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R22path Preece

R22-032c Kardir
R22-032c Kardir : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: -3069708 coordinate: lat 26.444124 long 57.182317
NIMA/GNS names: Kardar , كردر ,
VARIANT names: Kardar , Kardir ,
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SOURCE for Kardir
« 11-50 came to the village of Kardir and stoppedalongside to breakfast. » #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. 31

R22-033 Gez river
R22-033 Gez river : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: STM UFI: -3063862 coordinate: lat 26.441337 long 57.056828
NIMA/GNS names: Gas , Gaz , Gaz River , Rud-e Gaz , Rudkhaneh-ye Gaz , رودخانه گز ,
VARIANT names: Gez river , Rud-e Gaz ,
SOURCE for Gez river
« 1-5 started again, and in an hour came tothe Gez river, a deep, swift-flowing stream, about 60 yards across-and running about 6 miles an hour. Tried it and found that itwould be impossible for laden mules to cross, so perforce had tocamp.I was told by some people who were about, that they have been stuck here for six days waiting for it to fall sufficiently to enable them to cross; rain, however, has fallen daily and prevented them. The water is now evidently decreasing, and we may be able to cross to-morrow, supposing no heavy rains fall during the night. Dis- tance 14 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. 31
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R22-034 Gez : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: -3063986 coordinate: lat 26.414828 long 57.190673
NIMA/GNS names: Gaz , Gaz Taheri , Gaz-e Taheri , Gaz-e Taheri , گز , گز طاهری ,
VARIANT names: Gaz , Gez ,
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« It is nearly an unmitigated waste between Murcheh Khurt and Gez, destitute even of tufts of wormwood; but the latter part of the march is through a stoneless alluvial desert of dry friable soil, soft springy galloping ground which water would turn into a paradise of fertility; and water there has once been, for not far from the road are the remains of some kanaats. ... Gez consists of this post-house and a decaying caravanserai. From the roof as I write I watch the grooming of a whole row of chapar horses. » #3644 Bishop, Isabella L., Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, John Murray, London, 1891 ~ vol. 1 pp. 240-1

R22-034a Namordi
R22-034a Namordi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: -3076436 coordinate: lat 26.365849 long 57.221907
NIMA/GNS names: Gunmordi , Namordi , گونمردی , نمردی ,
VARIANT names: Namordi ,
SOURCE for Namordi
« At 7-25 passed the village of ?Gawan on the left and Namordi on the right, about 2 miles off. » #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. 32

R22-034b Zerabad
R22-034b Zerabad : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Zarabad , Zaradad , زر آباد ,
VARIANT names: Zarabad , Zerabad ,
SOURCE for Zarabad
SOURCE for Zerabad
« 9-25 A.M. crossed a river, not much water in it, but the banks high?? ?? and steep, about 160 yards across. At 8-53 passed the village of?? Zerabad on the left: 9-45 passed through the village of Sakui, and 10-45 arrived at Karut. Distance 16 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. 32

R22-034c Sakui
R22-034c Sakui : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Sikooh , Siku'i , سيكوئی ,
VARIANT names: Sakui , Siku'i ,
SOURCE for Sakui
« 9-45 passed through the village of Sakui, and 10-45 arrived at Karut. Distance 16 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. 32
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R22-035 Karat
R22-035 Karat : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FRM UFI: -3069730 coordinate: lat 26.2285 long 57.2303
NIMA/GNS names: Karai , Kareh'i , Kare'i , Kar'i , Karya , Keray , Nakhlestan-e Kari , كرئی , نخلستان کری ,
VARIANT names: Karai , Karat ,
SOURCE for Karai
SOURCE for Karat
« 9-45 passed through the village of Sakui, and 10-45 arrived at Karut. Distance 16 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. 32

R22-035a Gawan
R22-035a Gawan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Gavan , Gavan Mach , Gavan Moch , Gavan-e Bala , Gevan , Gevan Mach , گوان بالا ,
VARIANT names: Gavan , Gawan ,
SOURCE for Gavan
SOURCE for Gawan
« 9-5 passed the village of Gawán » #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. 33

R22-035b Mukhjangán
R22-035b Mukhjangán : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Mogh Changan , Mogh Jangan , مغ جنگان , مغ چنگان ,
VARIANT names: Mogh Jangan , Mukhjangan ,
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SOURCE for Mukhjangan
« and at 9-35 came to the village of Mukhjangán, where we breakfasted.Here we were interviewed by a Biluch chief, a fine-looking fellow, got up in very gorgeous attire, covered with arms of all sorts, including the ever present hide shield; he commenced to talk very big, but after a time quieted down and ended by begging for krans and powder. » #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. 33

R22-036 Gatan
R22-036 Gatan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Bongard , Gatan , Gattan-e `Olya , Gattan-e Bala , Gattan-e Nabi , بنگرد , گتان , گتان بالا , گتان عليا , گتان نابی ,
VARIANT names: Gatan ,
SOURCE for Gatan
« 11-26 A.M. off again. Weather got very hot and close. Plain sandy, crossed another stream with very deep sides, about 18 yards across. This would also be a bad spot in heavy rains. Followed the plain until we arrived at Gatán at 1-5 P.M. Distance 20½ 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. 33

R22-036a Kuh Mubarek
R22-036a Kuh Mubarek : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: HLL UFI: -3075245 coordinate: lat 25.8448 long 57.3057
NIMA/GNS names: Kuh-e Mobarak , Kuh-i-Mubarak , كوه مبارك ,
VARIANT names: Bombareca , Bombarque rock , C. Bombaric , Cap Gombarat , Cohomo Barque/Comobarque , Koh-i-Mubarak , Kuh Mubarek , Ra's al-Kuh , Semiramis ,
SOURCE for Bombareca
« a great many pieces of white Rock that rife in various figures; one would take it to be a City; and to the South of that imaginary Town, upon the fame Hill, there is a piece of whiteish Rock broken off from the reft, which looks like a Tower or Pillar upon a high Pedeſtal; from thence it is but a League to Bombareca. Half an hour after five we were off of Bombareca, which is only a very high fquare, white Rock; and flat on the top; it feems to be very fteep, and at a diftance one would take it for a fquare Fort: this Rock is very near the Land, and it is dangerous to approach it, becauſe it is furrounded with a Bank of Sand. » #1574 Thévenot, Jean de, The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot 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 ~ pt. 2 p. 189« a great many pieces of white Rock that rife in various figures; one would take it to be a City; and to the South of that imaginary Town, upon the fame Hill, there is a piece of whiteish Rock broken off from the reft, which looks like a Tower or Pillar upon a high Pedeſtal; from thence it is but a League to Bombareca. Half an hour after five we were off of Bombareca, which is only a very high fquare, white Rock; and flat on the top; it feems to be very fteep, and at a diftance one would take it for a fquare Fort: this Rock is very near the Land, and it is dangerous to approach it, becauſe it is furrounded with a Bank of Sand. » #1574 Thévenot, Jean de, The travels of Monsieur de Thevenot 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 ~ pt. 2 p. 189
« Bombareca (33 B, 75 E): Küh-e Mobarek, Ra's al Küh » #1939 Couto, Dejanirah, Bacqué-Grammont, Jean-Louis, and Taleghani, Mahmoud (eds.), Atlas historique du golfe Persique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 ~ index p. 145
« a bombareca » in {map#510 Chart of the western Indian Ocean, Sebastiao Lopes, 1565, Manuscript portolan atlas of the world, fol. 18r} see PMC vol. 4 EST 400 and AHduGP map 33
SOURCE for Bombarque rock
« Bombarque rock »{map#997 [Carte anglaise du golfe Persique] / Made by John Thornton at the Signe of the Platt in the Minories, John Thornton, 1699, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, CPL GE SH 18E PF 209 DIV 2 P 5 RES} see AHduGP map 87
« Bombarque rock (87 E): Kūh-e Mobārek, Ra's al Küh » #1939 Couto, Dejanirah, Bacqué-Grammont, Jean-Louis, and Taleghani, Mahmoud (eds.), Atlas historique du golfe Persique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 ~ index p. 145
SOURCE for C. Bombaric
« C. Bombaric » in {map#362 Carte du Golfe Persique depuis Bassora jusqu'au Cap Rasalgate, Guillaume Nicolas Delahaye D'apres De Mannevillette, 1775, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek (Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis, Portf. 175, n° 108)} see AHduGP map 57
« Bombaric, C. (57 B): Küh-e Mobārek, Ra's al Küh » #1939 Couto, Dejanirah, Bacqué-Grammont, Jean-Louis, and Taleghani, Mahmoud (eds.), Atlas historique du golfe Persique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 ~ index p. 145
SOURCE for Cap Gombarat
« Cap Gombarat » in {map#980 Plan particulier du golfe de Perse, depuis les caps de Rosalgatte et de Jasque, jusqu'à Bassora / [d'Après de Mannevillette] ; Dheulland sculp, Anonyme, Guillaume Dheulland, Graveur, 1700-1799, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE DD-2987 (6746)} see AHduGP map 74
SOURCE for Cohomo Barque/Comobarque
« Kūh-i Mubarak et Kuhistak desservaient la côte du Biyābān (178).
fn. 178 Küh-i Mubarak, en avant de l'éminence du même nom, amer familier aux marins (Persian Gulf Pilot, éd. 1864, p. 143), à l'extrémité méridionale du Biyaban. C'est le Cohomo Barque/Comobarque de Duarte Barbosa, etc.; FG, VIII, p. 339. Kuhistak, Gostaquem/Goxtaque chez Barbosa, Kostek chez Teixeira (II, p. 3, 36), etc.; FG, VIII, p. 338. [Kūh-i Mubarak and Kuhistak served the Biyābān coast (178).
fn. 178 Küh-i Mubarak, in front of the eminence of the same name, bitter familiar to sailors (Persian Gulf Pilot, ed. 1864, p. 143), at the southern end of the Biyaban. It is the Cohomo Barque/Comobarque of Duarte Barbosa, etc.; FG, VIII, p. 339. Kuhistak, Gostaquem/Goxtaque at Barbosa, Kostek at Teixeira (II, p. 3, 36), etc.; FG, VIII, p. 338.] » #898 Aubin, Jean, Le royaume d'Ormuz au début du XVIe siècle, Mare Luso-Indicum, Geneva, 1973 ~ p. 108
SOURCE for Koh-i-Mubarak
« Kuh-i-Mubarak » in {map#593 Hormuz from the West in Persian Gulf chart, Stiffe, A. W., 1860, }
SOURCE for Kuh Mubarek
« The plain near to the hills on the left was dotted with scrub and proved better going. At 9-5 came to the village of Kuh ?Mubarek in among some small hills, and at 9-45 halted to break-?? fast. Kuh Mubarek bearing west-north-west. » #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. 34
SOURCE for Ra's al-Kuh
« or really on the northern shore of the Straits, the Kuh-i Mubarak, the Ra's al-Kuh of modem maps, where traveling westward, the Makran coastline turns northward opposite the Musandam
peninsula into the actual Straits of Hormuz). » #760 Bosworth C. Edmund, Decorative Printed Maps of the 15th to 18th Centuries, Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, Michigan, 1997 (winter/spring) ~ p. 80
SOURCE for Semiramis
« § 35. A round and high mountain called Semiramis.
Fabricius, following Sprenger and Ritter, identifies this with Koh-i-mubarak, “Mountain of the Blest” (25º 50’ N., 57º 19’ E. ), which, while not high, being only about 600 feet, is of the shape here described and directly on the strait.
Fabricius (p. 146) suggests that the name Semiramis is probably the Arabic Shamarîda “held precious. » #487 Schoff, Wilfred H. (trans.), The Periplus of the Erythraen Sea, Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a merchant of the first century, Munshiram Manohardal Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 1995, p. 147
« Nearchus [n. Not Nearchus, but Marcian - (Geogr. Minores, p. 21.) It is not named by Nearchus - (Arrian, Ind., p. 346. Ed. Gronov.) - E.] named this the Round Mount of Semiramis; and after leaving it came to a coast wholly waste, whence he directed his course at a somewhat greater distance from the shore, and more northerly than before. » #253 Kempthorne, Lieut. G.B., Notes on a Survey along the Eastern Shores of the Persian Gulf in 1828, Royal Geographical Society, 1835, p. 272

