partie par un pays plain et uni, le long duquel on trouve plusieurs canaux profonds, et des ponts de pierre, pour passer des ruisseaux qui, dans l'hiver et au printemps, se grossissent si fort qu'on les prendroit pour des rivières. Ma traite se termina à Jarron, petite ville de trois cent cinquante maisons, [On the 28th, I traveled five leagues, the route being, part by very rough paths, part by a plain and level country, along which we find several deep canals, and stone bridges, to cross streams which, in the In winter and spring, they swell so much that they were mistaken for rivers. My trade ended in Jarron, a small town of three hundred and fifty houses,] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 8 pp. 464-5
SOURCE for Jehram
« MOGU BAY to SHIRAZ 12. JEHRAM | 180 | 219Six hours. The road is stony with some passes over hill ridges. Water is obtained from a spring led by a kanát or underground tunnel. Camp in an open desert near the village. All ordinary supplies of life obtainable. » #3334 Routes in Asia: Routes in Persia and Balochistan, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1878 ~ p. 389
SOURCE for Jehrum
« JEHRUM, vide JAHRUM. » #2878 Gazetteer of Persia vol. III., Government of India Press, Simla, 1924, ~ vol. 3 pt. 1 p. 460
SOURCE for Jowaym
« Identification: The modern town of Jowaym (Jowaym of Darabgerd Khurrah) is located69 km southeast of Jahrom (42). Remains of a Sasanian fire temple, pointing to theexistence of a Sasanian settlement in this area, are located about 40-50 km from Jowaymnear the village of Fishur (43).
SOURCE for Scharim
« Struys called Jahrom a small town, without walls, located in a date grove. The town’s trade consisted of cotton textiles and there were many weavers. The bazaar was quite pleasant, where all kinds of Indian and Persian goods were for sale, while twice a week there was a market when farmers from the neighboring villages came to town. (92) fn. 92. Winninx, 18 July (Sjaron); Thevenot 1971, vol. 2, pp. 128-29 (Dgiaroun); Kaempfer 1968, p. 115 (Djarum); Valentijn 1726, vol. 5, p. 263 (Sjaron); Herbert 1929, p. 65 (Goyoom); Strauszens 1678, p. 193 (Scharim); KA 1793, f. 994 (Jharoen); Tavernier 1930, p. 315 (Djahroum); Chardin 1811, vol. 8, pp. 465-66 (Harron) and plate LXXVII with a map of the caravanserai of Jahrum; » #3002 Willem Floor, Persian Gulf: Links with the Hinterland, Bushehr, Borazjan, Kazerun, Banu Ka`b and Bandar Abbas, Mage Publishers, Washington, 2015 ~ p. 273
« On the 6th of December we arrived / and in the afternoon we met a fellow named Stedelten/or Olek/Scharim/laying without any Red Light Districts/in the middle of a date forest. The trade of this Stebeken/and the few inhabitants of Handteeringe/contains most of the fabrics/being a star of Weavers there. It has a beautiful Bafar, or Markt, where one finds statues of merchandise with Indian and Persian handicrafts/fabrics/and precious items, except that there is a large influx of the passing Borren twice here. I stayed here for three hectic days / for us / and ours » #3243 Jan Janszoon Struys, Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige Reysen, Meurs, 1677 ~ p. 356
« The seventh I passed by one of these Caravanseras, and got that day ten Leagues, taking up my quarters in the little City of Scharim, in the middle of a Forrest of Date-trees. » #3669 Adam Olearius, Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, John Davies, The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, J. Starkey and T. Basset, 1669 ~ p. 4
SOURCE for Sharon
« Hier staan eenige huizen by, voorts is het al te maal klippig gebergte. Wy quamen in een plaats genaamd Sjaron, een vermakelyk geweit, vol dadelboomen, hebbende een zeer groote Karrawaniera; ook heb ik 'er op de geheele reize geen grooter gezien, als mede een groote Tank en water-put. Hier heeft men veel begraafplaatzen van groote Heeren. [There are a few houses here, furthermore it is a very rocky mountain range. We came to a place called Sjaron, a pleasant area full of date trees, having a very large Karrawaniera; nor have I seen a larger one during the entire journey, as well as a large tank and water well. There are many cemeteries of great lords here.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ bk. 5 p. 264
SOURCE for Stadt Sharon
« 18 July 1645 » #3230 Dagh Register gehouden bij den oppercoopman Leonard Winninx ‘tsindert den 6 Julij anno 1645 dat uijt Gamron naer Spahan vertreckt, tot den 24e November, daeraen volgende, als wanneer in gemelte Gamron wederom gearriveert is." inventory number 1152 catalogue reference number 1.04.02, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, ~ f. 361

R17-019 Qal`eh-i-Nau
R17-019 Qal`eh-i-Nau : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh Now , Qal`eh-i-Nau , Qal`eh-ye Now , قلعه نو ,
VARIANT names: Qal`eh-i-Nau ,
SOURCE for Qal`eh-i-Nau
« Qal`eh-i-Nau » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-021 Haidarabad
R17-021 Haidarabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Haidarabad , Heydarabad , حیدر آباد ,
VARIANT names: Haidarabad ,
SOURCE for Haidarabad
« Haidarabad » in {map#1085 Series 1404 World 1:500,000, Great Britain War Office and Air Ministry, 1958-, 1958, The Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) Map Collection fig. Shiraz-444-C}
« The 25th mile brought us near the village Hyderabad, and thence 4¾ miles to Jehrúm. » #3091 C M Macgregor, Central Asia. Part IV. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, and history of Persia., Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1871 ~ p. 661
« At 2½ miles a third low ridge is traversed running F. and W. across the plain, and the road passes the large walled gardens of Haidarābād, another road to Firūzābād diverging at this point up a cultivated valley, 4 miles broad at its mouth and gradually narrowing. » #3080 Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India, Mobilisation Routes In Persia (Vol. IV, Part II) (Fars, Laristan, Kerman And Yazd) British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/10, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 177

R17-022 Qutbabad
R17-022 Qutbabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kowtbabad , Qotbabad , Qutbabad , قطب آباد ,
VARIANT names: Cut-bobbo , Ikhwanabad , Khob-Abad , Kutbabad , Qutbabad ,
SOURCE for Cut-bobbo
« The next (the two and twenty of February) by the way we had fome ſport in diflod ging a wild Bore, but neither ſhot nor dogs reaching him we made Cut-bobbo our manzeil; » #1608 Herbert, Thomas, Sir, Some Yeares Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the Author., Printed by R. Bip. for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, London, 1638, ~ p. 132
« That night we made Cut-bobbaw [Qutbābād] our manzeel; » #3211 ed. Foster, William, Thomas Herbert travels in Persia (1627-1629), George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, London, 1928 ~ p. 66
SOURCE for Ikhwanabad
« Il était lié avec les shaikhs Khunji de Lar dont il vient d'être fait mention, (100) Un des soufis sunnites les plus influents en Färs à la veille de la conquête safavide, Qutb al-Din Muhammad b. Muhyi al-Din Kush- knāri, dit Qutb-i Muhyi, fonda à proximité de Jahrum une communauté qu'il appela Ikhwānābād. (101) C'est le Qutbābād actuel, à trois lieues au nord de Jahrum, au carrefour des routes de Shiraz, de Fasā et de Lär. fn. 100 Sakhawi, op. cit., VIII, no. 17, p. 37-38 (où il est dit qu'avant d'aller à Jahrum il séjourna à "Bar"; faute d'impression pour Lår? ou Bar/Bal pour Fal ?), et cf. VI, p. 306. fn. 101 Cf. un extrait de sa correspondance dans Yad-dāsht-hay-i Qazwini VI (Téhéran 1341 s.), p. 156. Voir la notice de Lāri, Mir'at al-adwär, ms. B. N. Paris, Suppl. persan 169, fol. 245a.[He was linked with the Khunji shaikhs of Lar who have just been mentioned, (100) One of the most influential Sunni Sufis in Färs on the eve of the Safavid conquest, Qutb al-Din Muhammad b. Muhyi al-Din Kushknāri, known as Qutb-i Muhyi, founded a community near Jahrum which he called Ikhwānābād. (101) This is the current Qutbābād, three leagues north of Jahrum, at the crossroads of the roads of Shiraz, Fasā and Lär. fn. 100 Sakhawi, op. cit., VIII, no. 17, p. 37-38 (where it is said that before going to Jahrum he stayed at "Bar"; misprint for Lår? or Bar/Bal for Fal?), and cf. VI, p. 306. fn. 101 Cf. an extract from his correspondence in Yad-dāsht-hay-i Qazwini VI (Tehran 1341 ff.), p. 156. See the notice of Lāri, Mir'at al-adwär, ms. B. N. Paris, Suppl. Persian 169, fol. 245a.] » #893 Aubin, Jean, La Survie de Shilāu et la route du Khunj-o-Fāl, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1969, 7:21-37 ~ p. 33
SOURCE for Khob-Abad
« A une lieue de la jonction des deux rou- tes, nous apercevons le village de Khob-Abad. Le chemin est uni et bordé de champs plantés de tembeki. [A league from the junction of the two roads, we see the village of Khob-Abad. The path is level and bordered by fields planted with tembeki.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 456
SOURCE for Kutbabad
« Kutbābād » in Map 1. The routes from Shiraz to the Gulf via Lår (1638-1706). (After Jacqueline Calmard, Les routes de Chiraz au Golfe Persique.) #2645 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, Brill, Leiden, ~ vol. 5 p. 666
SOURCE for Qutbabad
« At 1 mile track bifurcates, north to Khafr, south to Haidarābād; take south track. At 2 miles track bifurcates again just west of Jumgun; many gardens and excellent water from qanāts. One track goes to Khafr, the S. one to Haidarābād. Take latter, and reach last named at 3 miles, walled village: water from ganāt. Track here bifurcates north to Qutbābād, S. to Bab Arab and Deh Zir; take S. track. At 10 miles date groves of Bab' Arab and Deh Zir at foot tail of Küh-i-Fasā are visible. Bāb' Arab bears S.-E., Deh Zir E. At this point track diverges direct to Deh Zir, reached at 16 miles. Ab-i- Fasā dry in summer and always fordable, crossed at 12 miles. At 14 miles pass water (brackish) and cultivation. At 16 miles walled village of Deh Zir, walled gardens. Kalantar Muhammd
Hussain Khan, of bad reputati » #3113 Routes in Persia. vol. III, part I., Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1918 ~ p. 136