R22-037 Gangan
R22-037 Gangan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Gangan , Gankan , Kangan , كنگان , گنكان , گنگان ,
VARIANT names: Gangan ,
SOURCE for Gangan
« 11-15 passed a small riverbed with deep steep sides. At 12-45 came to another of the same description, and at 1-15 ?.?. arrived at the village of the Gangán, where we camped. It was but a bad spot, but going on in such weather was not to be thought of. Distance 20 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. 34

R22-038 Jashk village
R22-038 Jashk village : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Jask-e Kohneh , Juna , Old Jask , الد جاسك , جاسك كهنه ,
VARIANT names: Jashk village , Jask-e Kohneh ,
SOURCE for Jashk village
« March 15th. Left at 5-35 A.M. The road over the same sandy plain, with but little scrub about, bore for a hill east-north-east, which we reached in an hour, went round it and carried on in the same direction passing some date groves, and through a more wooded country, chiefly gez trees. At 7-12 passed a river called ? Taber Kand, about 100 yards across. We came this way, as we?? were told that this river on the direct road would be very difficult to cross. It would stop one, even here I imagine, after a conti- nuance of wet weather. Bearing now east-south-east, at 8-25 came to a small riverbed with steep sides, another nasty spot in the rains. Ground all along sandy, with slight salt incrustation. Passed several fine date groves, and at 9-45 camped under one for breakfast. 11-15 off again. Country as before for nearly 8 miles, when we came to the village of Jashk. Distance 23 miles. From the sandhills close by the telegraph buildings are visible, about 10 miles away. » #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. 34
SOURCE for Jask-e Kohneh

R22-039 Jaskh telegraph office
R22-039 Jaskh telegraph office : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 25.640718 long 57.767237 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Jaskh telegraph office ,
SOURCE for Jaskh telegraph office
« 19th March. Marched into Jaskh Telegraph Office, the first mile across the plain; then through and over some sandhills on to a masheelah for about 3 miles, then across the peninsula to the office. Distance 8 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. 35

R22-000 Shiraz
R22-000 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

R22-001 Jafferábád
R22-001 Jafferábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: 148080 coordinate: lat 29.52561149 long 52.58984366
NIMA/GNS names: Ja`farabad , Ja`farabad-e Now , جعفر آباد نو ,
VARIANT names: Ja`farabad , Jafirabad ,
SOURCE for Ja`farabad
« Ja`farabad » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}
SOURCE for Jafirabad
« Jafirabad, a village of 100 houses in the midst of
arable land, has one of those camping-grounds of smooth
green sward at once so tempting and so risky, and we all
got rheumatism in the moist chilliness of the night. The
mercury is still falling slowly and steadily, and the sun
is only really hot between ten and four. Jafirabad is a
prosperous village, owned, as many in this region are, the Governor of Tabriz, who is merciful as to tribute. » #3644 Bishop, Isabella L., Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, John Murray, London, 1891 ~ vol. 2 p. 184

R22-001a Pul-i-Fassa
R22-001a Pul-i-Fassa : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 29.483534 long 52.63715 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Pasa bridge , Polfaffa , Polifassa bridge , Polifaſa bridge , Polifazza , pont de huit arches , Pool-i-Fassa , Pul-i-Fasa , Pul-i-Fassa , Pully-pot-ʃhaw , Pylli Pessa ,
SOURCE for Pasa bridge
« A tres leguas de camino se llegó al rio de Pasa, ... La puente que en este rio auia, que tiene elnonbre que el mesmo rio, era muy larga y por dondeapenas podria pasar un carro; [After three leagues of travel, we reached the Pasa River,... The bridge that stood on this river, which has the name of the river itself, was very long and over which a car could barely pass;] » #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. 330
SOURCE for Polfaffa
« Nous partimes fur le foir,traverfämes une partie de la plaine,le pont de pierre de Polfaffa, en partie renverfé, fous lequel il n'y avoit point d'eau, à cauſe de la grande fechereffe [We left at dusk, and crossed part of the plain, and the stone bridge of Polfaffa, partly overturned, under which there was no water, because of the great flood. ] » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ p. 312
SOURCE for Polifassa bridge
« A quelque distance de la route est un village considérable ; alors le chemin devient beaucoup plus uni . Après trois heures de marche , nous traversons un pont de huit arches en pierre , sous lequel coule la rivière de Polifasså. Elle prend sa source dans les montagnes à droite , près du village de Pol- Perindji , à huit farsengs à l'O. S. O. de Chirâz , et va se perdre dans la vallée . [At some distance from the road is a considerable village; then the path becomes much smoother. After three hours of walking, we cross a bridge of eight stone arches, under which the Polifasså river flows. It takes its source in the mountains on the right, near the village of Pol-Perindji, eight farsengs to the W. S. W. of Chirâz, and will get lost in the 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 pp. 340-1
SOURCE for Polifaſa bridge
« Den 19. dito, na een weg van 4 mylen rydens, en het trekken over de brug Polifaſa, quam zyn Ed: aan de Karrawaanſera Baba Hhadji. [On the 19th, after riding four miles and crossing the bridge Polifaſa, his Ed arrived at the Karrawaanſera Baba Hhadji.] » #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 Polifazza
« Nous passons un pont sous lequel coule la rivière de Polifazza, et parcourons un chemin très-uni, [We pass a bridge under which flows the river Polifazza, and follow a very smooth path,] » #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. 68
SOURCE for pont de huit arches
[no place name given - description used for Route 81 stage 068. PBR]
« Nous rapprochant des collines, nous suivons un ruis- seau qui va se jeter dans la rivière de Polifazza. Nous traversons celle-ci sur un pont de huit arches, et sommes agréablement surpris par la vue de quelques champs bien cultivés. [Approaching the hills, we follow a stream that flows into the river Polifazza. We cross it on a bridge of eight arches, and are pleasantly surprised by the sight of some well-cultivated fields.] » #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. 466
SOURCE for Pool-i-Fassa
« At 10 miles, cross a sluggish, muddy river,flowing through a reedy swamp. It has an old stone bridge, called the"Pool-i-Fássá," with remains of causeway at either extremity. » #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. 735
SOURCE for Pul-i-Fasa
« Pul-i-Fasa » in {map#1204 in #3143 Whitcomb, Donald S., Before the Roses and Nightingales: Excavations at Quasr-i Abu Nasr, Old Shiraz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985 ~ fig. Map of the plain of Shiraz and distribution of place names on sealings found at Qasr-i Abu Nasr}
« The principal road to the southeast runs down the middle of the plain to Pul-i Fasa (the bridge of Fasa). This road, as suggestedby the name of the bridge, continues around the southern edge of Lake Maharlu to Fasa and Darabjird to the southeast. Another road leads south to Kavar and Firuzabad (Jur) and on to the coast at Siraf. The control points for roads entering the Shirazplain are thus at the Pul-i Fasa and at or near Shiraz itself. Qasr-i Abu Nasr might have been situated onan earlier version of the road running the length ofthe plain; it does not directly dominate major passes to the north (which are 4 to 6 kilometers away; cf.Upton 1973, 9). »#3143 Whitcomb, Donald S., Before the Roses and Nightingales: Excavations at Quasr-i Abu Nasr, Old Shiraz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985 ~ pp. 14-15
« Leaving Shiraz, the traveller rode via the villages of Deh Ameris and Hasanabad, at one German from the city and crossed the ten-arched Pul-i Fasa bridge over the Qara Bagh river. The bridge was in need of repair, and was linked on both sides by a causeway, (77) at the left of which a lake was situated.
fn. 77 Valentijn, vol. V. p. 284 (Polisasa); Speelman, p. 84; (Poulisesa) Thevenot, vol. II, p. 127. The eight or ten-arched bridge is the Pul-i Fasa. There was also a karavansaray built by a rich Shirazi widow; de Silva y Figueroa, pp. 104, 351. »
#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
SOURCE for Pul-i-Fassa
« Pul-i-Fassa » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}
SOURCE for Pully-pot-ʃhaw
« next day to Pully-pot-ʃhaw (1) (leaving Bobbaw-hodgee on our left hand) fn. 1 This place (like the two preceding ones) has not been identified. The name is evidently Pul-i-Padshah, the bridge of the Emperor'. Herbert's itinerary (see appendix) adds the name of another stage, viz. Emoom (not identified). Clearly the cavalcade did not keep strictly to the usual route. » #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 Pylli Pessa
« Zunächst nach S+O durch die Dörfer Deh Ameris, Haßanâbâd, Pylli Pessá.[First to the S+E through the villages of Deh Ameris, Haßanâbâd, Pylli Pessá] » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 111