R17-023 Mukhak
R17-023 Mukhak : place IRN (caravanserai)
NIMA/GNS feature: RHSE UFI: 10391617 coordinate: lat 28.7265 long 53.461
NIMA/GNS names: Karvansara-ye Shah `Abbasi , کاروانسرای شاه عباسی ,
Supplement: karvansaraye shah ebasi mokhak کاروانسرای شاه عباسی مخک
VARIANT names: Carvanfera Moggeck , Karavanserail Mokhak , Karvansara-ye Shah Abbasi (Mokhak) , Mecocal , Meggeck (Muhkak) , Meggek , Mich-geck-fogte , Mocach , Mochai Sugta , Mochak , Mochock Suckta , Mocock Sugta , Mogagzoekte , Mohack , Mokak , Mokha , mokhak caravanserai 1 , Moocack Sookta , Mouchek , Moukak , Moukhakh , Mukhak , Mukhak , Musak , square caravanserai (Figueroa) ,
SOURCE for Carvanfera Moggeck
« 19 July 1645 » #3230 Dagh Register gehouden bij den oppercoopman Leonard Winninx ‘tsindert den 6 Julij anno 1645 dat uijt Gamron naer Spahan vertreckt, tot den 24e November, daeraen volgende, als wanneer in gemelte Gamron wederom gearriveert is." inventory number 1152 catalogue reference number 1.04.02, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, ~ f. 361
SOURCE for Karavanserail Mokhak
« Karavanserail Mokhak (Taf. 23; 24,1) (Abb. 5; 190) 130Lage: 30 km südöstlich des Karavanserails Asemun- gerd, 23 km westlich von Qotb Abad und (Straße über Qotb Abad) 41 km nördlich von Djahrom, in + 1185 m ü. N. N., an der alten Hauptstraße von Shiraz über Djahrom und Lar nach Bandar-e Abbas. Am Ort sind ein größeres (qadjari- sches), ein kleineres (safavidisches) Karavanserail, die Spuren eines kleinen, älteren Baues von 24 × 24 m Außenmaßen und 17 x 17 m Hofabmessungen, eine Zisterne und ein Cahartaq- Emamzadeh voneinander zu unterscheiden (Abb. 190).Das größere Karavanserail:Typ: Hofkaravanserail mit vier Iwanen, zwei Stallabtei- Jungen im rückwärtigen Flügel, breit gelagertem Portalbau und Wohnplattform in der Hofmitte. Abmessungen: Außenmaße 58,20 × 48,50 m, Hofabmes- sungen 36 × 36 m (Abb. 191), Höhe der Hoffassade 5,20 m, Höhe des Portalbaus 9,70 m (Abb. 192). Datierung: Qadjarisch, 19. Jahrhundert. Das kleinere Karavanserail:Typ: Hofkaravanserail mit zwei Iwanen und im Westen angebautem Stalltrakt. Rundtürme an den Ecken und an den Courtinen. In der Hofmitte befindet sich ein Podest.Abmessungen: Außenmaße ohne Turmvorsprünge (einschließlich des Anbaus) 42,50 × 32 m, Hofabmessungen 25 × 19,50 m (Abb. 193), Höhe des Gebäudes ca. 4,30 m (Abb. 194).Der Abanbar (Zisterne):13,80 m äußerer Durchmesser, Kuppelhöhe über dem Boden 5,40 m. Die Zisterne ist etwa 6 m eingetieft (Abb. 195) und in Bruchstein mit Verputz erbaut.fn. 130 Die Gebäude des Karawanenhaltepunktes Mokhlak wurden am 28. 2. 1977 vermessen. [Karavanserail Mokhak (Plate 23; 24.1) (Fig. 5; 190) 130Location: 30 km southeast of the Asemungerd caravanserail, 23 km west of Qotb Abad and (road via Qotb Abad) 41 km north of Djahrom, at + 1185 m above sea level. N. N., on the old main road from Shiraz via Djahrom and Lar to Bandar-e Abbas. At the site, one can distinguish between a larger (Qadjar), a smaller (Safavid) caravan serail, the traces of a small, older building with external dimensions of 24 × 24 m and courtyard dimensions of 17 × 17 m, a cistern and a Cahartaq-Emamzadeh (Fig . 190).The larger caravanserail:Type: Court caravanserail with four iwans, two stable abbey boys in the rear wing, a wide portal structure and living platform in the middle of the courtyard. Dimensions: external dimensions 58.20 × 48.50 m, courtyard dimensions 36 × 36 m (Fig. 191), height of the courtyard facade 5.20 m, height of the portal building 9.70 m (Fig. 192). Dating: Qajar, 19th century. The smaller caravanserail:Type: Court caravanserail with two iwans and a stable wing attached to the west. Round towers at the corners and on the courts. There is a platform in the middle of the courtyard.Dimensions: External dimensions without tower projections (including the extension) 42.50 × 32 m, courtyard dimensions 25 × 19.50 m (Fig. 193), height of the building approx. 4.30 m (Fig. 194).The Abanbar (cistern):13.80 m external diameter, dome height above the ground 5.40 m. The cistern is about 6 m deep (Fig. 195) and built of quarry stone with plaster.fn. 130 The buildings of the Mokhlak caravan stop were surveyed on February 28, 1977.] » #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ pp. 106-8
SOURCE for Karvansara-ye Shah Abbasi (Mokhak)
SOURCE for Mecocal
« The second day of September, we came to Mecocal, where we had stinking water: and the same day payed a dutie of two Tanger upon every Bar. » #3292 John Newberry, Two Voyages of John Newberry, in: Purchas, Samuel, Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others in 20 vols., Glasgow : J. Maclehose, , 1905, vol. 8 pp. 449-481 ~ p. 461
SOURCE for Meggeck (Muhkak)
« Meggeck (Muhkak) for each carga four qazbekis for gūshi, but with a small present one may have to pay only a quarter or at maximum half of this amount. » #3297 John Emerson, Rahdars and Their Tolls in Safavid and Afsharid Iran, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1987 vol. 30:no. 3:pp. 318-327 ~ p. 321
SOURCE for Meggek
« 's Avonts ongeveer vijff mijlen gereden wesende, quamen ten ses uuren in de kustplaats Meggek (2), alleen sonder meer huysen op den weg gelegen, alwaar een dienaar van den gouverneur, om nog hier 't nodige te besorgen von- den, die fn. 2 Mükhak (Simla kaart) een, ook nog tijdens Dupré, geheel alleen staande onaanzienlijke karavanserai met slecht water. Slechts Herbert spreekt van vier graven van Mohammed, schriftgeleerden, die hij hier aanwezig vond. Fryer heeft. Mocock-Sügta, De Bruyn Mich-Geck-sogle. Hoe zij aan dat laatste woord gekomen zijn, is duister (sakhté = ge- maakt, sakhté gewogen, sukhte verbrand). Op zijn terugreis van Datavia naar Isfahan spelt De Brayn den naam juist: Moogack. [In the evening we drove about five miles and arrived at six o'clock in the coastal town of Meggek (2), situated alone without any houses on the road, where we found a servant of the governor, who had to take care of everything necessary here. fn. 2 Mükhak (Simla map) an insignificant caravanserai with bad water, also during Dupré, standing entirely alone. Only Herbert speaks of four tombs of Mohammed, scribes, which he found here. Fryer has. Mocock-Sügta, De Bruyn Mich-Geck-sogle. How they arrived at that last word is unclear (sakhté = made, sakhté weighed, sakhte burned). On his return journey from Datavia to Isfahan, De Brayn spelled the name correctly: Moogack.] » #3226 Cornelis Janszoon Speelman Ed. A. Hotz, Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I. Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar perzië in 1651-1652, J. Müller, 1908 ~ p. 72
SOURCE for Mich-geck-fogte
« Comme la li- tiere, qui étoit portée par des hom- mes, n'avançoit guére, nous n'arri- vames qu'à minuit au Caravanserai de Mich-geck-fogte, après une traite de trois lieuës. [As the litter, which was carried by men, made little progress, we did not arrive until midnight at the Caravanserai of Mich-geck-fogte, after a journey of three leagues.] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ p. 313
SOURCE for Mocach
« until the 21st hour of the 17th. We traveled through beautiful and fully cultivated countryside. There were many villages and gardens all around, which made a beautiful view. I observed that they were cutting wheat at that time and that it was very abundant. The climate is not very different from ours. We also passed several pleasant hills, and at the 6th hour of the night we stopped in a small caravanserai called Mokhaq. (24) There, since there is no nearby town, some people live and sell foodstuffs. fn. 24. Bembo's "Mocach." » #3299 trans. Clara Bargellini ed. Anthony Welch Ambrosio Bembo, The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2007 ~ p. 296
SOURCE for Mochai Sugta
« Den 11. dito trokken wy over een steenagtig gebergte, zagen geen dorpen; maar eenige veehoeders-hutten, en qua- men tot Mochai Sugta. Hier ſtaan z Karrawanfara's, een koſtelyke groote nieuwe, en een oude vervallene.Agter deze Karrawanſara's ſtaan twee koſtelyke nieuwe. overwelfde Tanken. Wy quamen ontrent midder nagt in de Manſel; [On the 11th day we passed over a stony mountain range and saw no villages; only a few herdsmen's huts, and came to Mochai Sugta. Here are two Karrawanfaras, a beautiful large new one, and an old dilapidated one. Behind these Karrawanfaras are two beautiful new ones. vaulted tanks. We arrived at the Manſel about midnight;] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ bk. 5 p. 263
SOURCE for Mochak
« The 28 daye we traveled along a valley weh is fruitful and pies ant ; it aboundes in come and date trees. Here as we traveled, haueing out gon our caphelow,l we mett a sheparde weh played on his pipe; here we rested an howre or two wth this shepard vntil our caravane overtooke vs; then we tooke our leaues from the shepard and rewarded him for his paynes. This night we came [to] Mochak [Mukhak], a caravanserow lyinge in a very craggi place. This daye we came 6 lges.» #3214 Stodart, Robert; introduction and notes by Sir. E. Denison Ross, The Journal of Robert Stodart: Being an account of his experiences as a member of Sir Dodmore Cotton's Mission in Persia in 1628-29. Published from the unique manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library, Luzac and Co, London, 1935 ~ p. 79
SOURCE for Mochock Suckta
« About 6 in the Evening sett out for Mochock Suckta, 7 forsangs, pretty good way. Past by Asmungerd, a good caravensaroy, about 2 farsangs from Gossaw. Arrived here about 2 in the morning, an extroardin[ar]y Caravensaroy; a large hill just before the interry.
note: Mochock Suckta. Mukhak. Suckta probably=sokhta, 'burnt': the Mukhek of Wilson's map. See Fryer, II, 215, n. 1. Thévenot (p. 128) calls it Mouchek, and Hedges (I, 206) found a "large convenient Caravan-Serai at "Moocack Sookta", with "good water and no want of provisions." Le Bruyn also halted at the "Caravanserai of Michgeck Sogte" in 1705 (II, 65). » #3248 Bernard P. Scattergood, Ed. Temple, Carnac Rihard, The Scattergoods and the East India Company, A Collection of Mss., Indian Antiquary, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930 vol. LIX:pt DCCXXXVI-A:pp. 33-74 ~ pp. 42 and 48
SOURCE for Mocock Sugta
« At Midnight we came to Mocock Sugta (1) (i.e. a dry Clove) Twenty two Miles, having forded several Plashes where flourished lascivious Shrubs, more like Southernwood than Osiers, till we were inclosed again in the Mountains. fn. 1
Mukhek in Wilson's map. If Fryer's derivation be correct, the proper form is Mekhah Sükhtah or Sükhah. Hedges (Diary, i, 206) calls it Moocack Sookta: "here we had ye best musk melons that ever I saw of ye growth of Cossir." "Mohack our next (in which are buried Mahomet, Hodge, Izmael, and Ally), (four great Mussulmannish Doctors, intombed here 400 years ago), resorted to with no small reverence" (Herbert, 132). » #1591 Fryer, John M. D., A New Account of East-India and Persia in eight letters being nine years travel (Edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke), Hakluyt Society:Kraus Reprint, 1909:1967, 3 vols. ~ vol. 2 p. 205
SOURCE for Mogagzoekte
« Den 30. dito na middernacht verreisde zyn Ed:, en quam, nas mylen rydens, in de Karrawaanſera Mogagzoekte. [On the 30th after midnight his wife traveled and, after my journey, searched for Mogag in the Karrawaanſera.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 274
« Den 23. dito na 5 mylen in de Karrawaanfera.Den 24.dito na 5 mylen ruym in Jarôn. Mogag-zoekte. [The 23rd said on the 5th of March in Karrawaanfera.The 24th said on the 5th of March in Jarôn. Mogag-zoekte.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 285
SOURCE for Mohack
« Mohack our next(in which are buried Mahomet, Hodge, Izmael, and Ally, foure great Muffulmannish Doctors, intombd here 400 yeares ago, » #1608 Herbert, Thomas, Sir, Some Yeares Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the Author., Printed by R. Bip. for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, London, 1638, ~ p. 132
SOURCE for Mokak
« Il cammino, che poi fi fece, fu per terreno feminato di xiſo (dove vidi i primidattili) e pofcia arido fino al Karvanſerà di Mokak, dove seſtammo dopo 25. miglia, e otto ore di cammino. [The journey that we then made was over rough terrain ... In Mokak fono due Karvanſerà; il nuovo, e'l vec. chio, il quale ha biſogno di poca ripara zione, ma traſcurano i Maomettani di fargliela, per l'inchinazione che hanno a fabbricar di nuovo(where I saw the primadactyls) and then arid until the Karvanſerà of Mokak, where we stopped after 25 miles and eight hours of walking. ... In Mokak there are two Karvanſerà; the new is the old. man, who needs little repair, but the Mohammedans neglect to do it for him, due to the inclination they have to build a new] » #3239 Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, Giro del mondo, del dottor D. Gio. Francesco Gemelli Careri.., stamp. di G. Roselli, Napoli, 1699 ~ pt. 2 pp. 266-7
SOURCE for Mokha
« Persian text omitted. the road is located on the mountain slope on the right side. In Mokha , there is a caravanserai, four ponds, a tower, ten people and a running spring. » #3228 Sadid al-Saltaneh, Mohammad'Ali Khan, Safarnameh-ye Sadid al-Saltaneh, Bihnashr, Tehran, 1883 ~ p. 584
SOURCE for mokhak caravanserai 1
« mokhak Caravanserai 1 Fars Jahrom Fars, km 30 of Jahrom-Shiraz road 6784 10/10/2002 Qajariyeh » #3368 Asar-e Sabti, List of Iranian national monuments (فهرست اثار ملی ایران), (Version 90 08 29): ~ registration number 6784
« . It seems that this caravanserai was built by Haj Mohammad Hassan Khan (the ruler of Jahrom) in 1250 AH (601). This caravanserai is currently used as a sheep pen. » #3365 Majid Mansouri, Archaeological Survey of the Kordian District, Jahrom, Fars, Iran (In Persian), Payam Baratshenas Magazine, 2015 yr.12:issue 23: ~ p. 88
SOURCE for Moocack Sookta
« August 20.-We rose from Jarroon and lodged at Moocack Sookta, a large, convenient Caravan-Sarai; good water, and no want of provisions. Here we had y best musk melons that ever I saw of yo growth of Cossir. »#3146 Yule, Henry Colonel, The Diary Of William Hedges, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1889 ~ vol. 1 p. 206
SOURCE for Mouchek
« that we arrived at a little Kervanʃeray, called Mouchek, ftanding by it ſelſ, and built in ſtony ground ſurrounded with Hills: about ſome hundred paces behind this Kervanʃeray there is a great round Ciſtern, four or five Fathom in Diametre, and is very deeps it is covered with a great Dome of rough ſtone, that hath ſix Entrics, by ſo many Doors that are round it, by which they go in to draw water » #1574 Thévenot, Jean de, The travels of Monsieur de Thévenot into the Levant : in three parts, viz. into I. Turkey, II. Persia, III. The East-Indies / newly done out of French., Printed by H. Clark for H. Faithorne [etc.], 1687 ~ vol. 2 p. 128
« J'arrivai donc le vingtième de mars à dix heures du matin, à un car- vansera appelé Mouchek, qui est une seule maison au pied d'un rocher. Il ya une source d'eau à cinq cents pas, mais c'est une eau chaude et qui a un goût de soufre, de sorte qu'à peine les bêtes en veulent boire. [So I arrived on the twentieth of March at ten o'clock in the morning, at a caravanserai called Mouchek, which is a single house at the foot of a rock. There is a spring of water five hundred paces away, but it is hot water and has a taste of sulfur, so that the animals hardly want to drink it.] » #3144 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Pascal Pia, Voyages en Perse et description de ce royaume par Jean-Babtiste Tavernier Marchand Francais, E´d. du Carrefour, Paris, 1930 ~ p. 314
SOURCE for Moukak
« Le 27, je fis sept lieues par un chemin assez rude et raboteux, au bout desquelles je mis pied à terre à un des plus méclians gites de la route: c'est un petit caravanserai détruit, qu'on appelle Moukak (1), situé entre des montagnes(1) Herbert écrit Mohak et ajoute qu'on voit dans ce village ou cette station (Manzel), les tombeaux de quatre grands docteurs musulmans (dont il altère les noms) très révéres, qui y sont enterrés depuis quatre cents ans. Some yeares travels, etc., p. 136, on lit Moskak dans la traduction du même ouvrage intitulée: Rela- tion du Voyage de Perse et des Indes, pag. 218, et Maliek dans Thévenot et dans Tavernier. (L-s.) [On the 27th, I traveled seven leagues along a rather rough and rugged path, at the end of which I dismounted at one of the most unsavory lodges on the road: it was a small destroyed caravanserai, called Moukak (1), located between mountains(1) Herbert writes Mohak and adds that we see in this village or this station (Manzel), the tombs of four great and very revered Muslim doctors (whose names he alters), who have been buried there for four hundred years. Some yeares travels, etc., p. 136, we read Moskak in the translation of the same work entitled: Relation of the Voyage of Persia and the Indies, pag. 218, and Maliek in Thévenot and in Tavernier. (L-s.)] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 8 p. 462
SOURCE for Moukhakh
A cinq cents pas sont deux caravansérails, séparés par un filet d'eau qui prend sa source dans le mont près duquel ils sont batis. Ce lieu inhabité s'appelle Moukhakh. Des percepteurs d'un droit de péage pour le compte du gouverneur de Djároûn, demeurent dans l'un des caravanserails. Ce droit est de quatre châhis par charge de cha- mean, et de deux par charge de mulet. Il pro- duit à peine deux cents tumans par an, les ca- ravanes n'étant pas fréquentes pendant l'hiver. [Five hundred paces away are two caravanserais, separated by a stream of water which has its source in the mountain near which they are built. This uninhabited place is called Moukhakh. Collectors of a toll on behalf of the governor of Jároûn, live in one of the caravanserais. This toll is four shâhis per load of shâmean, and two per load of mule. It produces scarcely two hundred tumans per year, the caravans not being frequent during the winter.]
SOURCE for Mukhak
« At 16 miles the large caravansarai of Mukhak is reached. Water. Two cisterns and a small spring. » #3080 Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India, Mobilisation Routes In Persia (Vol. IV, Part II) (Fars, Laristan, Kerman And Yazd) British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/10, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 178
« Mukhak (3,800') 28 41 53 24 A large sarai 16 m. N.-E. of Jahrüm, on Route 28, amongst low ridges which occupy whole of main valley; water from 2 cisterns and small spring: supplies scanty. grazing fair. In an old Shah Abbās sarzi close to sbove the following partially obliterated inscription was found, cut deep into the plaster: ... Ficilia Utilia ... Mers 1678. (Wilson, 1907.) » #3095 Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department, Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1916 ~ p. 201
« Mukhak » in {map#1203 in #1241 Wilson, Sir Arnold T., Notes on a Journey from Bandar Abbas to Shiraz via Lar, in February and March, 1907, The Geographical Journal, London, 1908 (Feb.) 31:2:152-69 ~ fig. Country between Bandar Abbas abd Siraz}
« The karavansaray of Mukhak was small, isolated and situated in a craggy place and had good water and no lack of provisions. Hedges ate there the best musk melons that he had ever seen. About some hundred paces behind the karavansaray was a great cistern, four to five fathoms in diameter, very deep and covered by a dome. There was only one house near the karavansaray, while the only drinkable water was in a cistern at one musket shot's distance. However, a Jew had fallen into the cistern and therefore the Muslims did not use it any more, because its water had become unclean, Tavernier observed. Chardin reported that the small karavansaray had been destroyed, and he considered this one of the sorriest halting places he had ever stayed in; also, its water was terrible in quality. In 1685, the karavansaray had been recently built of freestone by a merchant. It was still situated in the middle of nowhere, though it now also housed a number of rähdärs and had two new covered cisterns. Next to it was a warm spring in which one could take a bath. The old dilapidated karavansaray was still standing.(88)
fn. 88 Stodart, p. 80 (Mochak); Thevenot, vol. II, p.128 (Mouckek); Kaempfer, Reisetagebücher, p. 113 (Musak); Valentijn, vol. V, »
#1169 Floor, Willem, The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1999, 37:67-94 ~ p. 76
SOURCE for Musak
« den 11. Dez. in 9½ Stunden gereist nach der Karawanserei Musak 7 Farsach ... Weiter S+O zur Karawanserei Musak 3 Farsach. Diese Karawanserei, ziemlich neu und gut, liegt allein zwischen wüsten Felsen und Hügeln. Es residierten unter dem Portal verschiedene, mit Gewehr wohl versehene Radaren. Sie ist von einem Kaufmann unlängst erbaut von Feldsteinen, hat schöne Kammern und Gewölbe mit Schornsteinen [December 11th traveled in 9½ hours to the caravanserai Musak 7 Farsach ... Continue S+O to the caravanserai Musak 3 Farsach. This caravanserai, quite new and good, lies alone between desert rocks and hills. Various radars equipped with rifles resided under the portal. It was recently built of field stones by a merchant and has beautiful chambers and vaults with chimneys] » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 113
SOURCE for square caravanserai (Figueroa)
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« This caravanserai was quite different from the others we had seen in the kingdom of Fārs. It was [fol. 221v] square and had four symmetrical strong and high walls. There was one big gate where one could enter on horseback. Inside there was a square big enough for many people, horses, and the rest of the baggage animals. In the center of the square was a square stone ledge two feet high and over twenty feet wide and long, where a few people could take their leisure. Surrounding it on all sides were mangers where the travelers’ horses and mules could feed. There were chambers on all four interior walls of this large square, each of them two feet off the ground. Their entryways were as big as the chambers themselves, and these were consequently completely open to view, though they were covered by a vault. Some of them had a narrow little bedroom big enough for two beds and nothing else, with doors so narrow and low that they were exactly as big as a man. These rooms were especially intended for women to stay in so that they would not be in plain sight while they were inside the chambers. » #2651 trans. and ed; Jeffrey S. Turley and George Bryan Souza, The Commentaries of D. García de Silva y Figueroa on his Embassy to Shah ʿAbbās I of Persia on Behalf of Philip III, King of Spain, Brill, Leiden, 2017, ~ p. 328-9

R17-016a Qal`eh-ye Parian
R17-016a Qal`eh-ye Parian : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: 180190 coordinate: lat 28.460556 long 53.045278
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh-ye Parian ,
VARIANT names: Qal`eh-ye Parian , Qal'a-i-Parian ,
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« About half a mile to the east of Qir village and the date-palm groves which surround it there rises a high and conspicuous mound, crowned by a massive fort, reconstructed by Saulat-ud-Dauleh, to serve his hold over the tract all owned by Qashqai chiefs. It is known as Qal'a-i-Parian. A large palace-like structure within, which the Ilkhāni had built for his own use, and the quarters around intended for his armed host mark the fort as one of the chief halting-places on those seasonal moves which Saulat-ud-Dauleh was accustomed to share year by year with his semi-nomadic tribesmen. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 131

R17-016b Qal'a-i-gabri
R17-016b Qal'a-i-gabri : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 28.509739 long 53.036299 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Qal'a-i-gabri ,
SOURCE for Qal'a-i-gabri
« From Qir I visited a ruined hill stronghold known as Qal'a-i-gabri ('Fort of the Zoroastrians'), situated about 2 miles to the north of the village. It crowns the crest of a very steep rocky ridge, separated from the hill-chain behind by a narrow gorge difficult of access. A stiff climb over masses of limestone debris brought us to a rock-hewn well, about 10 ft. in diameter at a height of some 150 ft. above the valley plain. By a still more difficult scramble over bare rock for about the same height, the eastern extremity of the stronghold was reached. The top of the ridge, here only about 40 yards across, widens to some 150 yards at the western end, and the whole of the top is defended by walls built with rough blocks of stone set in mortar. They are much ruined throughout, standing nowhere to more than 3-4 ft. in height. A second line of wall runs within, and parallel to, the southern curtain. Cross walls dividing the space between the two show that provision of quarters was intended. Within the circumvallated area which extends for close on 500 yards from east to west there can be traced two oblong cisterns without vaults and remains of some badly ruined structures. There can be no doubt that the ruined fortification, unassailable before the introduction of firearms, is old and was intended as a temporary place of refuge. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ pp. 131-2

R17-019a Tul-kusch
R17-019a Tul-kusch : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS independent coordinate: lat 28.405902 long 53.372612 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Tul-kusch ,
SOURCE for Tul-kusch
« On the wide plateau crossed between the difficult passes of Tul-küsch and Na'l-shikan (4,500 ft.) we saw numerous Qashqai camps, the last to be met in that direction. On the Na'l-shikan pass remains of an old built-up track could be traced, but there were many places where packs could pass only by being manhandled. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 132-3

R17-019b Na'l-shikan
R17-019b Na'l-shikan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 28.473013 long 53.463804 † basis (a)
VARIANT names: Na'l-shikan ,
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« This threatened curtailment of my programme made me hasten my move to Jahrum, an important oasis through which the route to Lar would have to lead. The long march which brought us there on December 15th lay to the NE. across a succession of steep limestone ridges very trying to our mules. On the wide plateau crossed between the difficult passes of Tul-kusch and Na'l-shikan (4,500 ft.) we saw numerous Qashqai camps, the last to be met in that direction. On the
This content downloaded from » #3038 Keith E. Abbott, Notes Taken on a Journey Eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, Thence Westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, London, 1857 ~ p. 132
« On the wide plateau crossed between the difficult passes of Tul-küsch and Na'l-shikan (4,500 ft.) we saw numerous Qashqai camps, the last to be met in that direction. On the Na'l-shikan pass remains of an old built-up track could be traced, but there were many places where packs could pass only by being manhandled. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 132-3