R22-002 Maharlu
R22-002 Maharlu : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Maharin , Maharlu , مهارلو ,
VARIANT names: Giganli , Maharlu , Mally , Mohullu ,
SOURCE for Giganli
« Fatte fihalmente intorno a quattro leghe di viaggio, essendo ancor hotle, ci fermammo a riposare in un luogo che chiamano Giganli, dove a piè de' monti, presso un caravanserai rovinato che sta accanto ad un piccoló rivo di acqua corrente buona da bere, Irovammo alcune case di Turcomani [Having traveled about four leagues, being still hot, we stopped to rest in a place called Giganli, where at the foot of the mountains, near a ruined caravanserai which stands next to a small stream of running water good for drinking, we found some Turcomani houses] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 274
SOURCE for Maharlu
« 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 Mally
« En côtoyant ce lac , on a sur la droite un mont escarpé. La terre est inculte , mais remplie d'arbustes de buis . Elle nous parut bien cultivée aux environs de Mally, où nous arrivâmes à six heures et demie du soir . [As we skirt this lake, we see a steep mountain on the right. The land is uncultivated, but filled with boxwood shrubs. She seemed well cultivated around Mally, where we arrived at half-past six in the evening.] » #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. 341
SOURCE for Mohullu
« Flom Afahallu we proceede(l on a bearing of 120?, 155?, anKl lG5?; but sny watch having got out of order, I was unable to estimate distances exactly on this march » #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. 151

R22-001b Dobeneh
R22-001b Dobeneh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Do Baneh , Donbeh , Dowbaneh , Downbeh , Dunheh , دوبنه ,
VARIANT names: Do Baneh , Dobeneh ,
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SOURCE for Dobeneh
« but afterwards the plain opened out, the road following the line of the lake; about 8 miles from the village of Maharlu, passed a place which is known as Dobeneh; there is no habitation, but several disused wells and a couple of trees known as the bench, a class of wild pistachio. About 5 miles before reaching the village, passed through ground under cultivation which contin-ued up to the village. Just before entering it, there was a small stream of water, clear and sweet. This stream is used some little distance up in the hills to drive a mill. » #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 ~ pp. 1-2

R22-002a Posht-i-Par
R22-002a Posht-i-Par : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Posht Bar , Posht Par , Posht-e Par , پشت پر ,
VARIANT names: Posht Bar , Posht-i-Par ,
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« At 9-7 A.M., or after going 3 miles, passed a village under the hills to ??پشت پر the right about 2 miles off, called Posht-i-Par, consisting of about?? 20 houses. » #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. 2

R22-002b Bukat
R22-002b Bukat : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Bokat , بکت ,
VARIANT names: Bokat , Bukat ,
SOURCE for Bokat
SOURCE for Bukat
« Bukat » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}

R22-002c Khairábád
R22-002c Khairábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Khairabad , Kheyrabad , خیر آباد ,
VARIANT names: Khairabad , Kheyrabad ,
SOURCE for Khairabad
« Khairabad » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}
SOURCE for Kheyrabad
« Kheyrabad » in {map#1274 in #1253 Goldsmid, F. J., Journey from Bandar Abbas to Mash-Had by Sistan, with Some Account of the Last-Named Province, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1873 43:65-83 ~ fig. Journey from Bandar Abbas to Mash-had by Sistun}

R22-002d Kanao
R22-002d Kanao : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPL UFI: 150195 coordinate: lat 29.272205 long 53.082495
NIMA/GNS names: Konow , کنو ,
VARIANT names: Kanao , Kennu , Konow ,
SOURCE for Kanao
« Kanao » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}
« 3-11 P.M. passed the small village of Kanao. All about this portion of the road the supply of water is good; there are several kanáts of good water. » #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 Kennu
« we proceeded in a direction generally a little s. of E., imlne(liately passing Kennu, a village to our right, thence to Ketta Gumbez, another village; » #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
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R22-002e Huseinábád
R22-002e Huseinábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: FT UFI: 10394548 coordinate: lat 29.2645 long 53.1032
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh-ye Hoseynabad , قلعه حسین آباد ,
VARIANT names: Housenabad , Huseinabad , Qal`eh-ye Hoseynabad ,
SOURCE for Housenabad
« Housenabad » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}
SOURCE for Huseinabad
« 3-50 P.M. passed the village of Huseinábád. » #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 Qal`eh-ye Hoseynabad

R22-002f Katah Gumbáz
R22-002f Katah Gumbáz : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kateh Gonbad , کته گنبد ,
VARIANT names: Katah Gumbaz , Kateh Gonbad , Ketta Gumbez ,
SOURCE for Katah Gumbaz
« 4-25 P.M. Katah Gumbáz, a village of certain pretentions, was reached. Here also was good water. 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
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SOURCE for Ketta Gumbez
« we proceeded in a direction generally a little s. of E., imlne(liately passing Kennu, a village to our right, thence to Ketta Gumbez, another village; » #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

R22-003 Sarvistán
R22-003 Sarvistán : 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
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« 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
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R22-003a Bourg
R22-003a Bourg : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: none independent coordinate: lat 29.206647 long 53.317425 † basis (p)
VARIANT names: Burj-i-Chenar (lookout tower) ,
SOURCE for Burj-i-Chenar (lookout tower)
« Burj-i-Chenar (lookout tower) » 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}
« After going 4½ miles came to a deep gully, with a small stream of water at the bottom. After going another three-quarters of a mile, passed a second stream, and immediately entered some low hills, which the road passed through, and gradually ascending for some 2¾ miles we camped at a Bourgt [tower] on the side of the Kuh-i-Siah, another Bourg being on the top of the spur. » #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

R22-004 Meyan-Jangal caravanserai
R22-004 Meyan-Jangal caravanserai : place IRN (caravanserai)
NIMA/GNS feature: HLT UFI: 10400764 coordinate: lat 29.046199 long 53.533114
NIMA/GNS names: Barashlu , Karvansara-ye Barashlu , Karvansara-ye Shah `Abbasi , برشلو , کاروانسرای بارشلو , کاروانسرای شاه عباسی ,
VARIANT names: Borashloo carvanserai , caravanserai (Preece) , Karavanserail Baushla , Karvansara-ye Barashlu ,
SOURCE for Borashloo carvanserai
« Figure 1: distribution of Caravanserais in south Iran; 1- Madar Shah 2- Abbasi Gaz 3- Anoshirvan 4- Barsian 5- Mahyar 6- AminAbad 7- Izadkhast 8- Khankhoreh 9- Abalqasem 10- Saryazd 11- Zein-o-din 12- Bard-e Shiraz 13- Rostam 14- Bajgah 15- Shah Abasi 16- Mian Jangal 17- Borashloo 18- Jahrom 19- Safiqoli 20- Barmir » #3659 Morteza Khanipour, The Role of Caravanserais in Trade: Bard-e Shiraz and Rostam Caravanserais, Iran in International Scientific and Practical Conference Cultural Echoes On the Silk Road: Bridging Historical Legacies with Modern Tourism May 16-18, 2024, ~ p. 491
SOURCE for caravanserai (Preece)
« Caravanserai » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}
SOURCE for Karavanserail Baushla
« Abmessungen: Außenmaße 27,90 x 20,50 m, Hofabmes-sungen 15,80 x 9,10 m und 4,50 m maximale Gebäudehöhe (Abb. 175).Baumaterial: Bruchstein.Bauliche Besonderheiten und Zustand: Stark verfallen, Einzelräume als Viehpferch genutzt.Inschriften: keine bekannt.Datierung: Qadjarisch, 19. Jahrhundert. [Dimensions: External dimensions 27.90 x 20.50 m, courtyard dimensions 15.80 x 9.10 m, and a maximum building height of 4.50 m (Fig. 175).Building material: Rubble stone.Structural features and condition: Severely dilapidated, some rooms used as cattle pens.Inscriptions: None known.Dating: Qajar, 19th century.] » #3079 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 6:Teil 4: ~ p. 97
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R22-005 Fassa
R22-005 Fassa : 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
SOURCE for Fazza
« 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
SOURCE for Paça
« 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
SOURCE for Passà
« 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

R22-006 Nasirabad
R22-006 Nasirabad : place IRN
VARIANT names: Nasirabad ,
SOURCE for Nasirabad
« February 4th.-Left Fassa at 11 a.m. The road runs through a level plain of apparently rich alluvial soil, everywhere being well cultivated with barley, wheat, and opium, and in some cases Indian-corn. After going for half an hour (1 ¾ miles) passed the village of Nasirabad; Fedishkuh, 1 mile, » #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. 5

R22-007 Harún
R22-007 Harún : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Harom , هارم ,
VARIANT names: Harom , Harum , Harun ,
SOURCE for Harom
SOURCE for Harum
« Harum 5 miles S. E. of Fasā » #3095 Report on Fars by Captain A T Wilson, Indian Political Department, Printed at the government monotype press, Simla, 1916 ~ p. 162
SOURCE for Harun
« Harun » in {map#1192 in #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 ~ fig. Map showing road from Shiraz to Jashk sheet 1}

R22-008 Ghiyásábád
R22-008 Ghiyásábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Ghasiabad , Ghiasabad , Ghiasabad , Ghiyasi , Qeyasabad , Qiasabad , Qiasabad , غیاث آباد ,
VARIANT names: Ghasiabad , Ghiyasabad ,
SOURCE for Ghasiabad
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« Shortly after leaving this village, the road took a south-easterly direction, and the dry bed of a stream was crossed. Still keeping to the plain, and through heavily cultivated ground, passed by the village of Ghiyásábád, the road here getting somewhat more to the south. » #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

R22-009 Nabandágán
R22-009 Nabandágán : 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
SOURCE for Naubandagan
« 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
SOURCE for Nubandagan
« 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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R22-010 Jelyán
R22-010 Jelyán : 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
SOURCE for Jaleyan
SOURCE for Jelyan
« 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

R22-011 Mordi
R22-011 Mordi : 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}

R22-012 Sheshdeh
R22-012 Sheshdeh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Shash Deh , Shesh Deh , Sheshdeh , Shish Deh , ششده ,
VARIANT names: Chiste , Shash-deh , Shesh Deh , Sheshdeh ,
SOURCE for Chiste
« 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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« 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

R22-013 Akbarábád
R22-013 Akbarábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Akbarabad , Akbarabad-e Sheshdeh , Akberabad , اکبر آباد , اکبر آباد ششده ,
VARIANT names: Akbarabad , Akbarabad-e Sheshdeh ,
SOURCE for Akbarabad
« February 6th.-Left at 8-30 A.M. The road from the village of Sheshdeh to that of Akbarábád took a course nearly due east. The latter village was reached at 9-15 A. M. (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. 7
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R22-014 Kalahbulagh
R22-014 Kalahbulagh : place IRN
Supplement: coordinates from Google Maps
VARIANT names: Kalahbulagh , Qarahbolagh ,
SOURCE for Kalahbulagh
« it then diverged to the south-east until the Kala'h Karabulágh was reached at 11-23 4 ?. (7 miles). This is a sort of rallying place of the black tents; it consists of a large tower in the centre, surrounded by four high walls flanked by towers; in the space between the centre tower and the walls are one or two wells of good water. It belongs to the Kawam-ul-Mulk. When we passed, there were in, or about it, 400 tents, 2,000 people, owning 50 span of oxen, 5,000 sheep, and 200 donkeys; 700 máns of wheat and barleysmpe sown yearly. » #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
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R22-014a Tang-i-Bulághy
R22-014a Tang-i-Bulághy : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS UFI: 10401751 coordinate: lat 28.8219 long 54.2213
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-ye Darkuyeh , گردنه دارکویه ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh-ye Darkuyeh , Tang-i-Bulaghy ,
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« M. passed a small open village called Tangábád. This may be considered to be at the entrance of the defile, called Tang-i-Bulághy. From this point the hills closed in rapidly. 2-5 P.M. arrived at the village of Darakuyeh. Distance 13 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. 7

R22-015 Darakuyeh
R22-015 Darakuyeh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Dara Kan , Dara Kuyeh , Daraku , Darakubeh , Darkuyeh , Deh Kooyeh , دارا کان , دارا کویه , دارکویه ,
VARIANT names: Ad-Darkan , Dara Kan , Dara- Kou , Darakan , Darakuyeh , Darkan , Darkkan , Zargan ,
SOURCE for Ad-Darkan
« Under the Shabankârah, the capital of the Dârâbjird province was removed to Darkan (or Zarkan), to the north of which stood the fortress of Îg (or Avig). The Arab geographers of the 4th (10th) century mention these, writing the names Ad-Dârkân or Ad-Dâråkån and Îj, and Istakhri says there was a mosque in his day in both these places. Mustawfi, who generally spells the name Zarkan, and refers to the castle as the Kalah Avig, says that the surrounding district was very fertile, growing cotton, corn, dates, and other fruits. According to him the castle of Avig had been first fortified in Saljûk times by the Khasûyah tribe, and Väkût adds that fruit from here was exported even as far as to the island of Kish (Kays). » #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, ~ p. 289
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« Depuis Chiraz , nous avions observé que nous ne faisions que monter . Parvenus sur une élévation , nous découvrons à peu de distance Dara- Kou , que nous joignons à quatre heures du soir . Ce hameau , composé d'une vingtaine de mâsures , est entouré de murs . Il n'y a qu'un seul dattier , et il ne porte pas de fruits. [From Shiraz, we observed that we were only going up. Arriving on an elevation, we discovered Dara-Kou a short distance away, which we reached at four o'clock in the evening. This hamlet, made up of around twenty buildings, is surrounded by walls. There is only one date tree, and it bears no fruit.] » #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. 348
SOURCE for Darakan
« Dārakān VI D4
Dārāküyeh, au NO de Darab
Etape sur la route de Širaz à Darābagird I 108, 132, H 262, 268, 285
Schw 104, 193
» #2912 Georgette Cornu, Atlas du monde arabo-islamique a l'epoque classique IXe-Xe siecles, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1985, ~
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« 2-5 P.M. arrived at the village of Darakuyeh. Distance 13 miles.
The village is but a small one and somewhat dilapidated. It contains 100 houses, 300 people, 8 span of oxen, 400 sheep, 50 donkeys. Mályát 1,500 krans; 1,500 mans of wheat and barley sown yearly. » #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
SOURCE for Darkan
« On the 5th of June they departed and went to sleep two leagues from there, and at another day (ao outro dia) they went eight leagues [probably to the Darkan of Mr. Le Strange), and the next day (ao outro) six leagues [prob-ably the Timaristan of Le Strange], and they arrived at a great place called Paça [Fasa], with many seed-plots. » #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 Darkkan
« Nearly all the towns named by Hamd - Allah as of Shabankārah may still be recognized on the present map. The capital of the district was Ig, or Avig, a strong fortress, with the town of Darkan [1], or Zarkan, situated at no great distance from it, both places still existing, and further, being mentioned by the earlier authorities. » #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, ~ pp. 74-75
SOURCE for Zargan
« 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

R22-016 Hassanábád
R22-016 Hassanábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Hasanabad , حسن آباد ,
VARIANT names: Hasanabad , Hassanabad , Hassan-Abad ,
SOURCE for Hasanabad
SOURCE for Hassanabad
« 10-50 A.M. passed the village of Hassanábád, » #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
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« Après avoir marché pendant environ une heure dans des champs labourés , en côtoyant de loin un ruisseau , nous passâmes près de Hassan - Abâd , hameau baigné par un torrent que nous traversâmes à gué. [After walking for about an hour in plowed fields, skirting a stream from a distance, we passed near Hassan-Abad, a hamlet bathed by a torrent which we forded.] » #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. 353