R17-024 Taduwan
R17-024 Taduwan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Madavan , Madevan , Tadavan , Taduwan , تادوان ,
VARIANT names: dorp Tadderwangh , Dottiuan , Tadavan , Tada-woen , Tadejun (Tadewun) , Tadivan , Tadovan , Taduan , Taduwan , Tadwan , Tudun ,
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« August 21. We rose from Moocack Sookta, and went 4 Farsanges or leagues out of our way to see Dottiuan, situated in the most pleasant and fruitful plaine (as reported) in all Persia, where we lodged this night in a garden belonging to yeDuch (the same affording no Caravansarai), near a small rivulett that runs through it. The Gardener gave us store of Figgs (yeleast, but as good as I have seen), Grapes, Pomegranetts, Peaches, and Wall-nutts, all very good of their kind. The towne is full of Gardens, all plentifully watered with Cutts out of a River running by it, out of which we had brought us two good dishes of Fish, which cost but 1 Mamoodee: 2 of them were 20 inches long apiece. This is the most pleasant, fruitfull place I have yet seen in Persia. We are promised a guide on our way this Afternoon (God willing) to Cossir, who will show us certain great Vaults under y Rocks, large enough, some of them, to hold 1000 men. » #3146 Yule, Henry Colonel, The Diary Of William Hedges, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1889 ~ vol. 1 pp. 206-7
SOURCE for Tadavan
« the traveller arrived at the village of Tadavan. This was a pleasant, large village which had much water, cattle, fruit and large fish. Speelman added that it had not more than one hundred mud dwellings and that it was a vaqf. Tavernier observed that the road via Tadavan was not the normal one taken by caravans, which forked right, whilst he himself went straight onwards, arriving at a plain, called Tadavan, which was full of orange, lemon and pomegranate orchards. Its streams were also filled with various kinds of fish, while the Europeans living in Bandar 'Abbas often spent the summer here.
fn. 87 Kaempfer, Reisetagebucher, p 113 (Tadejun; Tadewun); Winninx, 19 July and 11 November (Taddervangh); Thevenot, vol. II, p. 127 (Tadivan); Speelman, pp. 72-3 (Taduwan), who also mentioned the old historical buildings in the mountains and gave a very detailed description of his visit to this site, ibid., pp. 75-81; Tavernier, pp. 311-14 (Dadivan); Hedges, pp. 206-7 (Dottiuan); Chardin, vol. VIII, pp. 463-4 (Taduan); LeBrun, vol. II, p. 313 (Tadawoen). »
#1169 Floor, Willem, The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1999, 37:67-94 ~ p. 76
SOURCE for Tada-woen
« Nous pourfuivimes notre chemin à 6. heures du matin,paffimes encore à côté de plufieurs jolies maifonsde beaux jardins, où nous nous repofâmes à l'ombre, après une traite de 3. lieuës, le foleil édr. tant fort ardent,pluſieurs de nos gens incommodez. Ce jardin eit fitué dans le bourg de Tada-woen, qui ne fublifte que de fes jardins, qui font remplis de grenadiers, d'orangers, de figuiers [We continued our journey at 6 o'clock in the morning, passing again next to several pretty houses and beautiful gardens, where we rested in the shade, after a journey of 3 leagues, le foleil edr. so very ardent, several of our people are inconvenienced. This garden was located in the village of Tada-woen, which only has gardens, which are filled with pomegranate trees, orange trees, fig trees] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ pp. 313-3
SOURCE for Tadejun (Tadewun)
« ½ Farsach, Tadejun oder Tadewun (Tâdawân), ein nach derselben Landschaft benanntes Dorf [½ Farsach, Tadejun or Tadewun (Tâdawân), a village named after the same landscape] » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 113
SOURCE for Tadivan
« at the foot of a Hill, there is a Village call Tadivan, where the River of Paira loſes it ſelſ and ends. » #1574 Thévenot, Jean de, The travels of Monsieur de Thévenot into the Levant : in three parts, viz. into I. Turkey, II. Persia, III. The East-Indies / newly done out of French., Printed by H. Clark for H. Faithorne [etc.], 1687 ~ vol. 2 p. 127
SOURCE for Tadovan
« Tadovan » in {map#1180 in #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ fig. Abb. 13 Karawanenwege zwischen Firuzabad und Djahrom}
« Tadovan » in {map#1180 in #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ fig. Abb. 186 Karavanserail Aliabad (Gasun), Lageskizze}
SOURCE for Taduan
« Entre Kafer et Moukak, à demi-lieue du grand chemin, sur la droite, il y a un bourg nommé Taduan (1), qui est un des plus délicieux endroits de la Perse. Il est situé au bout d'une plaine, qui s'étend demi-lieue en longueur, et qui est toute couverte de jardins. fn. 1 Thévenot (tom. IV, pag. 446) nomme ce village Tadivan, et le place sur la route de Lår, à 6 ághatch de Pâisa. C. le Bruyn (tom. IV, pag. 45g) le nomme Tadavoun, et dit que les nom- breux et fertiles jardins qui en dépendent sont fertilisés par les caux des montagnes environnantes, et renferment une quantité de grenadiers, de figuiers, d'orangers, de péchers, de palmiers. Les habitans trouvent de quoi subsister abondamment dans le produit de leurs récoltes, dont ils yont, ou plutôt alloient vendre les fruits à Isspahan. (L-s.) [Between Kafer and Moukak, half a league from the main road, on the right, there is a town called Taduan (1), which is one of the most delicious places in Persia. It is situated at the end of a plain, which extends half a league in length, and which is entirely covered with gardens. fn. 1 Thévenot (tom. IV, pag. 446) names this village Tadivan, and places it on the road to Lår, 6 ághatch from Pâisa. C. le Bruyn (tom. IV, pag. 45g) names it Tadavoun, and says that the numerous and fertile gardens which depend on it are fertilized by the waters of the surrounding mountains, and contain a quantity of pomegranate trees, fig trees, orange trees, peach trees, palm trees. The inhabitants find enough to subsist abundantly in the product of their harvests, the fruits of which they have, or rather were going to sell in Isfahan. (L-s.)] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 8 p. 463
SOURCE for Taduwan
« In den wegh stont den heer den oppercoopman Angel, den coopman Ham en sijnen secretaris Speelman t'hunnen versoek toe, om ter zijde aff 't dorp Taduwan (3) en 't geen daerbij van seer fn. 3 Tadüan. (De Simla kaart heeft Taluan, maar dat is blijkbaar een drukfout.) Het is het Dadian van Tavernier en Tada-woon (later Tadurwan) van De Bruyn. Esnparig loven alle reizigers de vallei, waarin dit groote dorp gelegen is. Chardin en Tavernier DOmen het, in bijna gelijke woorden, een der heerlijkste oorden van Perzic, ook De Bruyn [In the road, the lord, the chief coopman Angel, the coopman Ham and his secretary Speelman, presented their request to leave the village of Taduwan (3) and everything else about it fn. 3 Tadüan. (The Simla card has Taluan, but that is apparently a printing error.) It is the Dadian of Tavernier and Tada-woon (later Tadurwan) of De Bruyn. All travelers unanimously praise the valley in which this large village is located. Chardin and Tavernier call it, in almost identical words, one of the most wonderful places in Persia, as does De Bruyn] » #3226 Cornelis Janszoon Speelman Ed. A. Hotz, Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I. Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar perzië in 1651-1652, J. Müller, 1908 ~ p. 72
SOURCE for Tadwan
« Rivadaneyra continuing his journey from Firūzābād to Darab crossed the river by a ford between the villages of Tadwān and "Assun-Dscherd" (Asmängird?). He also admires the pleasant and flourishing aspect of Khafr. » #2645 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, Brill, Leiden, ~ vol. 6 p. 384
SOURCE for Tudun
« . The road is stony, but the going is easy. At 1 miles a track diverges W.-N.-W. to Tudun, 6 miles, Khaitar, 12 miles, Simakūn, 16 miles, and Maiman. » #3080 Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India, Mobilisation Routes In Persia (Vol. IV, Part II) (Fars, Laristan, Kerman And Yazd) British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/10, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 178

R17-025 Fattehabad
R17-025 Fattehabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Fathabad , فتح آباد ,
VARIANT names: Fathabad , Fattehabad ,
SOURCE for Fathabad
SOURCE for Fattehabad
« Fattehabad » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~}

R17-026 Khaneh-i-gabri
R17-026 Khaneh-i-gabri : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: CAVE UFI: 10391591 coordinate: lat 28.8458 long 53.3315
NIMA/GNS names: Ghar-e Tadavan , غار تادوان ,
VARIANT names: Ghar-e Tadavan , Khaneh-i-gabri , Tadwan Cave ,
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« of the river opposite to Tāduvan after a long march across wide stony plateaux at the foot of the Safidār range.
My attention had been drawn to Tāduvān by a notice of Chardin, who, on his way from Shirāz (1673), mentions in its vicir 134 a ruined structure ascribed to pre-Islamic times. A day's halt on December 23rd near that picturesquely situated village allowed me to inspect a series of curious cave- like recesses transformed into places of safety and known as Khaneh-i-gabri. They are found under the high wall-like cliffs of limestone lining the narrow gorge of the Tang-i-Tāduvān, in which the Kara-aghach river has cut its way south from the open valley of Khafr. There, at a distance of about 1 miles above the village and about 300 ft. above the bottom of the gorge, extends for about 150 yards a high layer of limestone with a vertical face, overhanging, eaves-like, a line of natural caves which have been converted into a succession of originally vaulted chambers by walls of rough cemented masonry. As the cliff below the narrow ledge connecting the eaves falls off perpendicularly, access to these semi-troglodyte chambers can be gained only from their southern end. Here a massively built semi-circular wall, which can be climbed, but only with difficulty, guards a portion of the rock-face » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 134
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غار تادوان

R17-029 Gul-biranji
R17-029 Gul-biranji : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Gel Berenji , Golberenji , گلبرنجی ,
VARIANT names: Golberenji , Gulbiranji ,
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SOURCE for Gulbiranji
« Gulbiranji » in {map#1135 U.S. Army Map Series K501: Iraq and Iran:, , , The University of Chicago fig. Fin G-40B 1941}

R17-030 Kuiduna
R17-030 Kuiduna : place IRN
VARIANT names: Kuiduna , Noghuzar ,
SOURCE for Kuiduna
« At 1¾ miles Kuidunā on the W. bank of the river. » #3080 Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India, Mobilisation Routes In Persia (Vol. IV, Part II) (Fars, Laristan, Kerman And Yazd) British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/10, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 179
stage distance 17½ miles actual length 22.3 miles. corrected to 2.2 miles. PBR]
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« On the top of a detached hillock rising above the right bank of the river-bed opposite to the village of Gul-biranji and known as Noghuzār I was shown the scanty remains of rough walls marking old defences. Some worked flints, blades, or scrapers, and pieces of ribbed pottery were picked up on the slopes, suggesting early occupation. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 135

R17-030 Pir Boke
R17-030 Pir Boke : place IRN NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 28.955041 long 53.219419 † basis (p) VARIANT names: Pir Boke , Tomb of Sheikh Abu Khalifa , SOURCE for Pir Boke « Recrossing to the opposite bank I found at Gizze village the beautiful domed tomb of a saint known as 'Pir Boke', dating from Timurid times as shown by fine marble tombstones of 790 A.H. (A.D. 1388) and 807 A.H. (A.D. 1404). The exquisite decoration of the interior with enamelled tile-work and painted stucco (like the carved stone facing outside) seemed doomed to complete destruction. Some worked flints brought from small mounds scattered on intermittently cultivated ground within half a mile to the east of Asmängird induced me next day to test one of these mounds, about 5 ft. high, by a trial excavation. Besides a quantity of coarse plain potsherds it yielded a considerable number begin a ivew search Find a word in the current document » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 135 SOURCE for Tomb of Sheikh Abu Khalifa « The tomb of Sheikh Khalifa (Zin al-Din Ali Khalifa) dates back to the 7th century AH and is located in Khafar city, Bab Anar city, Jaza district, and this work was registered as one of the national works of Iran on January 10, 1381 with registration number 6783. [1] .Is This tomb is decorated with presentation tiles, and part of its altar tiles were transferred to the Pars Museum in Shiraz by the former Department of Culture of Jahrom in 1316, which is now located in this museum. There are 6 graves in this tomb, which were probably scholars and notables of Khafar. The moqrans of some of the arches are still intact. Iranologist Jaber Heidari believes that the mentioned building was built on an older building. This is a very beautiful and unique building that has been forgotten.ted searches » [accessed 18 Jul 2024]

R17-031 Gizze
R17-031 Gizze : place IRN (caravanserai)
NIMA/GNS names: Jazeh , Jezzeh , جزه ,
VARIANT names: Gheze , Gizi , Gizze , Guiezze , Jezzeh ,
SOURCE for Gheze
« Dopo 15.altre miglia paſſammo un' altro Karvanſerà, detto di Ghezè. [After another 15 miles we passed another Karvanſerà, called Ghezè.] » #3239 Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, Giro del mondo, del dottor D. Gio. Francesco Gemelli Careri.., stamp. di G. Roselli, Napoli, 1699 ~ pt. 2 p. 266
SOURCE for Gizi
« At 5 miles Gizi on the E. bank of the river. » #3080 Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India, Mobilisation Routes In Persia (Vol. IV, Part II) (Fars, Laristan, Kerman And Yazd) British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/10, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 179
SOURCE for Gizze
« Gizze » in {map#1135 U.S. Army Map Series K501: Iraq and Iran:, , , The University of Chicago fig. Fin G-40B 1941}
« Recrossing to the opposite bank I found at Gizze village the beautiful domed tomb of a saint known as 'Pir Boke', dating from Timurid times as shown by fine marble tombstones of 790 A.H. (A.D. 1388) and 807 A.H. (A.D. 1404). » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 135
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« Plus en avant est le caravansérail de Guiezzè, nommé ainsi du village devant lequel il est bâti. Auprès est un puits fort profond. [Further forward is the caravanserai of Guiezzè, named after the village in front of which it is built. Nearby is a very deep well.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 458
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R17-054 Ij : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Ij , ایج ,
VARIANT names: Ig , Ij ,
SOURCE for Ig
« Shirāz to (the capital of) Shabankārah.-From Shiraz to Dārkān it is, as already said, 34 leagues, and thence to the city of Ig, which is the capital of Shabankārah, it is 4 leagues; [۱۸۸] making a total of 38 leagues. » #1764 ed. Le Strange, G., The geographical part of the Nuzhat-al-qulub composed by Hamd-Alla¯h Mustawfi¯ of Qazwi¯n in 740 (1340), E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1919 ~ p. 178
« The capital city is the Castle of Ig (or Avig) with the township of Zarkan, the one lying beside the other.Ig and Zarkān. Ig in former times was but a village, which Hasūyah, in the days of the Saljūqs (1), raised to be a city. It stands on a hill-top, and has great fortifications. A running stream goes through it, which in time of siege, should the enemy but come to know the source thereof, and turn the current from the castle, he would soon bring the garrison to terms. Zarkan is the township at the foot of the castle; its climate is temperate, but the water is indigestible. Corn, cotton, fruits and dates, however, grow here most excellently. fn. 1 Chief of the Ismaili, a clan of the Shabänkarah Kurds: see Färs Nāmah, p. 11. The castle of Ig still exists: and Zarkan, or Darakan, might be modern Darākūh, lying to leagues east of Fasa.» #1764 ed. Le Strange, G., The geographical part of the Nuzhat-al-qulub composed by Hamd-Alla¯h Mustawfi¯ of Qazwi¯n in 740 (1340), E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1919 ~ p. 137
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« Owing to the natural advantages just indicated Ij must have been a placeof some importance even in early times, but owing perhaps to the fact of itslying off any main line of communication it appears among early Arabgeographers to be mentioned only by Istakhri. He describes it correctly asbelonging to the 'cool region'. In the thirteenth century Yaqut speaks of Ijas belonging to the district of Darabgird and praises its fertile gardens andfields. Ibn-al-Balkhi, writing at the very beginning of the twelfth century,also refers to Ij as situated in the Darabgird district. He mentions its tem- perate climate and plentiful fruit, and adds the information that it 'was in former times a mere village, but under the rule of Hasuyah it became a city'.2 We know from the historical portion of Ibn-al-Balkhi's Färs-nameh that Hasūyah was the chief of the powerful tribe of the Ismā'ili Shabänkäreh, round Darabgird, and a contemporary of the author.3The definite chronological indication here conveyed is of special interest with regard to the remarkable ruined site known as Shahr-i-lj, situated on inside of the head of the valley about 2 miles above Ij village. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 167

R17-056 Dézh-i-gumbadan
R17-056 Dézh-i-gumbadan : place IRN
VARIANT names: Dézh-i-gumbadan , Habs-i Isfandipur , Habs-i-Isfandiyar ,
SOURCE for Dézh-i-gumbadan
« Before, however, he set out I used the first day of our halt at Dogan fora survey of the mountain stronghold, famous in this part of Fårs by the nameof Dézh-i-gumbadan or Habs-i-Isfandiyar, 'the prison of Isfandiyar'. Locallegend has identified it with the story of the captivity of Isfandiyar, one ofthe great legendary heroes of Firdausi's Shahnameh. The great rockyeminence, flat on top and girt with wall-like cliffs, was clearly within viewfrom Dogan, situated at an elevation of 4,650 ft. An ascent of some 5 miles in a boulder-filled fairly open ravine to the NE. brought us to the rocky crest of a spur along which lies the approach to the eastern extremity of the natural fastness and to the only point where its top can be gained. Skirting the steep debris-strewn slope of a detached hillock and then scaling from the south the precipitous narrow ridge connecting it with the fastness, we arrived at the foot of a narrow fissure. It has been cut by erosion into the perpendicular walls of stratified limestone, 120 to 150 ft. in height, which encircle the plateau on all sides. Across the precipitous rocks by the side of this fissure a wall had been built with large slabs of stone, and of this a small portion survives at some 30 ft. below the top. But even without this protection the bare rock face could not have been scaled, providing that it had been properly defended at this theonly point where it does not present itself as a sheer precipice (Fig. 14). From the sharp crag-like end here the hill-top stretches westwards at an elevation of about 6,450 ft. a 164 widens to a maximum width of some 110 yards near the middle. Here the ground, slightly dipping, holds two large cisterns, each measuring 21 ft. across and 60 and 58 ft. long, respectively. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 164
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« [East of Dogan is the ruined fortress of Habs-i Isfandipur, on the crest of a rocky spur, where columns, rock-cut cisterns and other remaine of probable Sassanian print Islamic date can be seen. » #888 Matheson, S., Persia. An Archaeological Guide, Faber and Faber Limited, 1976 ~ p. 261
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R17-055 Dogan
R17-055 Dogan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Dogan , Dogan-e Sofla , Doghan , Dugan , دوگان سفلی ,
VARIANT names: Dogan ,
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« There was no evidence to be seen of this area ever having had an adequate supply of water from surface drainage, such as might have made settled occupation possible here in prehistoric times. This may explain why the search subsequently made from our camp at Dogan failed to reveal prehis-toric remains within the eastern extremity of the Shash-deh valley. But in another direction it was rewarded by an interesting and very promising discovery. When I arrived at Dogān, a small Ainālu hamlet, after a to miles' march from Shash-deh, » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 164

R17-056 Gardaneh-i-Sabz
R17-056 Gardaneh-i-Sabz : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS UFI: -3196605 coordinate: lat 29.092755 long 54.160742
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-i-Sabz , Gardaneh-ye Sabz , گردنه سبز ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh-i-Sabz ,
SOURCE for Gardaneh-i-Sabz
« Gardaneh-i-Sabz » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-057 Istahbanat
R17-057 Istahbanat : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Estahban , Estahban , Estahbanat , Estehbanat , Istehbanat , Savanat , Shahr-e Estahbanat , استهبان ,
VARIANT names: Estahbanat , Istahbänät , Istehbanat ,
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« On February 18th we started northward for Is?ahbänät, and our march of some 15 miles carried us from the Gardaneh-i-Budreh to the saddle of the Gardaneh-i-sabz which forms the watershed towards the drainageless Niriz basin at an elevation of 6,900 ft., and then down into the open valley of Istahbänät. There were no archaeological observations to be made on the route, but it was of interest to note, as we skirted the northern face of the Tudēj range, the extensive plantations of almond and fig trees lining the lower slopes. This was in striking contrast to the utterly bare southern slopes of the opposite range of hills towards the Niriz basin, they, too, rising to heights of close on 9,000 ft.
Whether it was due to more favourable climatic conditions or to some inherited qualities of the local population, the small town of Istahbänät and its surroundings certainly presented far more attractive aspects than any of the places seen on our way through Färs. A lively stream, descending from the Tudēj range still covered with snow on its heights, carries plenty of water through the town and its extensive orchards. Lively bazars attested that the local industries which Sir William Ouseley in 1811 had duly noted in Istahbänät still survive in the town. It was said to contain now about 2,500 house- holds. It was pleasant also to find the grand old Chinar or plane tree which that scholarly traveller had admired still adorning and shading the principal market-place.
Istahbänät, mentioned by Istakhri and other early Arab geographers, is certainly an old place, » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 174
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« The road now turns W. along a valley about 4 miles wide sloping gently westwards. There are steep hills to the N. and S. At 18 miles Istehbānāt is reached, which is a large village in the middle of a wide valley, surrounded by cultivation and orchards. Route No. 31 connects here. Water. Good and plentiful. » #3113 Routes in Persia. vol. III, part I., Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1918 ~ p. 159

R17-058 Tejabad
R17-058 Tejabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: 260498 coordinate: lat 29.1938 long 53.7984
NIMA/GNS names: Tajabad , تاج آباد ,
VARIANT names: Tajabad , Tejabad ,
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« At the top of the pass from mile 6 to mile 8-the road is almost level: then there is a steep descent to mile 10, followed by a rise over a spur to the village of Tājābād which lies ½ mile S.-E. of the road. » #3485 Routes in Persia Volume II. (North-Western Persia), Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1923 ~ p. 159
SOURCE for Tejabad
« Tejabad » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
« On the surface of the ground on a low stony hillock opposite the ruined village of Tejābād, where that tract was first entered, we picked up worked flints and some painted potsherds which recalled by their designs the chalcolithic ware of the Vakilābād type. There was, however, noching to suggest prolonged occupation. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 175

R17-059 Runiz Bala
R17-059 Runiz Bala : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Rowniz , Rowniz-e `Olya , Rowniz-e Bala , Runiz , Runiz Bala , Runiz-e Bala , رونیز , رونیز علیا ,
VARIANT names: Rohnis-i Bala , Runiz Bala , Runiz-i-Bala ,
SOURCE for Rohnis-i Bala
« At 9 miles a new fort, Kalat-i-Khan, is passed situated about 3 miles to the north. Rohnis-i Bala, good sized village, with large fruit- gardens. Supplies; about 100 cows and 300 sheep; also about 15 horses. Fair amount of grain and bhusa procurable. Water good. Naib in charge lives at Kalat-i-Khan. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 124
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« Rūniz-bālā, the principal village of the tract, reached after a total march of 18 miles, proved half deserted owing to the damage its qanāts had suffered. From there, on the morning of February 22nd, I visited a spot known as Tal-Hasani,¾ mile to the south, where a small streamlet, descending from the range, accounts for a few orchards. Here on a low terrace-like piece of ground some digging done for building a walled enclosure had brought to light worked flints along with painted potsherds, and the specimens picked up resembled in type the chalcolithic pottery of Kanakan. The flatness of the ground and its limited extent did not recommend the spot for excavation though it clearly had seen a chalcolithic settlement.
A stretch of small mounds was next visited half a mile to the west of Rūniz- bālā. It extends for about 250 yards and was shown by its glazed potsherds, some of them lustred, to have been occupied in medieval times (see 21-23, Pl. XXVII). » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 175
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« At 9 miles the road runs through some low hills, beyond which is the hamlet of Maiman. The remainder of the road is over a stony plain to Runiz-i-Bala, reached at 12 miles. Water. Good but limited from a qandt at Murchak. Fuel. Moderate. Fodder. Plentiful. Supplies » #3113 Routes in Persia. vol. III, part I., Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1918 ~ p. 160

R17-060 `Aliabad-e Shams
R17-060 `Aliabad-e Shams : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: `Aliabad-e Shams , علی آباد شمس ,
VARIANT names: Aliabad-e Shams ,
SOURCE for Aliabad-e Shams
« From here our route turned to the SW. and passing the village of Aliābād took us into the valley known as Tang-i-Karam. This gradually narrows into a gorge which divides the western end of the Tudēj range from the dominat- ing massif of the Koh-i-Kharman, rising to 10,799 ft. in the north. Before the narrowest portion of the gorge is approached, until quite recently a favourite place for banditry, I noticed that the foot of the hill-side on the south is lined with artificial terraces bearing stone walls of ruined dwellings which appeared to be old. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 175

R17-061 Kachu
R17-061 Kachu : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kachooyeh , Kachuyeh , کچویه ,
VARIANT names: Kachu , Kachuyeh , Tachu ,
SOURCE for Kachu
« For the sake of close examination of the ruined site I made a day's halt at Kachu, the nearest small hamlet to the west, after a total march of 15 miles. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 176
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« The road runs close past the tank under the slopes of the Küh-i-Kharman. At 10 miles the village of Tachu is passed. A moderate amount of supplies could be collected in the neighbourhood; water is plentiful and good. From Tachu the road runs over stony undulating ground under the steep slope of the Küh-i-Kharman, which is situated about 14 to 2 miles distant. » #3113 Routes in Persia. vol. III, part I., Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1918 ~ pp. 160-1

R17-062 Atash-kadeh site
R17-062 Atash-kadeh site : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: 10400781 coordinate: lat 29.1471 long 53.6236
NIMA/GNS names: Kamp-e Atashkadeh , کمپ آتشکده ,
VARIANT names: Atash-kadeh site , Kamp-e Atashkadeh ,
SOURCE for Atash-kadeh site
« A terrace of bare limestone rock at the foot of the spur opposite to the Atash-kadeh site and at a distance of 700 yards from it bears the monolith pillar (Fig. 26) to which the site obviously owes its name. The large stone which Sir William Ouseley was the first to describe has been roughly carved into a quadrangular shape, evidently in situ, out of a detached block of lime- stone, for on clearing the ground at its foot, which was covered with loose stone debris, the rough surface of the rock was laid bare projecting from 3 to 6 in. beyond the base. The pillar rises to 10 ft. above the present ground level and measures there 3 ft. 10 in. square, and its top, slightly tapering, holds a circular hollow, 2 ft. 2 in. in diameter and 1 ft. 1 in. deep. This proves beyond all doubt that the pillar was used as a fire-altar for Zoroastrian wor- ship. Into the northern and western faces, at a height of about 6 ft. from the ground, circular medallions measuring 14 in. in diameter have been carved to a depth of about an inch. The medallion on the west shows traces of what may have been a decorative design or possibly a Pahlavi inscription, as Sir William Ouseley thought, but the traces of whatever it was, are badly effaced. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 177
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R17-063 Mukabari
R17-063 Mukabari : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Maqaberi , Moqaberi , Moqayeri , مقابری , مقایری ,
VARIANT names: Moqaberi , Mukabari ,
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« From Kachu two marches carried us through the wide valley appropriately known as Miān-jangal from its extensive tree growth, and then across the Gardaneh-i-Alafa or Chinar pass to Sarvistān village. Apart from the small hamlet of Mukābari not a single inhabited place was met on the way, and only a few spots of abandoned cultivation could be sighted. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 178

R17-064 Gardaneh-i-Alafa
R17-064 Gardaneh-i-Alafa : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS UFI: -3065342 coordinate: lat 29.2 long 53.366667
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-i-Alafa , Gardaneh-ye Chenar , Gardaneh-ye Haf ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh-i-Alafa ,
SOURCE for Gardaneh-i-Alafa
« From Kachu two marches carried us through the wide valley appropriately known as Miān-jangal from its extensive tree growth, and then across the Gardaneh-i-Alafa or Chinar pass to Sarvistān village. Apart from the small hamlet of Mukābari not a single inhabited place was met on the way, and only a few spots of abandoned cultivation could be sighted. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 178

R17-066 tomb shrine (maqbara) of Shaikh Yusuf Sarvistani
R17-066 tomb shrine (maqbara) of Shaikh Yusuf Sarvistani : place IRN NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 29.273175 long 53.220554 † basis (p) VARIANT names: Tomb of Sheikh Yusof Sarvestani , tomb shrine (maqbara) of Shaikh Yūsuf Sarvistani , SOURCE for Tomb of Sheikh Yusof Sarvestani « The tomb of Sheikh Yusuf Sarvostani is one of the historical monuments of Sarvostan city in Sarvostan city and Fars province. In this building, the tombs of "Sheikh Yusuf Sarostani" (died: 680 AH) and "Mohammed bin Hasan Ali Al-Bizawi" (died: 710 AH) are placed. The mausoleum of Sheikh Yusuf Sarostani consists of several stone pillars and two quadrangles. This building is beautifully located in the middle of Sarvestan city. In terms of architecture, it goes back to the Ilkhanid period, and the decorations of the building are influenced by the common decorations of that era. In the Pars region, it is said that this tomb, which was the place where Sheikh Yusuf bin Yaqub lived and taught, contains two or four arches and several stone columns and stone carvings. The architecture of this building is similar to the architecture of Sassanid buildings, and its stone-carving method is similar to that of the ancient Grand Mosque of Shiraz. First of all, the importance of the decoration element of the sculptural building is that the major sculptural decorations include inscriptions in Kufic, Tholut, Naskh and Islamic motifs, i.e. twists and turns. In addition to this, the decorative elements of the art of tiling were used in this building, unfortunately, there are no works of this art in the building today. » [accessed 20 Jul 2024] SOURCE for tomb shrine (maqbara) of Shaikh Yūsuf Sarvistani « Sarvistān, though reduced now to some 300 dilapidated homesteads scattered among fruit gardens, may well mark the site of Khawaristan which the early Arab geographers mention as a town on the route from Shirāz to Dārāb.3 The only relic of its old prosperity is the fine tomb shrine (maqbara) of Shaikh Yūsuf Sarvistāni, containing that holy man's beautifully carved sarcophagus with a Kufic inscription dated A.H. 682 or A.D. 1283. The domed roof has fallen in, but the four arches resting on massive pillars which once supported it are intact and, together with other interesting architectural features, would well deserve careful study and preservation. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 178

R17-067 Chahar Taq
R17-067 Chahar Taq : place IRN (chahar taq)
NIMA/GNS feature: HSTS UFI: 10394526 coordinate: lat 29.1956 long 53.2311
NIMA/GNS names: Chahar Taq , Kakh-e Sasani , Qasr-e Sasani , چهار طاق , قصر ساسانی , کاخ ساسانی ,
VARIANT names: Palace of Sasan , Sarvistan Chahar Taq ,
SOURCE for Palace of Sasan
« The so-called “Palace of Sāsān” has been cited by many travelers and archaeologists as a landmark in Iranian architecture. Many early explorers, e.g., Eugene Flandin, Pascal Coste, Marcel Dieulafoy, Jacques de Morgan, Aurel Stein, and Ernst Herzfeld have attributed this building to Sāsānian period. These scholars have either used their own observations or accounts by early Muslim writers to reach this conclusion. Oscar Reuther was the first person to carry out a thorough study of the building who also reached the conclusion that it belongs to Sāsānian period. But in recent decades a number of researchers with new approaches expressed reservations about the date of some structures previously dated to Sāsānian period and their function as fire-temple, or manor house, or palace. One example in case is Lionel Bier’s study of Sarvestān structure. In his comprehensive study that formed the basis of his PhD dissertation, Bier argued that the Sarvestān structure is not a Sāsānian palace – as previously thought – but a Zoroastrian fire-temple of early Islamic period. He based his argument on similar constructions in Iran and Mesopotamia. » #3424 Ali-Reza Askari Chāverdi, Archaeological Excavations in the So-Called “Palace of Sāsān” at Sarvestān, Fars, Sasanika Archaeology, 2012 vol. 3: ~ p. 2
SOURCE for Sarvistan Chahar Taq
« Having pitched my camp at the Chahar-taq (as the ancient palace is known locally), I was able to devote some time to the study of this structure, which is archaeologically important. Its plan and constructive features were examined, illustrated, and discussed long ago with care and competence by M. Dieulafoy, and any details which might have escaped attention during his brief visit, paid under trying personal conditions, will, no doubt, prove to have been supplemented or rectified in Professor E. Herzfeld's great corpus of the Iranische Denkmäler. Hence I may confine my observations to a few minor points bearing on the position, general character, and 179kely date of the monument.The ruined palace (Fig. 19) is situated on flat ground stretching down from the foot of the hill range to the east which is crossed by the Chinar pass. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ pp. 178-9
« The ruins of a large building situated in southwestern Iran near the Shiraz-Fasa road, twelve kilometers south of the town of Sarvistan, have long been known to students of Persian architecture. The building is first mentioned by W. Ouseley, who viewed it through field glasses on his way from Shiraz to Bandar Abbas in 1810 and described it as "a brick building in the usual style of Muselman architecture.(6) In 1840 E. Flandin and P. Coste visited the site and produced a plan and five drawings in addition to a description that can be considered detailed for those days. Flandin suggested that the building was a palace, and he compared its construction to several char taqs, which he assumed to be fire sanctuaries of the Sasanian period. ... If the building was in fact a fire sanctuary, as the plan suggests, what type of community it served is still unclear, isolated as it is out in the countryside.fn. 6. Sir A. Stein, "An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Perus," Inag, 1, 1936, 1981 and fig. 19, with map of region opposite pl. XXX. L. Vanden Berghe, Archéologie de l'Iras ancien, Leiden, 1959. pls. 65, 660- d. Bulletin of the American Initinite for Iranian Art and Archaeology, vi/vn, 1946, figs. 21-25. » #3390 Bier, Lionel, Sarvistan : a study in early Iranian architecture, The College Art Association of America by The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park and London, 1986 ~ pp. 1 and 73

R17-065 Sarvistan
R17-065 Sarvistan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Sarvestan , Sarvistan , سروستان ,
VARIANT names: Burzu , Sarvestan , Sarvistan , Selvissoûn , Servistan ,
SOURCE for Burzu
« passing Rebat a mile to our left, we reached Burzu, called also Servistan, the chief village of the district, situated at 7 fursacks, or 247½miles from Mahullu, aild containing, it was said, 800 families. » #3038 Keith E. Abbott, Notes Taken on a Journey Eastwards from Shiráz to Fessá and Darab, Thence Westwards by Jehrúm to Kazerún, in 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, London, 1857 ~ p. 152
« Burzu » in {map#1234 , , , 'Persia, Afghanistan an Beluchistan' [?26r] (1/2), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F112/623, f 26, in Qatar Digital Library}
SOURCE for Sarvestan
« This route passed Tarom, Forgh, Rustak, Darab, Darakan, Fasa, Sarvestan and then Shiraz, and from there onwards to Isfahan. This was the normal trade route prior the reign of Shah `Abbas I (1587-1629) . » #3002 Willem Floor, Persian Gulf: Links with the Hinterland, Bushehr, Borazjan, Kazerun, Banu Ka`b and Bandar Abbas, Mage Publishers, Washington, 2015 ~ p. 252 and #1169 Floor, Willem, The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1999, 37:67-94 ~ p. 67
« Sarvistan and Kübanjan. (3) These are two towns that lie between Shiraz and Pasā. Their climate is like that of Shiraz. Thero are running streams and some few gardens, producing grapes and other fruits of the cold region. The hunting-grounds here are famous, especially the mountain … region of Kübanjān. Near here is the Salt Lake [Namakistān] (1), where no fish or creature can exist for its saltness. fn. 3 Sarvistën exists and Kübanjän is presumably equivalent to the modern Kühinjän (FNN. 221, 223). Yaqut (iv, 316) gives Kabanjän as "a village of the Shiraz (District)". Probably it is identical with al-Usbanjan, which Istakhri (p. 136) mentions, coupling it with Sarvistan.
fn. 1 Not marked on the map. » #3047 G. Le Strange, Description of the Province of Fars, in Persia, at the Beginning of the Twelfth Century A.D. Translated from the MS. of Ibn-al-Balkhi, in the British Museum, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1912 pp. 1-30, pp. 311-339, pp. 865-889 ~ pp. 327-8
« alternatives routes Route No. 1 Bandar Abbas to Shiraz(d). Via Jährüm, Khānch Kahdan, and Mahārlū; about equal in length and regularly used by Sarvistin Jährümb caravans; well supplied with provisions, easy, and in good lateral communication with the main route here described. » #3080 Simla Drawing Office, General Staff, India, Mobilisation Routes In Persia (Vol. IV, Part II) (Fars, Laristan, Kerman And Yazd) British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/10, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 161
SOURCE for Sarvistan
« After leaving this village came into country which was well cultivated, chiefly with tobacco; a small canal of running water ran close beside the road the whole way to Sarvistán, where we arrived at 5-45 P.M. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 3
SOURCE for Selvissoûn
« Après avoir marché cinq heures , nous trouvons le caravansérail d'Ali-Abâd . Plus loin est le grand village de Mino , riche en vergers . Un ruisseau venant des monts de l'E. , par un canal souterrain , répand la fécondité dans les champs environnans . Nous aperçûmes , peu après , le village de Selvissoûn , placé presqu'an pied d'une montagne .Nous y étions à trois heures un quart . [After walking for five hours, we found the caravanserai of Ali-Abâd. Further away is the large village of Mino, rich in orchards. A stream coming from the E mountains. , through an underground canal, spreads fertility in the surrounding fields. We saw, shortly after, the village of Selvissoûn, located almost at the foot of a mountain. We were there at a quarter past three.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 342
« Nous arrivâmes vers midi à Salvissoun, petit village avec de magnifiques vergers. Nous campâmes sous de grands mûriers, et près d'un ruisseau de fort belle eau. Comme le village est à une certaine distance, je fus peu importuné. [We arrived around noon in Salvissoun, a small village with magnificent orchards. We camped under large mulberry trees, and near a stream of very beautiful water. As the village is some distance away, I was not bothered much.] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 602
SOURCE for Servistan

R17-068 Ab-i-narak
R17-068 Ab-i-narak : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FRM UFI: -3051358 coordinate: lat 28.9645 long 54.297
NIMA/GNS names: Ab Anarak , Ab Anarak , Ab-e Anarak , Ab-e Narak , Fath ol Mobin , آب انارك , فتح المبین ,
VARIANT names: Ab Anarak , Ab-i-narak ,
SOURCE for Ab Anarak
« Ab Narak » in {map#1135 U.S. Army Map Series K501: Iraq and Iran:, , , The University of Chicago fig. Niriz H-40M 1942}
« Ab-narak » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
SOURCE for Ab-i-narak
« After 7 miles we reached the small hamlet of Ab-i-nārak, still on the Ij side of the low watershed towards Dārāb. Close to it, on a small piece of ground rising only a couple of feet above the field level, some flint blades and painted potsherds of the Kanakan type were picked up. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 182

R17-069 Kham Valley
R17-069 Kham Valley : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: VAL UFI: -3195395 coordinate: lat 28.896606 long 54.351251
NIMA/GNS names: Darreh-ye Kham , Kham Valley , دره خم ,
VARIANT names: Kham Valley ,
SOURCE for Kham Valley
« Kham Valley » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-070 Hajiabad
R17-070 Hajiabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: 178388 coordinate: lat 28.791822 long 54.316582
NIMA/GNS names: Hadiabad , هادی آباد ,
VARIANT names: Hadiabad , Hajiabad ,
SOURCE for Hadiabad
SOURCE for Hajiabad
« The steep descent down a narrow valley, where grazing camps of an Arab tribe were passed, brought us after 12 miles' march to the small hamlet of Hajiābād at the northern edge of the plain. Beyond it an extensive area of abandoned cultivation with heaps of debris from ruined dwellings was passed 3 miles before reaching the village of Mādavan to the SW. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 183

R17-071 Madavan
R17-071 Madavan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Madavan , Madehvan , Madevan , مادوان ,
VARIANT names: Madaoun , Madavan ,
SOURCE for Madaoun
« to the village Madaoun, from whence Darab bears due east, 4 fursacks distant. » #3091 C M Macgregor, Central Asia. Part IV. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the topography, ethnology, resources, and history of Persia., Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta, 1871 ~ p. 662
SOURCE for Madavan
« Après avoir suivi quelques instans ce ruisseau , et passé à plusieurs reprises un canal d'irrigation , nous arrivons à midi à Madavân . Ce petit village , situé dans une immense prairie , qui s'étend de l'O . à l'E . , est entouré de murs . [After following this stream for a few moments, and passing an irrigation canal several times, we arrive at Madavân at noon. This small village, located in an immense meadow, which extends from the W. to the E. , is surrounded by walls.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 350

R17-072 Bahaderan
R17-072 Bahaderan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Bahaderan , Bahador , Bahadoran , Bahaduran , بهادران ,
VARIANT names: Bahaderan ,
SOURCE for Bahaderan
« Bahaderan » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-073 Nasarvan
R17-073 Nasarvan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Nasarvan , Nasravan , Nasrevan , Nasrovan , نصروان ,
VARIANT names: Nasarvan ,
SOURCE for Nasarvan
« Nasarvan » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-074 Hermadun
R17-074 Hermadun : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Harbedan , Herbedan , Hermadun , Heyrbodan , هربدان , هیربدان ,
VARIANT names: Harbedan , Hermadun ,
SOURCE for Harbedan
SOURCE for Hermadun
« Hermadun » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}