R22-016a Chashma Gulabi
R22-016a Chashma Gulabi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: SPNG UFI: 10401509 coordinate: lat 28.7875 long 54.3709
NIMA/GNS names: Cheshmeh-ye Golabi , چشمه گلابی ,
VARIANT names: Chashma Gulabi , Cheshmeh-ye Golabi ,
SOURCE for Chashma Gulabi
« At 1-25 crossed the Chashma Gulabi,?? a fine spring which issues from the base of the hill; the water was beautifully clear and limpid, the excess forms a small stream which runs off into the plain and makes a marsh of some size. » #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
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R22-016b Bakht-i-Gird
R22-016b Bakht-i-Gird : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Bakhlagird , Bakhlajerd , Bakhtajerd , Bakhtajerd , Baxtajerd , بختاجرد ,
VARIANT names: Bakhtajerd , Bakht-i-Gird ,
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SOURCE for Bakht-i-Gird
« 2-40 P.M. passed the village of Bakht-i-Gird on the right about a mile in the plain. » #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

R22-016c Kala'h Daráb
R22-016c Kala'h Daráb : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: 10401626 coordinate: lat 28.6909 long 54.478
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
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« 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. »
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« 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

R22-017 Darabgird
R22-017 Darabgird : 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
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« 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

R22-018a Fathábád
R22-018a Fathábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Fathabad , فتح آباد ,
VARIANT names: Fathabad , Fathabad ,
SOURCE for Fathabad
« February 12th. Left at 7-53 A.M. The road ran through a level plain for about 7 miles, when about a quarter of a mile to the left, the village of Fathábád was passed. Almost directly after, it entered between some low hills, outside of which were numerous low mounds; also evidences of former buildings were noticed. At the immediate entrance to the hills there were the ruins of a large mill. » #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

R22-018 Deh Khayr
R22-018 Deh Khayr : 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

R22-017a Naksh-i-Daráb
R22-017a Naksh-i-Daráb : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: ANS UFI: 10434231 coordinate: lat 28.700347 long 54.593149 † basis (c)
Supplement: NIMA/GNS data « 28.699014, 54.588476,Masjed-e Sangi,ANS » amended to 482m. away heading 72°
VARIANT names: Masjed-e Sangi , Masjid-i Sang , Naksh-i-Darab , Stome Mosque ,
SOURCE for Masjed-e Sangi
SOURCE for Masjid-i Sang
« [About 6 km. further south-east, at the foot of the same ridge, the so-called Masjid-i Sang (Stone Mosque) has been carved out of the rock, with an altar niche at the east end, a nave and transepts in the shape of a Greek cross, suggesting that it may originally have been a Nestorian Christian church. It is known that a Nestorian bishopric existed at Darabgird during the Sassanian period. ... [An inscription cut into the rock is dated A.D. 1254 indicating the chamber's use as a mosque at a later period. » #888 Matheson, S., Persia. An Archaeological Guide, Faber and Faber Limited, 1976 ~ p. 261
SOURCE for Naksh-i-Darab
« . - Left at 10-30 A.M., went round the hills to the south to see what is known as the Naksh-i-Daráb. After riding for an hour and a quarter round the base of the hills, came to the Naksh.
In a sort of bay of the hills, above a very fine clear pool of a water, a piece of rock has been squared away, measuring some 12 to 14 feet in length by 9 feet in height. On this a fine bas-relief has been carved. In the centre is a figure, life-sized, seated on a somewhat small horse. It has the large globular head-dress and bunch of curly hair rendered familiar to us in the various other bas-reliefs at Shahpur, Naksh-i-Rustám, Naksh-i-Rejeb, and on the coins of the various Sassanian kings. » #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. 11
SOURCE for Stome Mosque

R22-019 Rosak
R22-019 Rosak : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Rastagh , Rostaq , Rusaq , Rustakh , Rustaq , رستاق ,
VARIANT names: Rosak , Rostak , Rustakh ,
SOURCE for Rosak
« called Chahardang, leaving this on the left and following the valley for a mile, crossed over a small hill;??after going for another hour got to the village of Rosak. Distance 28 miles. The village is in a very tumbled-down condition, with no accommodation, but it is very picturesquely situated. The hills to the north are high and bold; those to the south, whilst of inferior height and much broken up, some with a considerable amount of scrub, have abrupt sides and sharp bold peaks. In the valley itself, clumps of myrtle, with several large isolated konar trees, aided the picture, whilst a good deal of cultivation, with a fair stream of clear water running through the centre, completed it. In no place was the road impassable to wheeled carts, nor is there a difficult place about it. » #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. 14
SOURCE for Rostak
« gravissons ensuite une montagne , et nous descendons dans un autre vallon , avant d'entrer à Rostak , misérable village entouré de murs , dont le riz et le blé sont les seules productions . On nous donna pour logement une maison délabrée qu'habitait autrefois un khân . On y voit encore plusieurs bassins et deux tours carrées . Les appartemens étaient rafraîchis par des tuyaux ventilateurs pratiqués dans l'épaisseur des murs . [We then climb a mountain, and we descend into another valley, before entering Rostak, a miserable village surrounded by walls, of which rice and wheat are the only products. We were given accommodation in a dilapidated house that had once been inhabited by a khan. We can still see several pools and two square towers. The apartments were cooled by fan pipes made in the thickness of the 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. 362
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R22-018b Chahardang
R22-018b Chahardang : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chahar Dang , Chahar Deh , Chehardeh , چهار ده ,
VARIANT names: Chahar Dang , Chahardang ,
SOURCE for Chahar Dang
SOURCE for Chahardang
« At 12 PM. passed a ruined village and halted at a Bourg, slightly off the road, where there was some water. 2 P.M. started again. The southern hills here began to converge rapidly, and the plain, which before was very open, narrowed considerably. After going 7 miles came to some low hills, spurs of the above, and descending by an easy gradient between two of them, came into a narrow valley with a small village in its centre called Chahardang, » #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 ~ pp. 13-4

R22-019a Gardeneh Bezan-i-Forg
R22-019a Gardeneh Bezan-i-Forg : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PASS UFI: 10437734 coordinate: lat 28.377 long 55.1563
NIMA/GNS names: Gardaneh-ye Bazan , گردنه بزن ,
VARIANT names: Gardaneh-ye Bazan , Gardeneh Bezan-i-Forg ,
SOURCE for Gardaneh-ye Bazan
SOURCE for Gardeneh Bezan-i-Forg
« February 13th. From Rosak to Forg there are two roads, -one by a Gardeneh, which, I was told, was 4 Farsakhs, and one by a Tang, 5 Farsakhs. I was told that the latter was the easier, and was more or less level the wholeway, but that it was full of turns and twists. The shorter road appeared to me to be better suited to a telegraph line, so I went by that. Left Rosak at 8-7 A.M. For the first 5 miles the road ran through the valley, level and easy-going; the country gra- dually became very confined. At 10 o'clock, or after going 6 miles, began to ascend gradually over a very stony road, and at 10-30 came to the head of the Gardeneh, called the Gardeneh Bezan-i-Forg. » #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.14