R17-095 Khusu
R17-095 Khusu : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Khosuyeh , Khusu , خسویه ,
VARIANT names: Khusu ,
SOURCE for Khusu
« Khusu » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
« The head of three deep canals irrigating the fertile basin of Khusū was crossed by a bridge a short distance below the low pass, and then after a total march of 8 miles we arrived at the principal village of Khusū. A considerable area close to the west of it is covered with low mounds, burnt bricks, remains of rough stone masonry, and potsherds of the Muhammadan period. This makes it very probable that the site marks the
position of the chief place of the Khasū tract, which the early Arab geographers mention about a day's distance south of Darabgird.(1)fn. 1. Cf. Schwarz, Iran im Mittelalter, 105 sq. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ pp. 201 and 225

R17-080 Deh-i-Khair
R17-080 Deh-i-Khair : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Deh Khair , Deh Kheyr , Deh Kheyr-e Bala , Deh-e Kheyr-e `Olya , Kheir Olya , ده خیر بالا ,
VARIANT names: Deh Khair , Deh Khayr , Deh-i-Khair , Khair , Khayr ,
SOURCE for Deh Khair
« Nous marchâmes quelque temps encore avant d'arriver à Deh- Kair . Ce nom signifie point de village . En effet , un hameau d'une cinquantaine de feux , renfermés dans une enceinte , tient aujourd'hui la place du village considérable qui a existé autrefois . [We walked for some more time before arriving at Deh-Kair. This name means village point. In fact, a hamlet of around fifty fires, enclosed within an enclosure, today takes the place of the considerable village which once existed.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 359
SOURCE for Deh Khayr
« A watercourse has been led down from the hill immediately above it to two large deep cisterns, some 20 feet deep by 8 in diameter. The surplus water was led off by a course built along the hillside; it could be traced winding away along the base of the hills for some 2 miles, and we were informed that originally it went as far as Deh Khayr, 7 miles distant. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 13
SOURCE for Deh-i-Khair
« Deh-i-Khair » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
SOURCE for Khair
« Here they were until Tuesday [May 22, 1515] whence they departed and arrived at another place of Braym Beça of three hundred inhabitants [probably Khair **], with many villages around it » #3565 Smith, Ronald Bishop, The First Age of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations in Persia (1507-1524), Decatur Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 1970 ~ p. 41
SOURCE for Khayr
« To the right from Dārkān it is 10 farsakhs to Dārābgird, thence 3 to the village of Khayr, » #2866 Guy Le Strange, Mesopotamia and Persia under the Mongols in the Fourteenth Century A.D. from the Nuzhat-al-Kulub of Hamd-Allah Mustawfi, Royal Asiatic Society, 1903, ~ p. 112

R17-077 Zainabad
R17-077 Zainabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Zeynabad , Zeynabad-e Sangi , Zin Abad , زین آباد , زین آباد سنگی ,
VARIANT names: Zainabad , Zeynabad ,
SOURCE for Zainabad
« Zainabad » in {map#1133 in #886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.) 86:6:489-97 ~ fig. Province Of Fars, Iran, from the Surveys made in 1933-34}
SOURCE for Zeynabad

R17-076 Darab
R17-076 Darab : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Darab , Darab-e Do , داراب , داراب ? ,
VARIANT names: Darab , Darabegird , Darabghierd , Darabgird , Darap ,
SOURCE for Darab
« Darab » in {map#1180 in #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ fig. Abb. 5 Kartenausschnitt der Provinzen Bushehr und Fars}
« Après avoir eu long-temps , à quelque distance de nous , un nombre infini de ruines , parmi lesquelles est une colonne en briques , qui paraît avoir été un minaret , nous marchons entre des terres ensemencées pour arriver à Darâb . Cette ville , bâtie dans une vallée , est bornée au S. par deux collines que sépare un vallon [After having had for a long time, at some distance from us, an infinite number of ruins, among which is a brick column, which seems to have been a minaret, we walk between sown lands to arrive at Darâb. This town, built in a valley, is bounded to the S. by two hills separated by a valley.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 354
SOURCE for Darabegird
« Darābegird-Siraf. Darābegird 1 Tag Hasū » #1717 Schwarz, Paul, Iran im Mittelalter nach arabischen Geographen, O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1896 ~ p. 201
SOURCE for Darabghierd
« Tra le altre ville che si passarono, si lascio anche addietro di lontano la città di Darabghierd, che ritiene infin oggi il nome di Dario, da costoro detto Darab, da cui è fama che fosse fabbricata. [Among the other villas that passed by, the city of Darabghierd was also left far behind, which to this day retains the name of Darius, called by them Darab, by whom it is said that it was built.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 278
SOURCE for Darabgird
« In the central and comparatively well-watered portion of the Darab district circular ramparts, still imposing in their decay and adjoined by a great fosse, guard the site of Darabgird, measuring fully a mile in diameter. Surface remains within clearly proved occupation extending from late pre-Muhammadan to mediaeval times. The view from a rocky hill in the centre indicated »#886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.), 86:6:489-97 ~ p. 495
« Darabagird VI D4
Ruines à 5 km au Sud de Darab Iran
Capitale (gasaba) de la circonscription du même
#2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 48
« In Fars, a series of large, royal cities at Firuzabad, Bishapur, and Darabgird provide most of our archaeological evidence for settlement patterns in the heart of the empire. »#2357 Editor(s):D. T. Potts, A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012, ~ p. 1079
« The town of Daráb, or rather Darábgird, as it should be written, is not so well built as Fassa: the houses are mostly built of mud and stones; very few of kiln-burnt bricks were to be seen. The main street is long and straggling, and there is not a proper bazar; but owing to the gardens, which are numerous and apparently thriv-ing, it appears to cover a lot of ground. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 9
SOURCE for Darap
« 20 mai. Nous partimes de grand matin, et arrivâmes à Darap vers midi.Darap est dans une belle situation; les eaux y sont abondantes; la plaine et les montagnes couvertes de végétation. Le Palmier y croît encore, mais n'y forme plus d'épaisses forêts; la chaleur n'étant plus trop ardente, il ne faut pas, comme dans les pays très-chauds, chercher à leur procurer de la fraîcheur par des irrigations [May 20. We left early in the morning, and arrived at Darap around noon.Darap is in a good situation; the waters are abundant there; the plain and the mountains covered with vegetation. The palm tree still grows there, but no longer forms thick forests; the heat no longer being too intense, we must not, as in very hot countries, try to provide them with coolness by irrigation. ] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 598

R17-075 Darabgird
R17-075 Darabgird : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh-ye Dahya , قلعه دهیا ,
VARIANT names: a place [Darabgird] , Darabgerd , Darabgird , Kala'h Darab , Kaleh Darab , Qal`eh-ye Dahya ,
SOURCE for a place [Darabgird]
« From there they went to a place [Darabgird], likewise belonging to him, very near, of fifteen hundred inhabitants more or less, and it was formerly very great. » #3565 Smith, Ronald Bishop, The First Age of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations in Persia (1507-1524), Decatur Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 1970 ~ p. 41
SOURCE for Darabgerd
« The historical town of Darabgerd, which is located six km to the south of Darab in Fars Province, was among a handful of towns in Pars Province during the Achemenid Empire. »
SOURCE for Darabgird
« On March 26th we left Dārābgird and proceeded NE. to visit the great rock sculpture known as Nakhsh-i-Rustam. For about 3 miles we followed the road leading to the town of Darab, and near where it approaches a gap in an outer hill chain we continued to follow the foot of the latter eastwards past cultivation for another 3 miles. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 194
SOURCE for Kala'h Darab
« 3-20 came in sight of the Kala'h Daráb,
a garden above the town under the Kuh-i-Ma'adan. Soon after- wards, passing between two small hills, came on to the town, where we arrived at 4-30 P.M., and got to the above Kala'b, passing first through the whole length of the town at 4-45 ?.?. Distance 24 miles » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 8
SOURCE for Kaleh Darab
« There are said to be 180 streams in all on the plain. At 10½ miles the road passes the Kaleh Dārāb, a circular moat nearly one mile in diameter, which surrounds a rock en-circled by a high mound. Nothing but mounds and ruins in the last stage of decay remain. The moat, which is about 90 feetbroad and very decp, is full of fresh water belted with tall rushes.The road then runs through a small village, containing a small imāmzadeh, and continues through opium cultivation.» #3113 Routes in Persia. vol. III, part I., Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1918 ~ p. 68
SOURCE for Qal`eh-ye Dahya

R17-078 Nakhsh-i-Rustam
R17-078 Nakhsh-i-Rustam : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: 10434196 coordinate: lat 28.714038 long 54.553791 † basis (c)
Supplement: NIMA/GNS data « 28.713205, 54.554105,Naqsh-e Shahpur,ANS » amended to cliff face 97m. away heading 341.5°
VARIANT names: Nakhsh-i-Rustam , Naqsh-e Shahpur , Naqsh-i Rustam Darab ,
SOURCE for Nakhsh-i-Rustam
« On March 26th we left Dārābgird and proceeded NE. to visit the great rock sculpture known as Nakhsh-i-Rustam. For about 3 miles we followed the road leading to the town of Darab, and near where it approaches a gap in an outer hill chain we continued to follow the foot of the latter eastwards past cultivation for another 3 miles. After passing four small springs issuing at the foot of the low ridge of limestone which here overlooks the valley plain, we reached the large pool fed by a fine spring (Fig. 29) where the great relief is carved into the rock wall above. It represents, like so many other Sasanian rock sculptures, the triumph of Shapur I over the Emperor Valerian. Sir William Ouseley, who appears in 1811 to have been the first European traveller to see it, has recorded a brief notice of it accompanied by a rapid sketch. I am unaware of any photograph of it having ever been published before the one reproduced in Fig. 28. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 194
SOURCE for Naqsh-e Shahpur
SOURCE for Naqsh-i Rustam Darab
« [At the foot of a cliff known as Naqsh-i Rustam Darab, between Darabgird and the present-day town of Darab, a spring forms a quiet pool before the cliff face, into which is carved another early Sassanian bas-relief. Since it must be viewed from across the pool it is not easy to see the details with the naked eye and most authorities have attributed it to Shahpur I, believing that it depicted his triumph over the Roman emperors Valerian and Philip the Arab. Dr. Herrmann, however, offers the suggestion that it shows Ardashir I (who was military Governor of Darabgird during his father's lifetime and before his battle with Artabanus V). Dr. Herrmann 86 thinks the relief was probably carved in Ardashir's final decade and some years after the Naqsh-i Rustam carving near Persepolis (p. 224). It shows the Sassanian king on his horse, with a fallen enemy by its side; the king, extending one hand to touch the head of an old man, has an escort of Persians behind him. Other figures include a younger man with one arm stretched towards the king, and like the old man he is wearing a royal diadem. Among the Roman Emperors defeated by Ardashir were Severus Alexander and Maximus Thrace. » #888 Matheson, S., Persia. An Archaeological Guide, Faber and Faber Limited, 1976 ~ p. 261

R17-079 Qasr-i-dukhtar
R17-079 Qasr-i-dukhtar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: RUIN UFI: -3058934 coordinate: lat 28.7012 long 54.556429
NIMA/GNS names: Dabiran , Dabiran , Dabirun , Dabran , Qal`eh-ye Dabiran , دبیران , قلعه دبیران ,
VARIANT names: Karwan-sarai, , Masjid-i-sang , Qal`eh-ye Dabiran , Qasr-i-dukhtar ,
SOURCE for Karwan-sarai,
« On March 28th I left Nakhsh-i-Rustam for a closer examination of the rock-
cut shrine called variously Qasr-i-dukhtar, Masjid-i-sang, or Kārwān-sarai, to which I had taken the opportunity of paying a visit the day before. It is situated about 3 miles to the east at the very end of the ridge at the foot of which rises the spring of Nakhsh-i-Rustam. Quite a number of smaller springs were passed on the way to the shrine. This was first visited by Sir William Ouseley in 1811; » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 196
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SOURCE for Qal`eh-ye Dabiran
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R17-083 Banuch
R17-083 Banuch : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Banuch , Banuj , Banuj , Baynuj , بانوج , باینوج ,
VARIANT names: Banuch ,
SOURCE for Banuch
« Once Deh- i-khair was left behind, on March 29th, no cultivation was met along the flat thalweg until the small villages of Banuch and Abshi were reached, some 9 miles lower down. To these villages canals carry water from the springs about Nakhsh-i-Rustam on the northern side of the valley. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 200

R17-084 Abshi
R17-084 Abshi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Ab Shib , Abshi , آب شیب ,
VARIANT names: Abshi ,
SOURCE for Abshi
« Once Deh- i-khair was left behind, on March 29th, no cultivation was met along the flat thalweg until the small villages of Banuch and Abshi were reached, some 9 miles lower down. To these villages canals carry water from the springs about Nakhsh-i-Rustam on the northern side of the valley. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 200

R17-086 Bizhdan
R17-086 Bizhdan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Bizab , Bizdan , بیزدان ,
VARIANT names: Bizdan , Bizhdan ,
SOURCE for Bizdan
SOURCE for Bizhdan
« One of their camps was met on our way down to the stream we had previously passed when proceeding to Dārābgird. We followed this stream down to the walled hamlet of Bizhdan. As before, on our passage here on March 22nd, more painted potsherds and flints were collected on eroded ground above the deep-cut bed of the stream.
Our goal from Bizhdan was the wide basin of Khusu to the south, in which the several streams from the Däräb valley unite before passing towards Lāristan. The caravan track to Lar, which we followed on March 30th, led first across partly cultivated ground to a low spur of limestone overlooking the gap in which the Darāb streams make their way to the south. About 2 miles from Bizhdān some painted potsherds and a few worked flints were found scattered on a flat patch of bare clay » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 200

R17-096 Darab
R17-096 Darab : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Darab , Darab-e Do , داراب , داراب ? ,
VARIANT names: Darab , Darabegird , Darabghierd , Darabgird , Darap ,
SOURCE for Darab
« Darab » in {map#1180 in #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ fig. Abb. 5 Kartenausschnitt der Provinzen Bushehr und Fars}
« Après avoir eu long-temps , à quelque distance de nous , un nombre infini de ruines , parmi lesquelles est une colonne en briques , qui paraît avoir été un minaret , nous marchons entre des terres ensemencées pour arriver à Darâb . Cette ville , bâtie dans une vallée , est bornée au S. par deux collines que sépare un vallon [After having had for a long time, at some distance from us, an infinite number of ruins, among which is a brick column, which seems to have been a minaret, we walk between sown lands to arrive at Darâb. This town, built in a valley, is bounded to the S. by two hills separated by a valley.] » #3179 Adrien Dupré, Voyage en Perse, fait dans les années 1807, 1808 et 1809, en traversant la Natolie et la Mésopotamie, 1819 ~ vol. 1 p. 354
SOURCE for Darabegird
« Darābegird-Siraf. Darābegird 1 Tag Hasū » #1717 Schwarz, Paul, Iran im Mittelalter nach arabischen Geographen, O. Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1896 ~ p. 201
SOURCE for Darabghierd
« Tra le altre ville che si passarono, si lascio anche addietro di lontano la città di Darabghierd, che ritiene infin oggi il nome di Dario, da costoro detto Darab, da cui è fama che fosse fabbricata. [Among the other villas that passed by, the city of Darabghierd was also left far behind, which to this day retains the name of Darius, called by them Darab, by whom it is said that it was built.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 278
SOURCE for Darabgird
« In the central and comparatively well-watered portion of the Darab district circular ramparts, still imposing in their decay and adjoined by a great fosse, guard the site of Darabgird, measuring fully a mile in diameter. Surface remains within clearly proved occupation extending from late pre-Muhammadan to mediaeval times. The view from a rocky hill in the centre indicated »#886 Stein, Sir M. Aurel, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis.The Persian province of Fars, The Geographical Journal, London, 1935 (Dec.), 86:6:489-97 ~ p. 495
« Darabagird VI D4
Ruines à 5 km au Sud de Darab Iran
Capitale (gasaba) de la circonscription du même
#2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 48
« In Fars, a series of large, royal cities at Firuzabad, Bishapur, and Darabgird provide most of our archaeological evidence for settlement patterns in the heart of the empire. »#2357 Editor(s):D. T. Potts, A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012, ~ p. 1079
« The town of Daráb, or rather Darábgird, as it should be written, is not so well built as Fassa: the houses are mostly built of mud and stones; very few of kiln-burnt bricks were to be seen. The main street is long and straggling, and there is not a proper bazar; but owing to the gardens, which are numerous and apparently thriv-ing, it appears to cover a lot of ground. » #3120 John Richard Preece, Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab, Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1884 ~ p. 9
SOURCE for Darap
« 20 mai. Nous partimes de grand matin, et arrivâmes à Darap vers midi.Darap est dans une belle situation; les eaux y sont abondantes; la plaine et les montagnes couvertes de végétation. Le Palmier y croît encore, mais n'y forme plus d'épaisses forêts; la chaleur n'étant plus trop ardente, il ne faut pas, comme dans les pays très-chauds, chercher à leur procurer de la fraîcheur par des irrigations [May 20. We left early in the morning, and arrived at Darap around noon.Darap is in a good situation; the waters are abundant there; the plain and the mountains covered with vegetation. The palm tree still grows there, but no longer forms thick forests; the heat no longer being too intense, we must not, as in very hot countries, try to provide them with coolness by irrigation. ] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 598

R17-097 Gardaneh Balisht
R17-097 Gardaneh Balisht : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS UFI: -3054983 coordinate: lat 28.85 long 54.6
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh Balisht , Gardaneh-ye Balesht ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh Balisht ,
SOURCE for Gardaneh Balisht

R17-098 Duzdu
R17-098 Duzdu : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Dozdu , Duzdu , دزدو ,
VARIANT names: Duzdu ,
SOURCE for Duzdu
« After a short ascent over a stony spur it led us into a thickly wooded winding gorge, which we followed down to a spot known as Gul, where a small open space and a pool holding rain-water allowed us to camp after a total march of about 20 miles. After a night which brought a violent rain-storm and, at an elevation of 7,300 ft., a bitterly cold wind, the march was resumed northward. Badly ruined walls about Gul seemed to indicate the former existence of plantations and possibly of dwellings also. Moving over more open ground to the NW. we passed the wells of Duzdu and Chah-dimeh in hollows, marking summer camps of nomads. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 203

R17-099 Chah-Dimeh
R17-099 Chah-Dimeh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chah Dimeh , جاه دیمه ,
VARIANT names: Chah Dimeh ,
SOURCE for Chah Dimeh
« After a short ascent over a stony spur it led us into a thickly wooded winding gorge, which we followed down to a spot known as Gul, where a small open space and a pool holding rain-water allowed us to camp after a total march of about 20 miles. After a night which brought a violent rain-storm and, at an elevation of 7,300 ft., a bitterly cold wind, the march was resumed northward. Badly ruined walls about Gul seemed to indicate the former existence of plantations and possibly of dwellings also. Moving over more open ground to the NW. we passed the wells of Duzdu and Chah-dimeh in hollows, marking summer camps of nomads. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 203

R17-100 Chah-shor
R17-100 Chah-shor : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FRM UFI: 10403533 coordinate: lat 29.0751 long 54.4835
NIMA/GNS names: Chah Shur-e `Olya , Chah Shur-e Bozorg , چاه شور بزرگ , چاه شور علیا ,
VARIANT names: Chah Shur-e `Olya , Chah-shor ,
SOURCE for Chah Shur-e `Olya
SOURCE for Chah-shor
« a night hich brought a violent rain-storm and, at an elevation of 7,300 ft., a bitterly cold wind, the march was resumed northward. Badly ruined walls about Gul seemed to indicate the former existence of After a gentle descent to an open grassy valley with plentiful tree-growth, which one of these little streams drains, the broad saddle was finally gained which forms the watershed between the drainage of Darab and the Niriz basin at a height of 6,450 ft. A grassy spot a little lower down, with a well which, though known as Chah-shor (the 'Salt Well'), offered fairly fresh water, allowed us to camp. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 203

R17-101 Chah-shor
R17-101 Chah-shor : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FRM UFI: 10403533 coordinate: lat 29.0751 long 54.4835
NIMA/GNS names: Chah Shur-e `Olya , Chah Shur-e Bozorg , چاه شور بزرگ , چاه شور علیا ,
VARIANT names: Chah Shur-e `Olya , Chah-shor ,
SOURCE for Chah Shur-e `Olya
SOURCE for Chah-shor
« a night hich brought a violent rain-storm and, at an elevation of 7,300 ft., a bitterly cold wind, the march was resumed northward. Badly ruined walls about Gul seemed to indicate the former existence of After a gentle descent to an open grassy valley with plentiful tree-growth, which one of these little streams drains, the broad saddle was finally gained which forms the watershed between the drainage of Darab and the Niriz basin at a height of 6,450 ft. A grassy spot a little lower down, with a well which, though known as Chah-shor (the 'Salt Well'), offered fairly fresh water, allowed us to camp. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 203

R17-102 rock cisterns
R17-102 rock cisterns : place IRN
VARIANT names: rock cisterns ,
SOURCE for rock cisterns
[no place name given - description used for Route 17 stage 102. PBR]
«
On April 8th an easy march down the fairly open valley took us to Niriz town. What small patches of cultivation were met on the way lower down were irrigated from qanāts. At a point about 6½ miles from Chah-shor a small spur holds two cisterns just above the road, cut into the solid rock and evidently old. The larger one, measuring 14 × 6½ ft., is partly covered by large
blocks of stone obtained from the excavation and showing the respectable dimensions of 10 × 2 ft., with a thickness of 1 ft. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 204

R17-103 Niriz
R17-103 Niriz : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Neyriz , Niriz , نیریز ,
VARIANT names: Narezzash , Nayriz , Neiriz , Neris , Neyriz , Niriz ,
SOURCE for Narezzash
« For the Achaemenid period, we must remember that the identification of Niriz with the Narezzash of the Persepolis Fortification tablets is not in doubt (Hallock, 1969, p. 737, s.v. Narezzash). The importance of the region increases if, as W. Henkelman suggests (2003, 159-162), Narezzash was the place of the shumar (probably tomb, memorial) of Cambyses, Cyrus’ son. » #3366 Rémy Boucharlat, Eastern Fars a Poorly Explored Region of Great Archaeological Potential Special edition of Farr-e Firouz in Honor of Dr. Firouz Bagherzadeh, 2019 ~ p. 131
SOURCE for Nayriz
« Nayriz VI D4 Id Iran Nähiya (territoire) de la circonscription de Darābagird et son chef-lieu Ι 108, 134, Η 268, 288, Hur 46, F 203, Muq 421, 423, 429, 443, 448, 452, 455 Yaq IV, 856-57, LS 289-90, Schw 105 » #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 55
SOURCE for Neiriz
« Von Neiriz führt eine Straße am Südrande des Neiriz-Salzsees bis nach Shiraz. An dieser Straße liegen im Abstand von jeweils 25 km safavidische Karawansarais, die aber heute fast gänzlich zerstört sind. [A road leads from Neiriz along the southern edge of the Neiriz Salt Lake to Shiraz. Safavid caravanserais are located along this road at intervals of 25 km, but they are now almost completely destroyed.] » #3367 Gropp, G., Nadjmabadi, S.,, Bericht ¸ber eine Reise in West- und Südiran, Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, 1970 vol. 3:pp. 173-230. ~ p. 197
SOURCE for Neris
« Neris » in {map#1363 in #3538 Captain H. E. Wells, Surveying Tours in Southern Persia, Proceedings of the royal geographical society, London, vol. 5:no. 3:pp. 138-163 ~ fig. map to accompany article}
SOURCE for Neyriz
« Neyriz - Attestations: In the inscription of Shapur I at Ka'ba Zardusht, there is a reference to the šahrāb of Neyriz (ŠKZ, line 50) (106). According to this inscription, Neyriz may have been a separate province (šahr) during the early Sasanian period, attached to Darabgerd as early as the late 4th century, when the DA mint signature was recorded on coins, while there exists no mint signature that can be identified with Neyriz. Alternatively, Darabgerd may have been referred to as Neyriz in this early Sasanian period inscription, with its name being changed to Darabgerd before the late 4th century. - Identification: The modern town of Neyriz is located about 288 km east of Shiraz.
#2877 Negin Miri, Historical Geography of Fars during the Sasanian Period, e-Sasanika, 2009, 10: ~ p. 26
« Neyriz itself is a poor town, containing about 1500 families, including those of its three adjacent forts. It occupies a consider- able space with its gardens and houses in a corner of the plain near mountains, and on the south-eastern extremity of the lake, from which it is distant about 7 miles. In some of our maps it is erroneously placed on the northern shore. Its bazar possesses some forty or fifty shops and three caravanserais, but the former are of the meanest description. Though this place is on the high- road between Shiráz and Kermán, such is the limited nature of the traffic between the two places that we had not encountered a single caravan in all the distance between Sirjan and Neyriz. » #3106 Keith Edward Abbott, Geographical Notes, Taken during a Journey in Persia in 1849 and 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1855 ~ p. 71
SOURCE for Niriz
« At 13¼ miles from Niriz (stage 1), where the road debouches
on to the Istehbānāt valley, it passes through a narrow defile, formed by the bed of a stream, where the water has cut a passage through a mass of rock. » #3113 Routes in Persia. vol. III, part I., Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1918 ~ p. 158
« Niriz with its belt of almond plantations and fruit gardens, set between a semicircle of utterly barren mountains and the wide salt-encrusted bed of its great dried-up lake, from a distance presented the picture of a true Central Asian oasis. What cultivation there is to the N. and NW. on the flat expanse descending towards the lake basin, which now rarely holds any water, depends wholly on qanāt irrigation. This may explain why, in spite of repeated inquiries and search, no prehistoric remains could be traced in the neighbourhood.Niriz is duly mentioned by the early Arab geographers, and Muqaddasi among them notes the mineral contents of its mountains to the NE. They may yet some day give importance to the place which at present counts among its main resources its produce of almonds and raisins. Ibn-al-Balkhi's brief account mentions the abundance of grapes, and shows that both Niriz and Katrü were in his time included in the Shabankāreh chiefship. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 204

R17-104 `Aliabad
R17-104 `Aliabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: `Aliabad , علی آباد ,
VARIANT names: Aliabad , Ali-Abad ,
SOURCE for Aliabad
« In the neighbourhood of Lar are a few villages. At twelve miles we passed the ruins of Tanguni, with a small but well-built caravansarai, now untenanted; the qanat which gave life to the place has been choked some years. Here the plain proper ends in a tangle of dry watercourses and ravines, which extend ten miles, Kahna. 147 and then smooth themselves out into the plain of Aliabad, a circular area surrounded by black rocky hills, with Aliabad village in a tamarisk grove in the middle. Here the Forg and Hormuz roads diverge : we left Aliabad three miles on the right, and turned northward » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ vol. 1 pp. 146-7
« Aliabad » in {map#1203 in #1241 Wilson, Sir Arnold T., Notes on a Journey from Bandar Abbas to Shiraz via Lar, in February and March, 1907, The Geographical Journal, London, 1908 (Feb.) 31:2:152-69 ~ fig. Country between Bandar Abbas abd Siraz}
SOURCE for Ali-Abad
« 16 février. Nous suivons la plaine qui s'élève un peu après un caravansérall ruiné; deux farsangs plus loin, le village d'Ali-Abad; à gauche de la route, à demi-farsang, est un caravansérail. [February 16. We follow the plain which rises a little after a ruined caravanserall; two farsangs further, the village of Ali-Abad; to the left of the road, half farsang, is a caravanserai.] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 531

R17-105 Darwazeh
R17-105 Darwazeh : place IRN
Supplement: unable to verify. known as Khans castle
VARIANT names: Ay Yovan , Darwazeh ,
SOURCE for Ay Yovan
« At 9? miles occurred the small fort of Ay Yovan, unoccupied, but surrounded by black tents. » #3106 Keith Edward Abbott, Geographical Notes, Taken during a Journey in Persia in 1849 and 1850, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1855 ~ p. 72
SOURCE for Darwazeh
« On the following morning we were guided to a little hillock close to the lake shore crowned by remains of coarse masonry marking a small fort and known as Darwāzeh, the 'Gate', not far from which was a shallow well of fresh water. The pot- sherds strewing the ground around did not indicate any great age. Just opposite was seen the salt-encrusted depression through which the waters of the Pulvar river at times of exceptional floods were said to flow into the Niriz lake basin » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq,1935 ~ p. 205

R17-106 Chashmeh-i-Qal'a-i-Maku
R17-106 Chashmeh-i-Qal'a-i-Maku : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: SPNG UFI: 12354770 coordinate: lat 29.452572 long 54.234667
NIMA/GNS names: Cheshmeh-ye Kal Meku , چشمه کل مکو ,
VARIANT names: Chashmeh-i-Qal'a-i-Makū , Cheshmeh-ye Kal Meku ,
SOURCE for Chashmeh-i-Qal'a-i-Makū
« Before crossing the range behind which it lies we were obliged to halt for the night at a small spring known as Chashmeh-i-Qal'a-i-Mākū, situated at an elevation of 6,800 ft. below the high peak of Koh-i-Sar Safid. Next morning a stiff climb, difficult for laden mules, brought us along a narrow rocky spur to an unsurveyed pass known to our Karai guides by the name of Pirisu. It lies at an elevation of 8,600 ft. across a shoulder of the conspicuous peak rising close on 2,000 ft. higher. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 205
SOURCE for Cheshmeh-ye Kal Meku

R17-107 Koh-i-Sar Safid
R17-107 Koh-i-Sar Safid : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PK UFI: -3196754 coordinate: lat 29.537548 long 54.252697
NIMA/GNS names: Kuh-e Sar Safid , Kuh-e Sar Sefid , Kuh-i-Sar Sefid , كوه سر سفيد ,
VARIANT names: Koh-i-Sar Safid , Kuh-e Sar Sefid ,
SOURCE for Koh-i-Sar Safid
« Before crossing the range behind which it lies we were obliged to halt for the night at a small spring known as Chashmeh-i-Qal'a-i-Mākū, situated at an elevation of 6,800 ft. below the high peak of Koh-i-Sar Safid. Next morning a stiff climb, difficult for laden mules, brought us along a narrow rocky spur to an unsurveyed pass known to our Karai guides by the name of Pirisu. It lies at an elevation of 8,600 ft. across a shoulder of the conspicuous peak rising close on 2,000 ft. higher. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 205
SOURCE for Kuh-e Sar Sefid

R17-108 Pirisu pass
R17-108 Pirisu pass : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: SPNG UFI: 12354772 coordinate: lat 29.45091 long 54.236211
NIMA/GNS names: Cheshmeh-ye Pir Su , چشمه پیر سو ,
VARIANT names: Cheshmeh-ye Pir Su , Pirisu pass ,
SOURCE for Cheshmeh-ye Pir Su
SOURCE for Pirisu pass
« Next morning a stiff climb, difficult for laden mules, brought us along a narrow rocky spur to an unsurveyed pass known to our Karai guides by the name of Pirisu. It lies at an elevation of 8,600 ft. across a shoulder of the conspicuous peak rising close on 2,000 ft. higher. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 205

R17-109 Mishkan
R17-109 Mishkan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Meshkan , Mishkun , Moshgan , Moshkan , مشکان ,
VARIANT names: Maskanat , Mishkan , Mishkun , Miskanan ,
SOURCE for Maskanat
« Mishkan, also known as Mishkūn, is briefly mentioned by Ibn-al--Balkhi as a district near Niriz. Its identity with the locality variously called by the Arab geographers Maskānāt, Māskanat, Miskānān, is not subject to doubt, as Ibn Kordādbih places it between Hira (the present Khir, west of Niriz) and Shahr-i-Babak. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 205
SOURCE for Mishkan
« by the view down the gentle slopes and grassy valley bottom towards Mishkan. After a couple of miles the easy descent led past a continuous stretch of carefully laid out terraces with almond plantations and vineyards, on the produce of which the attractively situated village mainly depends. Mishkan, also known as Mishkūn, is briefly mentioned by Ibn-al--Balkhi as a district near Niriz. Its identity with the locality variously called by the Arab geographers Maskānāt, Māskanat, Miskānān, is not subject to doubt, as Ibn Kordādbih places it between Hira (the present Khir, west of Niriz) and Shahr-i-Babak. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 205
SOURCE for Mishkun
SOURCE for Miskanan

R17-110 Duhu : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Deh Moshkan , Deh-e Moshgan , Deh-e Moshkan , Dehu , دهو ,
VARIANT names: Dehu , Duhu ,
SOURCE for Dehu
SOURCE for Duhu
« Our march of some 24 miles on April 17th lay, after passing Duhu, a deserted hamlet, along a great flat basin without a single habitation or cultivated patch of ground. Plentiful low scrub and fresh sprouting grass would offer here in the summer an extensive grazing-ground for Khamseh tribes from the south. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 205

R17-111 Chahak
R17-111 Chahak : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chahak , چاهک ,
VARIANT names: Chahak , Sahah ,
SOURCE for Chahak
« No sign of cultivation was seen until near the northern edge of this basin the walled village of Chahak was approached. The picture of far-advanced decay presented by it and its surroundings fully agreed with the traditional statement that, instead of depending as now on four qanāts for its irrigation, Chāhak once counted sixty or seventy. The ruined site of which a report had reached me at Niriz proved to be an area thickly strewn with potsherds extending for at least mile round the crumbling walls of a small enclosure known as Qadam-gāh to the south of the village. Plentiful glazed pottery, mostly of turquoise colour with patterns drawn in black, as well as pieces of fine lustre ware (30, 34, 37, Pl. xxvII) and plain potsherds with bold broad ribbing clearly indicated occupation of the site during medieval times. Much of such pottery was to be seen embedded in the mud foundations and walls of the ruined enclosure. Abundance of slag and iron-smeltings marked the existence of former local industries.Chāhak can be safely identified with the Sahah mentioned by Ibn-al-Balkhi along with Harah, the present Harat-i-Khurreh, to the north of Chāhak. 'The climate here is temperate, but running streams are scarce. In Sahah they get iron, and of the steel make swords and other blades, which [after the name of the town] are called Chāhaki. Both these towns are populous.' The location of the Sahah or Sahak of the Arab geographers at Chāhak is confirmed by Istakhri's itinerary, which places it between Deh-i- mürd and Sarmaqan on the route from Istakhr towards Sirjān in the Kerman province. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 206
SOURCE for Sahah
« Chāhak can be safely identified with the Sahah mentioned by Ibn-al-Balkhi along with Harah, the present Harat-i-Khurreh, to the north of Chāhak. 'The climate here is temperate, but running streams are scarce. In Sahah they get iron, and of the steel make swords and other blades, which [after the name of the town] are called Chāhaki. Both these towns are populous.' The location of the Sahah or Sahak of the Arab geographers at Chāhak is confirmed by Istakhri's itinerary, which places it between Deh-i- mürd and Sarmaqan on the route from Istakhr towards Sirjān in the Kerman province. » #3162 Aurel Stein, An Archaeological Tour in the Ancient Persis, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 1935 ~ p. 206

R17-114 Chinarnaz
R17-114 Chinarnaz : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chenar Nar , Chenar Naz , Chenar-e Naz , چنار نار , چنار ناز ,
VARIANT names: Chenar-e Naz ,
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R17-115 Kurkhungan
R17-115 Kurkhungan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Garkhonkan , Karkhonkan , Korkhongan , Korkhongu , Kurkbunjan , Kurkhunjan , كرخنكان , كرخنگان , كرخنگو , گرخنكان ,
VARIANT names: Korkhongan ,
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R17-116 Garmeh
R17-116 Garmeh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FRM UFI: -3063616 coordinate: lat 30.1276 long 53.9678
NIMA/GNS names: Garmeh , Jarmaq , Mazra`eh-ye Garmak , جرمق , گرمه , مزرعه گرمک ,
VARIANT names: Garmeh ,
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R17-118 Mazijan
R17-118 Mazijan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Mazayjan , Mazijan , مزایجان ,
VARIANT names: Mazayjan , Mazian ,
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« At Mazián we struck the river which flows to Marvás, the chief town to the north of Arávirjun; it was a large village, but its inhabitants said that they were sure to be robbed if they left home. » #1631 Sykes, Major P. Molesworth, Ten thousand miles in Persia or eight years in Iran, John Murray, London, 1902, ~ p. 80

R17-117 Tang-i-maur
R17-117 Tang-i-maur : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Darreh-ye Tang Mur , Tang-e Mur , Tang-e Tang Mahur , تنگ تنگ ماهور , تنگ مور , دره تنگ مور ,
VARIANT names: Tang-e Mur ,
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R17-119 Surian
R17-119 Surian : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Sureyan , Surian , Suriyan , سوریان ,
VARIANT names: Surian ,
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R17-120 Deh Bid
R17-120 Deh Bid : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Deh Bid , Safashahr , ده بید , صفاشهر ,
VARIANT names: Deh Bid , Deh-Bid , Dehebeth ,
SOURCE for Deh Bid
« Deh Bid (Telegraph station). ... then crossing a barren moorland descends to Deh Bid. A telegraph office and post-house, but no village. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 189
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« and the fourth at the small settlement of Deh-Bid, with poor quarters, but the convenience of a telegraph office. » #3178 Jackson, A. V. Williams, Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, The Macmillan Company, London, 1906 ~ p. 277
SOURCE for Dehebeth
« De li a tre zornate se viene ad una villa chiamata Dehebeth,330) in la qual el se lavora terre e lavori de gottoni;fn. 330. Dehebeth = Dihbid, grosso villaggio sulla strada da Isfahan a Shiräz, che dista 288 km. dalla prima città e 207 dalla seconda. Situato a grande altitudine, ha un clima rigido ed è ben noto per essere frequentemente battuto da forti venti. Cfr. E. G. BROWNE, A Year amongst the Persians, London, 1893, p. 136. (Lo.) [From there onwards one comes to a village called Dehebeth, 330) in which land and copper works are worked; fn. 330. Dehebeth = Dihbid, a large village on the road from Isfahan to Shiräz, which is 288 km. from the first city and 207 from the second. Situated at a high altitude, it has a harsh climate and is well known for being frequently buffeted by strong winds. Cfr. E. G. BROWNE, A Year amongst the Persians, London, 1893, p. 136. (Lo.)] » #3310 Lockhart,L. Morozzo Della Rocca,R. Tiepolo,M.F., I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini, Ist. Poligrafico dello Stato, 1973 ~ p. 150