R22-020 Forg : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Farak , Forg , Furg , Furk , فرگ ,
VARIANT names: Burj , Burk , Chuerch , Forg , Forgh , Furg , Porcam , Porcão [Furg] , Porg , Purg , Purg or Furg ,
SOURCE for Burj
« No longer remarkable are the two towns, or more exactly villages, of Darabjird, whose creation tradition ascribes to Darius I, and Furg or Furj, Arabic Burj, both also situated on the main road from Färs to Kirman. In the tenth century, there were fortified towns of commerce and industry here, and the main market was in Fasa. » #975 Barthold, W, An Historical Geography of Iran … translated By Svat Soucek, Edited with an Introduction By C.E. Bosworth, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, ~ p. 161
SOURCE for Burk
« and thence 3 leagues to Burk (Purg or Forg); from here it is 6 leagues to Tashlu, » #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. 177
SOURCE for Chuerch
« Primo nui ritroviamo una città la qual se chiama Chuerch, 311) lassando certi castelli li quali se vedeno prima che s se ariva in ditta città, di quali non habbiamo cosa alcuna memorabile da dir; in questa città è una fossa d'aqua nel modo di una fontana, fn. 311. Chuerch. Termine evidentemente corrotto. Sembra probabile che si intenda la cittadina di Furg (anticamente Purg), sulla carovaniera da Shiraz a Bandar-'Abbās, via Däräbgird, a 160 km. da quest'ultima località. Muqaddasi, che scrive Furj, afferma che vi erano due città gemelle, Furj e Burk; la prima era dotata di numerose terme, poichè l'acqua vi abbondava, come del resto nella città vicina. Nulla egli dice però del pozzo descritto dal Barbaro. Non si trovano riferimenti a tale pozzo neppure nelle altre fonti da noi consultate, come il Fars-Nama di IBN AL-BALKHI (pp. 128, 130, 159 e 161) e la Nuzhat-al-Qulub del MUSTAUFI, cit., p. 37. Pietro della Valle attraverserà Purg (così egli scrive) viaggiando da Shiraz al Golfo Persico, ma non ne lascierà alcuna descrizione. E assai improbabile che il nome sia corruzione di Khärg o Kharak, perchè questa è un'isola, ciò che quasi certamente il Barbaro avrebbe fatto notare. (Lo.) [First we find a city called Chuerch, 311) leaving behind certain castles which are seen before one arrives in the said city, of which we have nothing memorable to say; in this city there is a ditch of water in the manner of a fountain, fn. 311. Chuerch. Evidently a corrupt term. It seems probable that the town of Furg (anciently Purg) is meant, on the caravan route from Shiraz to Bandar-'Abbās, via Däräbgird, 160 km. from the latter locality. Muqaddasi, who writes Furj, states that there were two twin cities, Furj and Burk; the first was equipped with numerous thermal baths, since water was abundant there, as in the neighbouring city. He says nothing, however, of the well described by Barbaro. There are no references to this well even in the other sources we consulted, such as the Fars-Nama of IBN AL-BALKHI (pp. 128, 130, 159 and 161) and the Nuzhat-al-Qulub of MUSTAUFI, cit., p. 37. Pietro della Valle will cross Purg (so he writes) traveling from Shiraz to the Persian Gulf, but will not leave any description of it. It is very unlikely that the name is a corruption of Khärg or Kharak, because this is an island, which is what the Barbaro would almost certainly have pointed out. (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. 146
SOURCE for Forg
« The town of Forg, so to call it, is surrounded by a mud wall in the form of a square, with a side of perhaps 400 yards, armed with round towers at regular intervals. It had four tall gates, and a governor's residence inside; but these are all ruined and deserted now. » #3078 Stack, Edward, Six months in Persia, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1882 ~ vol. 1 p. 156
« and at about 3 miles off had Forg before us; an easy hour's ride took us in.The plain is nearly circular, with several date topes about. We also saw two blue-domed Imamzadehs in the distance. The village of Forg is square, walled in by mud walls, with flanking towers, a gate with flanking towers, on its east and west faces. The houses are all built of mud or else sun-dried bricks; the best of them seem to be but a broken down concern.The place is in anything but a prosperous condition. The ople, however, were very civil and obliging. Water seems very plentiful, several small but good streams running through the streets. Provisions also in abundance and cheap. Distance 14 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. 15
« En nous dirigeant toujours vers l'ouest , nous arrivons à Forg à deux heures après - midi . On entre dans cette ville par un pont de pierre délabré . Elle est murée en partie , et de mauvais fossés sont creusés à l'entour . [Still heading west, we arrive at Forg at two o'clock in the afternoon. You enter this town via a dilapidated stone bridge. It is partly walled, and bad ditches are dug around it.] » #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. 363
« 17 mai. Forg. Comme nous nous sommes passablement élevés, la nuit fut très-froide. Forg est un peu en meilleur état que Taroun. Je croyais y trouver quelque chose à manger, mais il fallut me contenter de dattes, quoiqu'elles me fissent mal. Les mules qu'on m'avait annoncées étaient parties depuis quelques jours: il fallut encore avoir recours aux ânes, que je payai extrêmement cher. [May 17. Forg. As we rose quite a bit, the night was very cold. Forg is in slightly better shape than Taroun. I thought I would find something to eat there, but I had to make do with dates, although they hurt me. The mules that I had been told had left a few days ago: I still had to resort to donkeys, for which I paid extremely dearly.] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 597
« At 9 miles it passes through the grass huts of Kohima, and at 10 miles enters the town of Forg. » #3269 H. B. Vaughan, Report of a journey through Persia., Superintendent of Government Printing in Calcutta, 1890 ~ p. 15
SOURCE for Forgh
SOURCE for Furg
« Furg is a town surrounded by a high mud wall, flanked at intervals of 75 yards by round mud towers. There is no ditch, but the defences are in a most ruinous state; a large tower in the centre of the town is used as a keep. » #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. 218
« At 19½ miles the town of Furg is reached -vide stage 4, Route No. 2 (A). » #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. 495
SOURCE for Porcam
« PorcamOn the Saturday of May they set out from Taurom on their way, and on Sunday they arrived at Porcam, a place of Braim Beça, and they lodged in a large orange grove that had two houses and a large vineyard and dates and others belonging to the governor » #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. 236
SOURCE for Porcão [Furg]
« They departed from Taurom on Saturday the 19th of May, [and] following their way, they arrived at Porcão [Furg] on Sunday, [a] place of Braym Beça, and they were lodged in a great orange grove of his, which had two places with houses and a great vineyard and dates and other [*] fruits and great rearing of horses and livestock. It has forty inhabitants, and around it many of his places greater than this. Here they were until Tuesday [May 22, 1515 » #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 Porg
Porg
- Attestations: The mint signature PW/PWRGY has been attached to a location in Fars
based on die linkages between coins with this signature and other editions produced in
Fars by Bahram IV and Yazdgerd I. Mochiri has identified this mint signature with
Forg (112).
- Identification: Forg was a town and district in Darabgerd Khurrah. The modern town of
Forg is located to the southeast of Darab. Remains of a fire temple known as Chak Chak
are located to the east of Forg (113), providing confirmation of the existence of a Sasanian
settlement in this area.
SOURCE for Purg
« Purg- Attestations: The mint signature PW/PWRGY has been attached to a location in Pars based on die linkages between coins with this signature and other editions produced in Pārs by Wahram IV and Yazdegird I. Mochiri has identified this mint signature with 97 Purg- Identification: Purg was a town and district in Darabgerd. The modern town of Forg is located to the southeast of Darab. Remains of a fire temple known as Cak-Cak are located to the east of Forg, providing confirmation of the existence of a Sasanian set- tlement in this area. » #3092 Negin Miri, Sasanian Pars: Historical Geography and Administrative Organization, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California, 2012 ~ p. 64
SOURCE for Purg or Furg
« Il venerdi, al far del giorno, dopo aver fatto cinque leghe, arrivammo a posarci in una villa molto grossa, di forse duemila case, sparse tuttavia in confuso tra gli alberi de' dattili, sotto ai quali son rozzamente fabbricate, e la chiamano Purg, ovvero Furg, che così l'usano di scrivere. [On Friday, at daybreak, after having traveled five leagues, we arrived to settle in a very large villa, of perhaps two thousand houses, however scattered in confusion among the dactyl trees, under which they are rudely built, and they call it Purg , or Furg, which is how they write it.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 280

R22-020a Kala'h Bahman
R22-020a Kala'h Bahman : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh-i-Bahman Faridun , Qal`eh-ye Bahman Fereydun , قلعۀ بهمن فريدون ,
VARIANT names: Kala'h Bahman , Kaleh Bahman , Qal`eh-i-Bahman Faridun ,
SOURCE for Kala'h Bahman
« Left at 7-30 A. M. After going 3 miles, came to a hill on the right, on which were the remains of a ruined castle, and at the foot of it a number of mounds and other signs of a town. The place is known as the Kala'h Bahman.The hill is some 180 feet high, and, together with the ruins about its foot, covers a considerable amount of ground. All over the hill facing the east are ruins of towers and walls, built of rough, unhewn stones and lime. To the west it is quite precipitous, and is only guarded by a wall, which follows the line of the crest from the flanking walls. This wall is terminated at its southern end by a large tower. Just below it is a large and deep chasm; this was in all probability a well. Near it is an excavation in the rock and hill-side, built up with stones and mortar, where it was necessary; 18 yards by 7; this was a large tank. In front of this again is a small conical hill, upon which was a small house of four rooms, the front one looking east, being 21 feet long by 10 wide, and the three back ones about 10 feet square. Around the foot of the hill are the remains of a wall of stones and mortar, similar to that on it; beyond this wall again, but starting from the same point at the northern end of the hill, is a wall which encircles the whole base of the hill at a distance of some 400 yards; it rejoins the defences of the hill at a bastion on a spur at the southern end. In this enclosed space are many mounds of various sizes, and one larger than the others; apparently has had a wall of its own to protect it. » #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 ~ pp. 15-16
SOURCE for Kaleh Bahman
« which continues to 16¼ miles, where there is a hill on the left of the road on which are the remains of a ruined castle and at the foot of it a number of mounds and other signs of a town. The place is known as the Kaleh Bahman. The hill is some 180 feet high and together with the ruins about its foot, covers a considerable amount of ground. All over the hill facing the east are ruins of towers and walls, built of rough uneven stones and lime. To the west it is quite precipitous, and is only guarded by a wall, which follows the line of the crest from the flanking walls. The wall is terminated at its southern end by a large tower. » #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. 495
SOURCE for Qal`eh-i-Bahman Faridun