R17-121 Qal`eh-i-Miarche
R17-121 Qal`eh-i-Miarche : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FRM UFI: 259697 coordinate: lat 30.5015 long 53.2055
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh Murcheh , Qal`eh-ye Murcheh , قلعه مورچه ,
VARIANT names: Gusti , Khan-i-Kirgan , Qal`eh-ye Murcheh , Station Qal'eh Murceh ,
SOURCE for Gusti
« The 23. I was in like manner forc'd to travel 12. Leagues, to the Village of Gusti, where we were very ill accommodated, our Horses having not so much as a house over their heads, though it were very bad weather, and snow'd all night. The 24. we had a dayes journey, as great as the two precedent, but a much worse way; for as soon as we were out of Gusti, we came into mountains covered with snow, and had that day very cruel wea|ther, though the Countrey thereabouts a man may think should afford a very pleasant prospect in Spring and Summer. » #3669 Adam Olearius, Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, John Davies, The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, J. Starkey and T. Basset, 1669 ~ Mandelslo pt. 2 p. 2
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« Next day we started early, as the muleteers were anxious to " break " a stage that is, to go three stages in two days ; so that our halting-place for the night was not to be Dihbíd, where there is a telegraph station, but Khán- i-Kirgán, situated some two hours' march beyond it. » #3380 Browne, Edward Granville, A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 ~ p. 235
« In five minutes more we crossed a bridge and found ourselves at the solitary caravansaray of Khán- i-Kirgán . As it was quite dark, and I was, moreover, very cold and » #3380 Browne, Edward Granville, A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 ~ p. 237
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« Station Qal'eh Murceh (Taf. 11,1) (Abb. 5; 110) (78)Lage: 13 km südlich von Dehbid und 22 km nördlich von Didgan (Didegan), in + 2170 m ü. N. N., an der Haupt-straße von Esfahan nach Shiraz.Typ: Rechteckbau mit Innenhof und zwei Iwanen.Abmessungen: Außenmaße 14,10 × 15,10 m, Hofabmes-sungen 9,30 × 4,50 m, Gebäudehöhe 3,50 m.Baumaterial: Bruchsteine und Lehmziegel.Bauliche Besonderheiten und Zustand: Stark verfalleneRuine.Inschriften: keine bekannt.Datierung: Qadjarisch, 19.-20. Jahrhundert.Die Ruine ist als ehemaliger Straßenposten und Gen-darmeriestation anzusehen.fn 78 Die Station wurde am 1. 10. 1989 vermessen. [Qal'eh Murceh Station (Plate 11.1) (Fig. 5; 110) (78)
Location: 13 km south of Dehbid and 22 km north of Didgan, at an elevation of 2170 m above sea level, on the main road from Isfahan to Shiraz.
Type: Rectangular building with an inner courtyard and two iwans.
Dimensions: Exterior dimensions 14.10 × 15.10 m, courtyard dimensions 9.30 × 4.50 m, building height 3.50 m.
Building material: Rubble and mud bricks.
Structural features and condition: Severely dilapidated
ruin.
Inscriptions: None known.
Dating: Qajar, 19th-20th century.
The ruin is considered a former road post and gendarmerie station.] » #3380 Browne, Edward Granville, A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 ~ p. 64

R17-123 Gardaneh-ye Mian Mala
R17-123 Gardaneh-ye Mian Mala : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS UFI: 11188777 coordinate: lat 30.387613 long 53.222031
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-ye Mian Mala , Gardaneh-ye Shahidabad , Hajjiabad , حاجی آباد , گردنه شهید آباد , گردنه ميان مالا ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh-ye Mian Mala ,
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R17-122 Shahidabad
R17-122 Shahidabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Cham Bayan , Cham-e Bayan , Shahidabad , چم بیان , شهید آباد ,
VARIANT names: Shahidabad ,
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R17-124 Pasargadae
R17-124 Pasargadae : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: -3077983 coordinate: lat 30.2034 long 53.1809
NIMA/GNS names: Mantaqeh-ye Bastani-ye Pasargad , Parsa Garda , Parsehgarda , Pasargad , Pasargada , Pasargadae , Pasargade , Passargad , Pazargad , Shahr-e Pazargad , پاسارگاد , منطقه باستانی پاسارگاد ,
VARIANT names: Badrakatash , Batrakatash , Pasargadae , Pasargadai , Tall-i Nokhodi ,
SOURCE for Badrakatash
See his CHI fasc. (1971) 17 – 20. For the numbers employed at the different centres see Dandamayev’s statistics (above n.27). Since then Hallock has enlarged on the topographical implications of the tablets and seals (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica VI (1977) 127 – 33, Cahiers DAFI VIII (1978) 109 – 16), altering the areas he had defined and making some locations seem more hazardous; granted that Bairsha (Parsa) is Persepolis, it would now appear that at least two of the following equations must be erroneous: Matezza = Humadeshu, Rak-kan = Arrajan, Badrakatash = Pasargadai, Nupishtash = Naksh-i Rustam, Narezzash = Neyriz, Tamukkan = Taoke. #250 note 30 p. 244
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#846 vol. 2 p. 1339 see notes ref846.pdf
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« map of "Iran before the Medes and the Persians"; Medes entered history in the 9c BC » #411 Whitehouse, David and Ruth, Archaeological Atlas of the World, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1975 p. 79
before the Medes and Persians #411 p. 78
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R17-122 Murghab
R17-122 Murghab : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Dasht-e Morghab , Mahalleh-ye Mashhad-e Morghab , Meshhed-i-Murghab , Morghab , Murghab , دشت مرغاب , محله مشهد مرغاب ,
VARIANT names: Mashad-i-Murghab , Meshad-i Murghab , Murghab ,
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« A steep descent brought us into the fertile plain of the Polvár, where we crossed two of its tributaries, and were delighted to strike the main road and the British telegraph line at Mashad-i-Murgháb. » #1631 Sykes, Major P. Molesworth, Ten thousand miles in Persia or eight years in Iran, John Murray, London, 1902, ~ p. 80
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« Finally, at noon on the fifth day, we reached Meshad-i Murghab, the nearest halting-place to the Tomb of Cyrus and the scenes of the past glory of the Achæmenians. » #3178 Jackson, A. V. Williams, Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, The Macmillan Company, London, 1906 ~ p. 277
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« At 20 miles à fine stream is suddenly produced by a spring on the left of the road, which runs with great force, and waters the villages of Kadirabad and Murghab. Both these are large rich villages, the latter having a post-house built against the edge of a dry, flat plateau running out into the valley; the latter is swampy. The best g ground to encamp is above the village. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 189
« Early in the afternoon we descended into the valley of Murgháb, and, passing the hamlet of that name (a well- built and thriving-looking village, pleasantly situated by a beautiful clear streamlet) halted at Dih -i-Naw, some three miles farther on. » #3380 Browne, Edward Granville, A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 ~ p. 238

R17-125 Sivand
R17-125 Sivand : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Sivan , Sivand , سیوند ,
VARIANT names: Sevan , Sivand , Siwa , Siwan ,
SOURCE for Sevan
« 15th [February]. At noon Arrived at Sevan, 5 farsangs. The first farsang good way, the next two bad cragie way, amongst rocks and mountains, but the last 2 good way again; most of our way had a fine large brooke runing by the road, good store of game. » #3248 Bernard P. Scattergood, Ed. Temple, Carnac Rihard, The Scattergoods and the East India Company, A Collection of Mss., Indian Antiquary, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930 vol. LIX:pt DCCXXXVI-A:pp. 33-74 ~ p. 40
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« Leaving this happy valley we entered another defile , which brought us, a little before 6 ?.?. , to the village of Sívand, in which is situated the last telegraph station before Shíráz. » #3380 Browne, Edward Granville, A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 ~ p. 244
SOURCE for Siwa
« On theNine and Twentieth of Febr. we came to a little village called Siwa, having that day travailed 5 Dutch Miles. » #3675 John Struys, trans. John Morrison, The Perillous and Most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys; through Italy, Greece, … Media, Persia, …, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia, London, 1683 ~ p. 331
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« The 26. I got five Leagues to the Village of Siwan; The 27. six Leagues to Mardasch. This last Village is very famous, for the Antiquities which are to be seen near it, and which obliged us, as they do all that travel that way, to make a particular Observation thereof. » #3669 Adam Olearius, Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, John Davies, The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, J. Starkey and T. Basset, 1669 ~ Mandelslo pt. 2 p. 2

R17-126 Hashtiajan
R17-126 Hashtiajan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Hashteyjan , Hashtijan , هشتیجان ,
VARIANT names: Hashteyjan ,
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R17-128 Firuzi
R17-128 Firuzi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Firoozi Marvdasht , Firuzi , Firuzi-ye Marvdasht , فیروزی ,
VARIANT names: Firuzi ,
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R17-131 Pul-i-Khan
R17-131 Pul-i-Khan : place IRN (bridge)
NIMA/GNS feature: BDG UFI: -3078460 coordinate: lat 29.8515 long 52.77
NIMA/GNS names: Pol-e Khan , Pol-e Khan , Pul-i-khan , پل خان ,
VARIANT names: bridge , Pola Khan , Pol-e Khan , Polochan , Pul-i-Khan , Pulochani , River Bindamire Bridge ,
SOURCE for bridge
« At 20 miles the Bandamir river is erossed by a masonry bridge with 3 high arches. The river runs strongly at the bridge, though it is elsewhere slow and deep, about 45 feet broad, with mud banks 10 feet above the level of the water. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 191
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« When the day broke, we crossed the Bund Ameer by a lofty but now nearly ruined bridge. The river's bed was deep, the stream rapid, and flowing to the south-east through the plain. This was called, by the natives, Pola Khan. The Bund Ameer was the Araxes of the ancients, » #1185 Buckingham, J. S., Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore, Henry Colburn: Gregg International Publishers Limited, London: London, 1829:1971, ~ p. 286
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« seven miles beyond zarqan we reached the narrow, old bridge of Pol-e Khan, where the road crossed the Pulvar River, guarded by a whitewashed and crenellated gendarmerie post. The new girder bridge was not yet in use, so all traffic was still negotiating the sharp bends on to and off the old one, past an overturned car on the sharpest » #3119 Duncan Forbes, The Heart of Iran, R. Hale, 1963 ~ p. 146
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« Nous employames quatre heures depuis le Village Tschûl ou Nakſchi Rustâm, jusqu'à Polochan le grand pont Bendemir dont j'ai fait mention cy desfus. [We spent four hours from the Village Tschûl or Nakſchi Rustâm, to Polochan the large Bendemir bridge which I mentioned above.] » #3642 Niebuhr, Carsten, Voyage en Arabie et en d'autres pays circonvoisins, vol. 2, S.J. Baalde, Amsterdam, 1780 ~ vol. 2 p. 135
SOURCE for Pul-i-Khan
« Pul-i-Khan » in {map#1135 U.S. Army Map Series K501: Iraq and Iran:, , , The University of Chicago fig. Shiraz H-39Q 1948}
SOURCE for Pulochani
« Pulochani (Pol-e Chani), » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher Engelbert Kaempfers, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 97
SOURCE for River Bindamire Bridge
« The Bridge over the River is very old, raised high by four Arches, in the middle a Watch-Tower for the Rhadars to look put on, to apprehend such as shall by By-ways attempt to deprive them pf their Customs, as also to be at hand to secure those that Travel the Road. » #1591 Fryer, John M. D., A New Account of East-India and Persia in eight letters being nine years travel (Edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke), Hakluyt Society:Kraus Reprint, 1909:1967, 3 vols. ~ vol. 2 p. 220

R17-129 Zarghun
R17-129 Zarghun : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Zargan , Zarghanak , Zarqan , زرقان ,
VARIANT names: Dih Gurg , Serghoen , Sergoen , Zargan , Zarghan , Zarghun , Zargoen , Zargoone , Zarkan , Zercon , Zerghun , Zergone , Zergoon , Zerraghoon , Zurgoon ,
SOURCE for Dih Gurg
« The first stage is of 6 leagues, from Shiraz to Dih Gurg in the Shiraz District; the second stage is 6 leagues to the head of the Bridge over the River Kür; ...
fn. 1 Neither Dih Gurg, "Wolf Village," nor the Bridge over the Kur now exists; Shahriyar's Kiosk must have been at or near modern Ujan; »
#3077 G. Le Strange, Description of the Province of Fars, in Persia, at the Beginning of the Twelfth Century A.D. from the MS. of Ibn-al-Balkhi, in the British Museum Asiatic Society Monographs XIV, Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1912 ~ p. 78
« thence 5 to Dih Gurg (Wolf Village), » #1764 ed. Le Strange, G., The geographical part of the Nuzhat-al-qulub composed by Hamd-Alla¯h Mustawfi¯ of Qazwi¯n in 740 (1340), E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1919 ~ p. 176
SOURCE for Serghoen
« Continuing from Chihil Minar, Stodart arrived at Zarghan, which was a poor town situated on the side of a hill one English mile from Rustam's tomb (i.e. Naqsh-i Rustam, the tomb of Darius I), which had been turned into a mosque. Here was good water. Speelman recorded that the village was divided into two parts, and built close to the slope of the moun-tain. Fryer called it a poor village inhabited by mule-teers, while Hedges considered it a large and exceed-ing pleasant one, in a plain full of vineyards. (75) 75 Stodart, p. 76 (Zargoone); Speelman, pp. 105-6 (Serghoen); Fryer, vol. II. p. 218 (Zergoon); Hedges, p. 208 (Zurgoon); KA 1793, fol. 1013b (Sergoen); Winninx, 3 November (Sergoe); de Silva y Figueroa, p. 140 (Zargan); LeBrun, vol. II, p. 301 (Sergoen); Carmelites, loc. cit. (Band-i Amir, Zarghan; karavansaray). » #1169 Floor, Willem, The Bandar Abbas-Isfahan Route in the Late Safavid era, Iran, Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, London, 1999, 37:67-94 ~ p. 75
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« A few miles beyond the Bendemeer bridge the village of Zargan, or Zergun, lies nestled at the foot of a mountain, » #3178 Jackson, A. V. Williams, Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, The Macmillan Company, London, 1906 ~ p. 321
« which form the eastern limit of the valley, we reached Zargán, our last stage before Shíráz, about dusk. » #3380 Browne, Edward Granville, A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve month's residence in that country in the years 1887-8, Adam and Charles Black, 1893 ~ p. 256
« Por esta causa no se caminó entonces mas de tres leguas pequeñas, parando tenprano en una pequeña y pobre aldea llamada Zargan, al pie de un alto monte, á donde el Enbaxador, con parte de sus criados, se recogieron en una mezquita en que auia rrazonable hospedaje, que-dando la caravana y demas gente en el canpo. [For this reason, they did not travel more than three short leagues, stopping early in a small and poor village called Zargan, at the foot of a high mountain, where the Ambassador, with some of his servants, stayed in a mosque where there was reasonable lodging, while the caravan and other people remained in the countryside.] » #3245 García de Silva y Figueroa, Manuel Serrano y Sanz, Comentarios De D. Garcia De Silva Y Figueroa De La Embajada Que De Parte Del Rey De España Don Felipe III Hizo Al Rey Xa Abas De Persia, La Spciedad de Bibliofilos Espanoles, Madrid, 1905 ~ vol. 1 p. 368
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« 3rd March, Zarghun. As my route from Shiraz would not lead in the direction of Persepolis, and as it seemed a pity to let slip an opportunity of seeing such a famous place, I determined to spend four days in an excursion thither, » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ p. 57
« , reaches the town of Zargun. The latter is a long straggling place of 2,000 houses, mostly one-storeyed, with flat roofs, built close up to a chain of barren, rocky mountains on the castern margin of a low plain, full of gardens and cultivation. The main street is narrow and filthy, with a number of shops scattered through it, forming a bazaar said to be well supplied. There is a post-house at the N. end of the town, and two mud enclosures in the main street, serving the purpose of caravansarais. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 191
SOURCE for Zargoen
« Elle y eſt aussi fort large et fort pro fonde; et les bords en font eſcarpez et fort élevez. On y trouve plufieurs fortes de canards, et on la traverſe pour ſe rendre à Persepolis, qui n'en eſt qu'à deux lieuës. Nous arrivames ſur les onze heures à Zargoen, bourg agréablement ſitué entre les montagnes et rempli de jardins, qui abondent en melons, en raifins et en toutes fortes de fruits. [It is also very wide and very deep; and its banks are steep and very high. Several flocks of ducks are found there, and it is crossed to reach Persepolis, which is only two leagues away. We arrived around eleven o'clock at Zargoen, a pleasantly situated town nestled among the mountains and filled with gardens, which abound in melons, grapes, and all kinds of fruit.] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ p. 259
SOURCE for Zargoone
« I took horse and cam this night to Zargoone [Zarghün], a poor towne vpon the side of a hill wthin an English mile to Rustames howse, wch is now turned to be a muskeet, weh we call a church, and is kept in repayration. Here we picht in the Rices howse, wch is the cheifest man of the towne, hauing traveled 5 lges. of fayre waye crossing the playne of Chelmenar. Here is good water. » #3214 Stodart, Robert; introduction and notes by Sir. E. Denison Ross, The Journal of Robert Stodart: Being an account of his experiences as a member of Sir Dodmore Cotton's Mission in Persia in 1628-29. Published from the unique manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library, Luzac and Co, 1935 ~ p. 76
SOURCE for Zarkan
« Depuis le pont fusdit, nous avions encore deux lieux, jusqu'à Zarkân. Actuellement ce chemin étoit fort bon; mais après une pluïe de longue durée il est très mau-vais, puisqu'alors toute la plaine eſt ſouvent couverte d'eau. [From the aforementioned bridge, we still had two leagues to go, to Zarkân. Currently, this road is very good; but after a prolonged rain, it is very bad, since then the whole plain is often covered with water.] » #3642 Niebuhr, Carsten, Voyage en Arabie et en d'autres pays circonvoisins, vol. 2, S.J. Baalde, Amsterdam, 1780 ~ vol. 2 p. 135
SOURCE for Zercon
« Passato il fiume, girammo un pezzo intorno alla costa di un monte che avevamo a man sinistra: ed ål fine, entrati in certi bassi valloni, ad ora di mezzogiorno arri-vammo alla villa Zercon che da Cehilminar non è più lontana di sei leghe, [After crossing the river, we went round for a while the side of a mountain which we had on our left hand: and at last, having entered some low valleys, at midday we arrived at the village of Zercon which is not more than six leagues from Cehilminar,] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 265
SOURCE for Zerghun
« Zerghun » in {map#1245 in #3226 Cornelis Janszoon Speelman Ed. A. Hotz, Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I. Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar perzië in 1651-1652, J. Müller, 1908 ~ fig. Route-kaart voor de reis van het gezantschap Cunaeus van Bender Abbas (Gamron) naar Isfahan (1652)}
SOURCE for Zergone
« 17th [February) At 11 arrived at Zergone, being 5 farsangs, good way; came over a large bridge, a small river runing under it; 3 farsangs more came over a great quantity of water and mud, had three or four mules stuck in it. » #3248 Bernard P. Scattergood, Ed. Temple, Carnac Rihard, The Scattergoods and the East India Company, A Collection of Mss., Indian Antiquary, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930 vol. LIX:pt DCCXXXVI-A:pp. 33-74 ~ p. 41
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SOURCE for Zerraghoon
« In little more than an hour, passing over a fine small plain covered with flocks and tents, we came to the large village of Zerraghoon, seated at the foot of a steep mass of rock, with thatched houses and sloping roofs. We halted at a caravansera here, for two hours, to repose, and set out again about noon after which we got into a rugged country of bare hills and uninterest-ing aspect. » #1185 Buckingham, J. S., Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore, Henry Colburn: Gregg International Publishers Limited, London: London, 1829:1971, ~ p. 286
SOURCE for Zurgoon