R22-020B Taskat
R22-020B Taskat : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Dastgerd , Tashku'iyeh , Taskat , Tasku'iyeh , Tushkuyeh , تسكات , توشكويه , دستگرد , طاسكوئيه , طاشكوئیه ,
VARIANT names: Tach-Kou , Tascut or Tascuie , Tashku'iyeh , Taskat ,
SOURCE for Tach-Kou
« La vallée s'élargit du N. au S. , et se rétrécit vers l'O. et l'E . Le terrain est stérile et fangeux. A trois heures après midi , nous sommes àTach-Kou, petit hameau composé d'une ving taine de cabanes construites avec des branches de palmiers au pied d'un mont , au sommet duquel est le tombeau d'un imâm . [The valley widens from N. to S., and narrows towards the W. and the . The land is barren and muddy. At three o'clock in the afternoon, we are in Tach-Kou, a small hamlet made up of around twenty huts built with palm branches at the foot of a mountain, at the top of which is the tomb of an imam.] » #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. 371
SOURCE for Tascut or Tascuie
« Finalmente verso l'ora di compieta si scaricò a riposare in un palmeto, che si trova in un basso a piè di quei monti; ed è di una villa che stava un poco più innanzi, chiamata Tascut o Tascuie. [Finally, around the time of Compline, he went down to rest in a palm grove, which is located in the lowlands at the foot of those mountains; and it belongs to a villa that was a little further on, called Tascut or Tascuie.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 281
SOURCE for Tashku'iyeh
SOURCE for Taskat
« by some convulsion of nature out of their original positions within a few hours. Another half hour's rough going over and around hills and up and down ravines, we came out on a small level plain. It took just an hour to cross it; we then crossed over the slope at the bottom of some hills; this was cut up in every direction by watercourses, and apparently, by the number of round stones about, at certain times must be swept by floods. Another hour's ride brought us to Taskat, which is a village some 3 miles off the main road. The place is very dilapidated, with no good roads; it has, however, a very fine date grove. Distance 19 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. 17
« At 26 miles the village of Taskat is reached which is situated some three miles off the main road. The place is very dilapidated with no good road; it has, however, a very fine date grove. » #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. 494

R22-021 Said Jowdar
R22-021 Said Jowdar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: SHRN UFI: 10439104 coordinate: lat 28.128163 long 55.680977
NIMA/GNS names: Ziaratgah-e Seyyed Jowzar , زيارتگاه سید جوزر ,
VARIANT names: Said Jaudar , Said Jowdar , Seid Gevder , Syed Jozah , Ziaratgah-e Seyyed Jowzar ,
SOURCE for Said Jaudar
« At 6¼ miles the direct road between Sa'adatābād and Furg is left; this route, although easier, has no village on it, and is principally used by the iliits. At 8 miles the road from Tārūn to Lar is passed, Route No. 2(b). At 10½ miles the small village of Rafiābād, is passed with the village of Karkum, about two miles to the N.-E., both with good date plantations; about the plain date groves are to be seen in every direction. The road now runs across a level plain with a good deal of salt incrusta- tions about. At 13½ miles Said Jaudar is reached, a poorish village with a good date grove. The houses are all date leaf huts. » #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. 493
SOURCE for Said Jowdar
« The plain is covered in nearly every direction with salt efflores- cence, and in some parts the going is very soft, but easy carts could be used without difficulty, except during rainy weather.Just before turning to the north-east, around a point of the hills, came to the direct road to Forg. After passing this point the plain opened out to the north, going then for 7 miles further, cameto Said Jowdar, a poorish village with a good date grove. There?? were no provisions of any sort to be got; the water, however, was good, and there seemed plenty of it. A small stream from the hills, Taskat. » #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. 18
SOURCE for Seid Gevder
« A mezzanotte incirca levatasi la luna ci rimettemmo di nuovo in cammino, e dopo aver fatto cinque leghe di strada sempre per piano, e quasi sempre costeggiando la fila de' monti, che avevamo a man sinistra, con vederne un'altra fila a man destra di lontano; la domenica, passato mezzogiorno di un pezzetto, presso ad una picciolissima villa di dieci o dodici case, in mezzo di un pal- meto, che lo chiamano Seid Gevder, dal nome di un tale che vi è sepolto, dai paesani venerato, eleggemmo di prender riposo sotto un grande albero, di certa specie, che a me pareva di non avere ancor mai più veduta. [At about midnight, when the moon rose, we set off again, and after traveling five leagues of road, always on level ground, and almost always skirting the line of mountains on our left hand, seeing another line of mountains on our right hand. from afar; on Sunday, after noon a little way, near a very small villa of ten or twelve houses, in the middle of a palm grove, which they call Seid Gevder, from the name of a man who is buried there, venerated by the villagers, we chose to to take rest under a large tree, of a certain species, which it seemed to me I would never see again.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 281
SOURCE for Syed Jozah
« Skirting the moutains, at 14 miles, the shrine, grove, and hamlet of Syed Jozah. » #3331 Routes in Persia, Section 1, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/369, in Qatar Digital Library, ~ p. 59
SOURCE for Ziaratgah-e Seyyed Jowzar

R22-021a Rafeeabád
R22-021a Rafeeabád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Rafi`abad , رفيع آباد ,
VARIANT names: Rafeeabad , Rafiabad ,
SOURCE for Rafeeabad
« After riding for an hour passed the small village of Rafeeabád with the village of?? Karkun about 2 miles to the north-east, both with good date plan-tations; about the plain date topes were to be seen in every direc- tion. At 9-10 A.Μ. passed the road from Tarun to Lar. 9-54 A.M. came on to the direct road from Forg to Bundar Abbas. This, however, has no villages on it, and seems only to be used by Eeliants. » #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. 18
SOURCE for Rafiabad
« At 10½ miles the small village of Rafiābād, is passed with the village of Karkum, about two miles to the N.-E., both with good date plantations; » #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. 493

R22-021b Sa'adatábád
R22-021b Sa'adatábád : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: PPLX UFI: 10439098 coordinate: lat 28.054463 long 55.877338
NIMA/GNS names: Sa`adatabad , سعادت آباد ,

R22-021d Tang-e-Zagh
R22-021d Tang-e-Zagh : place IRN
VARIANT names: Tang-e-Zagh , Tang-i Zag ,
SOURCE for Tang-e-Zagh
« Tang-e-Zagh » in {map#1135 U.S. Army Map Series K501: Iraq and Iran:, , , The University of Chicago fig. Bandar_Abbas G-40C 1942}
« the end of the plain the road made a short, sharp descent into the dry bed of a river, and then upon mounting the other side, immediately entered the Tang-i-Zágh; this is a difficult place, the windings of the defile are very considerable, the hills on each side are often nearly perpendicular, exhibiting at times most wonderful colouring and queer shapes, the like of which I have never seen in this country. Nature has used her paint box with a liberal hand, and formed such a picture as would delight an artist's eye. "Hills upon hills and alps on alps arise;" their sides of deepest purple streaked with, or fading away into, tinges of the most delicate violet or mauve, some with sides of rose, with deep bold splashes of black or bluish green, others of a tawny, yellow striped with a bronze brown, such as would bring joy to the heart of an æsthetic he here would have a chance of living up to, but I doubt his capability of climbing them, if he was not limp before doing so, he certainly would be after. It is not one individual hill by itself that is so extraordinary, but the way they are grouped, and the contrasts of colour which make up this wonderful picture, unequalled by anything that I have seen either in Persia or the Caucasus. After getting through the defiles the road bent to the south-west and gradually ascended » #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. 19
SOURCE for Tang-i Zag
« mummy a kind of bitumen used as medicine for wounds and fractures; mümiya' was exported to all countries, and its mining was then, as now, a government monopoly. 68 The same substance was used A border town of Färs was Tarum, now Tarun; the road from there to Hurmuz led, most probably, through the mountain gorge Tang-i Zag, famous, according to Tumanskii, throughout the whole south of Persia. (69) fn. 69 Ot Kaspriskogo moria, p. 96. » #975 Barthold, W, An Historical Geography of Iran … translated By Svat Soucek, Edited with an Introduction By C.E. Bosworth, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, ~ p. 161

R22-021c Tang-i-Lamby
R22-021c Tang-i-Lamby : place IRN
VARIANT names: Tang-i-Lamby ,
SOURCE for Tang-i-Lamby
« February 19th.- Left at 6-30 A.M. The road for the first 2 miles was somewhat up hill, slightly stony. It then entered the Tang-i-Lamby, winding about for some 20 minutes among low hills, and then came out on a small plain about 6 miles long by 4 wide. The Tang in no place was difficult-going, in some places it was a bit stony, but otherwise the road was good. » #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. 19

R22-021e Abmah
R22-021e Abmah : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Ab Mar , Abmah , آب مار , آبماه ,
VARIANT names: Ab Mah , Abmah ,
SOURCE for Ab Mah
« Thence across the valley again over stony ground to Ab-Mar, lying on the N.-E. side of the valley at 16 miles. Here are a few houses. It is better to go on another 4½ miles further north, where there is a little water in a nālā; it shortens the next stage. Leaving Ab-Mar, direction N.-E. the valley widens out into an open plain bounded on the N.-E. by a lofty range. The road then swings round and assumes a northerly direction, a ridge of hills being close on the right. From here the route lies over a stony plateau for about a mile and then drops left bank » #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. 492
SOURCE for Abmah
« Then gradually descending, it entered the dry bed of a river, and follow- ing this for some 5 miles, passed the village of Abmah, about a mile to the left. » #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. 19