R17-130 Kutal-i-Zarghun
R17-130 Kutal-i-Zarghun : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-ye Ab Barik , Gardaneh-ye Ab-e Barik , Gardaneh-ye Zarqan , Kotal-e Zarqun , Kutal-i-Zargan , Kutal-i-Zarqan , گردنه آب باریک ,
VARIANT names: Kutal-i-Zargan ,
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R17-132 Shiraz
R17-132 Shiraz : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chimaz , Chiraz , Schiras , Shiraz , Siraz , شیراز ,
VARIANT names: Chiras , Chiraz , Chyraz , Giras , Giraz , Schiras , Sciras , Sciraz , Scyras , Sehiras , Shira-its-tsi-ish , Shirass , Shiraz , Siras , Siràs or Xiràs or Sciraz , Širaz , Sjiraas , Sjiraas , Stadt Siraes , Syras , Xiras , Xiraz , Zjie-raes ,
SOURCE for Chiras
« dinge alle de omleggende vlekken hooren, en daarvan hij in Chiras aan den gouverneur reekeningh doen moet, [let all the destroyers hear the things, and he must give an account of them to the governor in Chiras,] » #3226 Cornelis Janszoon Speelman Ed. A. Hotz, Journaal der reis van den gezant der O.I. Compagnie Joan Cunaeus naar perzië in 1651-1652, J. Müller, 1908 ~ p. 74
« Le 17, j'arrivai à Chiras, foible et défait, [On the 17th, I arrived in Chiras, weak and defeated,] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 9 p. 90
« Je n'ai point voulu marquer par le compas la route que je tenois , jour par jour, d'Ispalian à Chiras, car c'est presque la même chose chaque jour ; [I did not want to mark with the compass the route I took, day by day, from Ispalian to Chiras, because it is almost the same thing every day;] » #3213 Sir John Chardin, ed. Louis Langlès, Voyages du Chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l’Orient, Nouvelle édition, Le Normant, Imprimeur-Libraire, Paris, 1811 ~ vol. 8 p. 241
SOURCE for Chiraz
« ITINÉRAIRE DE CHIRAZ A SIRAF. De Chiraz à Kafra كفرة village 15 milles.?? » #3001 Al-Idrisi, P. Amedee Jaubert, Geographie d'Edrisi, Bertrand, Paris, 1836 ~ vol. 1 p. 400
SOURCE for Chyraz
« Chyraz » in {map#1255 Carte de la Perse, de la Turquie d'Asie et d'une partie de la Tartarie Indépendante / dressée par P. Lapie... ; gravée par Blondeau..., , 1810, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE C-10435}
« Chyraz » in {map#1253 Carte de la Perse, de la Turquie d'Asie et d'une partie de la Tartarie Indépendante / Dressée par P. Lapie, ... pour les Voyages de Chardin ; Gravée par Blondeau, ..., , 1810, }
« Arrivé à la porte de Chyraz, un individu préposé à je ne sais quoi se jeta sur Alawerdi et le secoua avec violence; on lui demanda 2 krowns, je ne sais à quel titre. Alawerdi résista, mais le préposé s'empara du fusil qu'il portait en bandoulière. Je le laissai faire, bien persuadé que j'en obtiendrais raison. Je fus d'abord à la douane où je déposai mes effets qui furent culbutés,, Dieu sait comme! et me rendis ensuite chez le nabab où je retrouvai mon logement. [Arriving at the gate of Chyraz, an individual in charge of I don't know what threw himself on Alawerdi and shook him violently; he was asked for 2 krowns, I don't know for what reason. Alawerdi resisted, but the attendant grabbed the rifle he was carrying across his shoulder. I let him do it, fully convinced that I would get his way. I first went to customs where I deposited my belongings which were overturned, God knows how! and then went to the nawab where I found my accommodation.] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 603
SOURCE for Giras
« GIRAS, cidade de - Shiraz, em 29° 38' lat. N. e 52° 31' long. E., na Pérsia. [P. Fernão Guerreiro - Relações Anais]. [GIRAS, city of - Shiraz, in 29° 38' lat. N. and 52° 31' long. E., in Persia. [P. Fernão Guerreiro - Annals].] » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953, ~ vol. D-N p. 85
SOURCE for Giraz
« From there they will go to the city of Vargim, and from there to the city of Giraz » #2516 Afonso de Albuquerque, ed.Raymundo Antonio de Bulhão Pato, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, Cartas de Affonso de Albuquerque, seguidas de documentos que as elucidam, Academia Real Das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1884, 1898 ~ vol. 2 p. 249
SOURCE for Schiras
« Le seizième de mars à huit heures du matin, je partis de Schiras, et après six heures de marche dans la plaine, qui cesse d'être fertile à une lieue de la ville, [On the sixteenth of March at eight o'clock in the morning, I left Schiras, and after six hours of walking in the plain, which ceases to be fertile a league from the town,] » #3144 Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Pascal Pia, Voyages en Perse et description de ce royaume par Jean-Babtiste Tavernier Marchand Francais, E´d. du Carrefour, Paris, 1930 ~ p. 310
« J'arrivay à Schiras ſur les fix heures du ſoir ; [I arrived at Shiras around six o'clock in the evening;] » #3632 Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Ecuyer Baron d'Aubonne, qu'il a fait en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes,, Chez Gervais Clouzier et Claude Barbin, 1676 ~ p. 656
« La Ville de Schiras, où nous arrivames enfin le 4 de Mars, n'eſt qu'à 1 mille de Tſchinar Raddar vers l'Eſt. Nous employames donc dixhuit jours, pour faire le Voyage d'Abuſchäbhr à Schiras, au lieu que fans cela, quelqu'un peut facilement faire ce Voyage en fix jours. La cauſe que nous étions fi longtems en chemin, n'étoit pas ſeulement le mauvais tems et le détour par Kormudſch, mais que la plus part des Marchandises de notre Kaffle, n'étoient chargées que fur des mauvais Anes, qui ne pouvoient faire que de petites journées. [The city of Shiras, where we finally arrived on March 4th, is only one mile east of Tſchinar Raddar.
It therefore took us eighteen days to make the journey from Abuſschäbhr to Shiras, whereas someone could easily make this journey in ten days. The reason we were so long on the road was not only the bad weather and the detour via Kormudſsh, but also that most of the goods in our wagon were loaded only onto poor donkeys, which could only travel for short periods.] » #3642 Niebuhr, Carsten, Voyage en Arabie et en d'autres pays circonvoisins, vol. 2, S.J. Baalde, Amsterdam, 1780 ~ vol. 2 p. 91
SOURCE for Sciras
« . Egli, mentre facemmo dimora a Sciras, non volle che noi ſpendeſsimo, per non offender le leggi dell'oſpitalità; [While we were staying in Sciras, he did not want us to spend money so as not to offend the laws of hospitality; ] » #3239 Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, Giro del mondo, del dottor D. Gio. Francesco Gemelli Careri.., stamp. di G. Roselli, Napoli, 1699 ~ pt. 2 p.263
SOURCE for Sciraz
« Fatta poi notte, di nuovo ci rimettemmo alla via; e il mercoledi, ventidue di giugno, camminate pian piano e molto adagio le due o tre sole leghe che restavano infin alla città di Sciraz, non prima dell'alba ci arrivamnto. [Then when night fell, we set off again; and on Wednesday, the twenty-second of June, you walked slowly and very slowly the only two or three leagues that remained until the city of Sciraz, arriving there not before dawn.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 362
« A due o tre ore di notte facemmo di nuovo levata, e dopo aver camminato tutto il resto della notte, il sabbato, sedici di ottobre, fatte le sci altre leghe che sole restavano a giorno chiaro, levato già il sole, arrivammo ai giardini di Sciraz, la qual città è situata pur in un bel piano circondato quasi d'ogn'intorno da monti, [At two or three o'clock in the morning we rose again, and after having walked all the rest of the night, on Saturday, the sixteenth of October, having skied the other leagues that were left in the light of day, the sun having already risen, we arrived at the gardens of Sciraz, which city is situated on a beautiful plain surrounded almost on all sides by mountains,] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 265
SOURCE for Scyras
« Het Landt roudtom Scyras is seer buchtbaar; maar boven al in Wijngaarden/die den Wijn voastrengen / welke dosz geheel Perfien, en selfs daar bupten / voor den besten van de ge heele Werelt gehouden. werdt / zijnde noch geuriger/ krachti ger/en forter als de Canarie-Sck. [The Land of Scyras is very famous; but above all in Vineyards / that supply the Wine / which are entirely Perfian, and even there / held for the best in the entire World. was / being neither more fragrant / more powerful / and stronger than the Canarie-Sck.] » #3243 Jan Janszoon Struys, Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige Reysen, Meurs, 1677 ~ p. 354
SOURCE for Sehiras
« Having view'd these Antiquities, which with those of Derbent, were all we met with in our Travels, I prosecuted my jour|ney the 28. of Ianuary, and got that day ten Leagues, to the City of Sehiras. » #3669 Adam Olearius, Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo, John Davies, The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, J. Starkey and T. Basset, 1669 ~ Mandelslo pt. 2 p. 2
SOURCE for Shira-its-tsi-ish
see source « Syras »
SOURCE for Shirass
« Dined here and went away for Shirass, being 5 farsangs, bad way up hills and down ; about the middle of the way in a fine plain is a good caravensaroy. Arrjved at Shirass at 8 at night. 21st [February], being Sunday. Went away for Bobbahodge. 9 farsangs good way . » #3248 Bernard P. Scattergood, Ed. Temple, Carnac Rihard, The Scattergoods and the East India Company, A Collection of Mss., Indian Antiquary, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930 vol. LIX:pt DCCXXXVI-A:pp. 33-74 ~ p. 41
SOURCE for Shiraz
« 24th February, Khan-i-Zanyan, 3 farsakhs ; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 25th February, Shiraz, 8 farsakhs ; 5.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Next morning early, we saddled our horses for Shiraz. We had thirty-two miles to march, and the road, winding among bare mountain-tops, proved less interesting than any stage since Burazjan. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ p. 45
« next night pitching a farfangh ſhort of Shiraz; where we expected a ceremonious entrance » #1608 Herbert, Thomas, Sir, Some Yeares Travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the Author., Printed by R. Bip. for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, London, 1638, ~ p. 132
« Hastening on towards Shiráz, I met a line inspector on tour, Mr Jefferies, who informed the that there was a riot taking place in the capital of Fárs. Accordingly, with very brief visits to the stupendous monuments of Persepolis, which I fortunately was able to examine carefully five years later, marched rapidly on, and being warned to avoid the town, proceeded to the beautiful Telegraph Garden, where I was most hospitably received by Dr Scully, the entertainer of almost every European traveller in Persia. » #1631 Sykes, Major P. Molesworth, Ten thousand miles in Persia or eight years in Iran, John Murray, London, 1902, ~ p. 80-81
« and thence in 5 leagues to the city of Shiraz. Total: from Yazdi-khwāst to Shiraz 44 leagues, » #1764 ed. Le Strange, G., The geographical part of the Nuzhat-al-qulub composed by Hamd-Alla¯h Mustawfi¯ of Qazwi¯n in 740 (1340), E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1919 ~ p. 176
« Further on, we passed the fine tomb of Shah Ameer Hamza, son of the Imaum Moosa; and crossing a bridge over the dry bed of a river, we entered Shiraz before dark. » #1185 Buckingham, J. S., Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore, Henry Colburn: Gregg International Publishers Limited, London: London, 1829:1971, ~ p. 287
« Although the city is the capital of the historic province of Fars and by right of inheritance the successor to the glory of Persepolis, the claim which Shiraz can make to eminence by reason of antiquity is not comparable with that of either Hamadan or Rei in Media of old. The general location of the city, it is true, is probably an ancient one, as shown by the vestiges of Achsemenian and Sasanian ruins in the vicinity, » #3178 Jackson, A. V. Williams, Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, The Macmillan Company, London, 1906 ~ p. 324
SOURCE for Siras
« The 24th daye about 12 a clok att night we did sett out of the citie of Siras, comonly called by the inhabitans Shiras, and traveling over theplayne, » #3214 Stodart, Robert; introduction and notes by Sir. E. Denison Ross, The Journal of Robert Stodart: Being an account of his experiences as a member of Sir Dodmore Cotton's Mission in Persia in 1628-29. Published from the unique manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library, Luzac and Co, London, 1935 ~ p.78
« In our Stay here we had Opportunity to observe Siras, not only by Fame, but indeed to be, second to none, except the Royal City, in the whole Empire: » #1591 Fryer, John M. D., A New Account of East-India and Persia in eight letters being nine years travel (Edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke), Hakluyt Society:Kraus Reprint, 1909:1967, 3 vols. ~ vol. 2 p. 211
« Siras (Shirāz) for each carga half a mahmudi as in Lār » #3297 John Emerson, Rahdars and Their Tolls in Safavid and Afsharid Iran, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1987 vol. 30:no. 3:pp. 318-327 ~ p. 321
SOURCE for Siràs or Xiràs or Sciraz
« fn. 30. Bembo gives three spellings for Shiraz: "Siràs or Xiràs or Sciraz." Persepolis is 80 km north of Shiraz. The plain to which Bembo refers is Marv Dasht, and he gives the name "Mircascun" to the town of Zargan. » #3299 trans. Clara Bargellini ed. Anthony Welch Ambrosio Bembo, The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2007 ~ p. 298
SOURCE for Širaz
« Širāz VI C4
Id Iran
Métropole (misr) de la province du Fāris et circonscription
IV 391 » #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~ p. 58
SOURCE for Sjiraas
« Den 11. dito na 2 mylen, aan de voor aan in Sjiraas gelegene Tsaarbag, daar van velen verwelkomt wierd. [The 11th ditto after 2 miles, at the front of Tsarbag located in Shiraas, where many were welcomed.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 285
« Den 7. dito vertrokken wy van Sjiraas, hadden een goeden weg, en rondom ons veel dorpen. [On the 7th we left Shiraas, had a good road, and many villages around us.] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ bk. 5 p. 263
« Den 6. dito wierd zyn. Ed: door eenige Armeniers bezogt, door hen met eenige tafel-vrugten beichonken, en 's namiddags door deneerſten ſchryver des Viziers verzogt, om op te zitten, weshalven zyn ed: na Sjiraas vertrok, [On the 6th his Ed: was visited by some Armenians, by whom he was refreshed with some table fruits, and in the afternoon he was requested by the chief scribe of the Vizier to sit on, wherefore his Ed: departed after Sjiraas,] » #2655 Francois Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryvinge der Moluccos ...,, Joannes van Braam, 1726, ~ vol. 5 p. 274
SOURCE for Stadt Siraes
« 7 Nov 1645 » #3230 Dagh Register gehouden bij den oppercoopman Leonard Winninx ‘tsindert den 6 Julij anno 1645 dat uijt Gamron naer Spahan vertreckt, tot den 24e November, daeraen volgende, als wanneer in gemelte Gamron wederom gearriveert is." inventory number 1152 catalogue reference number 1.04.02, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, ~ f. 384
SOURCE for Syras
« Persia alla via di levante (A levante, ove prima si trova la città de Syras la quale) li..20., ha populo inumerabile, mercadanti assaissimi, perchè tutti i mercadanti che vengono da le parte di sopra, cioè da Ere, Sanmarcahanthe (299) e da li in suso (volendo vegnir per la via de la Persia) passano per Syras, (300) fn. 299. Sanmarcahanth Samarcanda, la principale città della Transoxiana. RUY GONZALES DE CLAVIJO, che Enrico III di Castiglia aveva inviato come ambasciatore a Timur nel 1405, ci ha lasciato una descrizione di Samarcanda quale era ai suoi tempi; cfr. la sua opera Embassy to Tamerlane, cit., pp. 285-290. (Lo.) fn. 300. Syras Shiraz. Contrariamente a quanto comunemente si crede, Shiraz è una città molto antica. Poco dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, G. Cameron scopri a Persepoli alcune tavolette in lingua elamita, recanti dettagli sulle paghe degli operai ivi impegnati nella costruzione del palazzo di Dario; su una di tali tavolette compare il nome di Shiraz, sotto la forma Shira-its-tsi-ish. Si ha così la prova che la città esisteva già nel periodo degli Achemenidi. In quel tempo, tuttavia, essa era messa in ombra da Persepoli. Sotto i Sasanidi Shiraz fu capitale dell'Ardashir Khurreh, uno dei cin- que distretti in cui era divisa la provincia del Färs. ... [Persia on the eastern road (To the east, where first is the city of Syras which) li..20., has an innumerable population, very many merchants, because all the merchants who come from the upper parts, that is from Ere, Sanmarcahanthe (299) and from there upwards (wanting to come by the road to Persia) pass through Syras, (300) fn. 299. Sanmarcahanth Samarkand, the principal city of Transoxiana. RUY GONZALES DE CLAVIJO, whom Henry III of Castile had sent as ambassador to Timur in 1405, has left us a description of Samarkand as it was in his time; cf. his work Embassy to Tamerlane, cit., pp. 285-290. (Lo.) fn. 300. Syras Shiraz. Contrary to popular belief, Shiraz is a very ancient city. Shortly after the Second World War, G. Cameron discovered in Persepolis some tablets in the Elamite language, containing details of the wages of the workers employed there in the construction of the palace of Darius; on one of these tablets the name of Shiraz appears, in the form Shira-its-tsi-ish. This is evidence that the city already existed in the period of the Achaemenids. At that time, however, it was overshadowed by Persepolis. Under the Sassanids Shiraz was the capital of Ardashir Khurreh, one of the five districts into which the province of Färs was divided. ...] » #3310 Lockhart,L. Morozzo Della Rocca,R. Tiepolo,M.F., I viaggi in Persia degli ambasciatori veneti Barbaro e Contarini, Ist. Poligrafico dello Stato, 1973 ~ p. 142
SOURCE for Xiras
« A 24, vispera de Sancta Catalina martir, despues de auer enuiado delante muy de mañana el Enbaxador su rrecamara y todas las demas cargas, le vinieron á dar auiso como le querian ya salir á reçibir de Xiras, [On the 24th, the eve of Sancta Catalina martyr, after the Enbaxador had sent his chamber and all the other loads in front of him very early in the morning, they came to inform him how they wanted him and to leave to receive Xiras,] » #3245 García de Silva y Figueroa, Manuel Serrano y Sanz, Comentarios De D. Garcia De Silva Y Figueroa De La Embajada Que De Parte Del Rey De España Don Felipe III Hizo Al Rey Xa Abas De Persia, La Spciedad de Bibliofilos Espanoles, Madrid, 1905 ~ vol. 1 p. 332
« A 5 de Abril, en la tarde, salio el Enbaxador de Xiras, dexando algunos criados suyos con mas de çiento y çinquenta cargas de la pimienta que se lleuaua al rey de Persia, [On April 5th, in the afternoon, the Ambassador of Xiras left, leaving some of his servants with more than one hundred and fifty loads of pepper that he was taking to the King of Persia.] » #3245 García de Silva y Figueroa, Manuel Serrano y Sanz, Comentarios De D. Garcia De Silva Y Figueroa De La Embajada Que De Parte Del Rey De España Don Felipe III Hizo Al Rey Xa Abas De Persia, La Spciedad de Bibliofilos Espanoles, Madrid, 1905 ~ vol. 1 p. 367
SOURCE for Xiraz
« XIRAZ, cidade de - Shiraz, em 29° 38' lat. N. e 52° 31' long. E., na Pérsia. [João de Barros-Da Asia). [XIRAZ, city of - Shiraz, in 29° 38' lat. N. and 52° 31' long. E., in Persia. [João de Barros-From Asia).] » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953, ~ vol. O-Z p. 287
SOURCE for Zjie-raes
« arriv?mes à minuit au Caravanserai de Babbahad-jie, à 5. lieuës de Zjie-raes. [and arrived at midnight at the Caravanserai of Babbahad-jie, 5 leagues from Zjie-raes.] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ p. 312

R17-113 Bureh
R17-113 Bureh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: SPNG UFI: -3194039 coordinate: lat 29.9707 long 54.0963
NIMA/GNS names: Boruyeh , Bowrad Khvansar , Bowru Khvansar , Bureh , Burru'iyeh , Buru , برويه , بورد خوانسار , بورروئیه , بورو خوانسار ,
VARIANT names: Bureh ,
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