R22-022 Gohrah
R22-022 Gohrah : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Gohreh , Gohreh-ye Faryab Chelow , Guhra , گهره , گهرۀ فارياب چلو ,
VARIANT names: Gohrah , Gohreh , Gora , Guhre ,
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« «5-40 P.M., arrived at Gohrah. Distance 29 miles. ... Gohrah has no proper village or houses, but opposite to a Tofangchi tower, which is in partial ruins; we put up in a good- sized room made of sun-dried bricks. The houses or huts of date palm leaves are erected all over the place under the date trees, which are very numerous. There are 350 such huts inhabited by 700 people; 2,000 sheep, 80 cows. 60 oxen, are owned by them. » #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. 20 » #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. 20
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« Nous arrivons à Gora à sept heures et demie du soir . Ce hameau , composé d'environ cinquante cabanes construites en branches de palmiers , est au pied d'un mont , sur la crête duquel s'élève un mur flanqué de tours [We arrive in Gora at half past seven in the evening. This hamlet, made up of about fifty cabins built from palm tree branches, is at the foot of a mountain, on the crest of which rises a wall flanked by towers.] » #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. 381
« 9 mai. Nous continuâmes notre route dans la même direction et toujours de nuit, car dans le jour il n'y a pas possibilité de voyager. Le pays est désert, aride et sans eau; il nous fallut absolument gagner Gora, petit village avec de grandes plantations de Palmiers et où le Pommier commence à être cultivé; c'est peut-être l'arbre fruitier qui s'étend le plus au Nord et au Midi. Il y a à Gora les ruines de deux khans qui annoncent que cet endroit avait autrefois un peu plus d'importance. [May 9. We continued our journey in the same direction and always at night, because during the day there is no possibility of traveling. The country is desert, arid and without water; we absolutely had to reach Gora, a small village with large palm plantations and where apple trees are beginning to be cultivated; it is perhaps the fruit tree that extends furthest to the North and the South. In Gora there are the ruins of two khans which indicate that this place once had a little more importance. ] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 593
SOURCE for Guhre
« Il giovedi, ad un'ora o poco più di sole, cam- minate quattro leghe, ci fermammo a posare a canto ad una peschiera, circondata da sponde alte di terra, nella quale raccol- gono i paesani un poco di acqua corrente, che di là passa fuori e poco lontano da una villa chiamata Guhrè. [On Thursday, at an hour or so of sunshine, after walking four leagues, we stopped to rest next to a fishpond, surrounded by high earthen banks, in which the villagers collect a little running water, which from there it passes outside and not far from a villa called Guhrè.] » #1530 Pietro Della Valle, Viaggi di Pietro della Valle: il pellegrino, G. Gancia, Brighton, 1843, ~ vol. 2 p. 286

R22-022a Zuratu
R22-022a Zuratu : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Zartu-ye Bala , Zaztoo , Zoratu Bala , Zorratu , Zuratu , ذرتو , ذرتو بالا , زرتوی بالا , ززت , زوراتو ,
VARIANT names: Zuratu ,
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« ?then something in the shape of a Gardeneh or rather a long slope from the hill on the right. Kuh-i-Zuratu cut up by watercourses, led down to the little village of Zuratu, a small place nestling under the hill. This was about the best camping place we had had, nice patches of green turf, under fine date trees, with a good spring of fresh water rushing from the hill-side. This spring continues good all through the year.Distance 7 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. 20
« At 18 miles the hamlet of Zuratū is reached. It lies immediately under the range of smooth hillswhich bounds the S.-W. side of the valley. Water. Good and abundant from a spring at the base of the hill.Supplies. Very scanty. » #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. 491

R22-023 Sarzeh
R22-023 Sarzeh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Sarzeh , سرزه ,
VARIANT names: Sarzeh , Sarzen , Sazeh ,
POSSIBLE LOCATION at Sarzeh FOR Ser zehi rizeuon [PBR],
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« The river lies about 40 feet below the level of the plain, and its left bank in some parts is a rocky scarp. The route now lies up a rocky ravine on to an open plain of sandy gravel. The river flows on the left, 100 yards distant, and on the right is the end of a rocky spur or ridge. Just before reaching the village of Sarzeh, at 16 miles, the river has again to be forded. The village consists of a few scattered huts.Water. Good and abundant from 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. 490
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#1511 p. 655
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« 7 mai. Notre marche, encore de nuit, fut un peu plus longue, toujours dans un désert aride et pierreux. Nous nous arrêtâmes à Sazeh, village persan (1); fn. (1) Notre voyageur entre dans le Laristan. La contrée qu'il vient de quitter appartient aussi à la Perse; mais elle est habitée par la race Arabe. [May 7. Our walk, still at night, was a little longer, still in an arid and stony desert. We stopped at Sazeh, a Persian village (1); fn. (1) Our traveler enters Laristan. The country he has just left also belongs to Persia; but it is inhabited by the Arab race.] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 593

R22-024 Hermudar
R22-024 Hermudar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Hermoodar Bala , Hermudar , Hurmudar , Hurmudar Bala , Hurmurd , Khvormehdan-e Bala , خورمهدان بالا , هرمدر بل , هرمودر , هورمودر ,
VARIANT names: Hermudar ,
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« Leaving Chahaly, immediately dropped into the wide bed of a river with high sandstone cliffs on each side. This we followed for 20 minutes, and then ascending the cliffs to the right by a sharp, short pass, got into a lot of curious sandstone hills cut up in every direction into funny forms and peaks by the effects of running water, Followed along a road in the plateau of sandstone, which was nothing but a series of narrow troughs cut by the innumerable feet of donkeys and assisted by rain, for over an hour, and then descending quickly, came on to the sands which surround Bandar Abbas. » #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. 22
« March 1st. Left at 9-5 A.M. Went out by the same road as I came in. Nothing of any consequence to note, except that the place I have hitherto called Chahaly, is really Hormudar, Chahaly being about half a mile to the north.Arrived at Hormudar at 12-45 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. 23

R22-025 Bandar Abbas
R22-025 Bandar Abbas : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Bandar `Abbas , Bandar `Abbasi , Bandar-e `Abbas , Cambarao , Gombroon , Gumrun , Port Comorao , بندر عباس , بندر عباس , بندر عباسی , گمبرن ,
VARIANT names: Bandar , Bandar Abbas , Bandar port , Bandel , Bandel do Comorão , Bander - Abassi , Bander goomroone , Bander-Abaffie , Banderabassi , Bander-Abassi , Banderabassy , Bender Abaʃʃi , Bender gomrow , Bender-Abassy , Bender-Abbassi , Camarão , Combrú , Comerão , Gambrun , Gamron , Gamru , Gamrun , Gombroon , Gombrun , Goumeron , Hurmuz or Bandar ,
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« so that I re|solv'd to get to Bandar, whatever it cost me, out of the confidence I had that there, among so many Merchants of several Nations who trade thither, I should find some ease. » #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. 6
SOURCE for Bandar Abbas
« There are grounds for believing that the town is situated on or near the site of the small fishing village of Shahrū (see Iṣṭakhri, 67) or Shahruvā (see the Ḥudūd al-ʿAlam, 124 and 375). When the neighbouring island of Djarūn (or Djarrūn) ceased to be so called and was given instead the name of Hormuz at the beginning of the 8th/14th century, the former name was transferred to Shahrū. » #2645 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, Brill, Leiden, ~ vol. 1 p. 1013
« trockensten, allerheißesten, giftigsten, ungesundesten, verfluchtesten und der Hölle schatverwande Ormusschen Seehafen und Stadt Gamron oder Bandar 'Abbas. [driest, hottest, most poisonous, unhealthy, most cursed and hell-bound Ormuz seaport and city of Gamron or Bandar 'Abbas.] » #3220 Engelbert Kaempfer, ed. Karl Meier-Lemgo, Die Reisetagebu¨cher, F. Steiner, Weisbaden, 1968 ~ p. 125
« Leaving Chahaly, immediately dropped into the wide bed of a river with high sandstone cliffs on each side. This we followed for 20 minutes, and then ascending the cliffs to the right by a sharp, short pass, got into a lot of curious sandstone hills cut up in every direction into funny forms and peaks by the effects of running water, Followed along a road in the plateau of sandstone, which was nothing but a series of narrow troughs cut by the innumerable feet of donkeys and assisted by rain, for over an hour, and then descending quickly, came on to the sands which surround Bandar Abbas. » #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. 22
« 1614. (The Captain-major) “under orders of Dom Luis da Gama returned to succour Comorão, but found the enemy’s fleet already there and the fort surrendered.…News which was heard by Dom Luis da Gama and most of the people of Ormuz in such way as might be expected, some of the old folks of Ormuz prognosticating at once that in losing Comorão Ormuz itself would be lost before long, seeing that the former was like a barbican or outwork on which the rage of the Persian enemy spent itself, giving time to Ormuz to prepare against their coming thither.” - Bocarro, Decada, 349. » #379 Yule, Henry and Burnell A. C., Hobson-Jobson, The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1996 ~ p. 384
« from Lar to Bandar (28). And that is where the harbour of Hormuz (29) is, fn. 28 By "Bandar" (lit., harbour) Nikitin means Old Hormuz (see next note).fn. 29 Hormuz is an island and old seaport in the Persian Gulf. Old Hormuz stood on the coast. » #623 Nikitin, Athanasy, Khozhenie za tri moria Afanasiia Nikitina, 1466-1472 gg. (Afansy Nikitin's Voyage beyond the Three Seas, 1466-1472), Moskva, 1960, ~ p. 109
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« Ho dominguo pela menhaam chegaram ao porto de banda que está na terra firme tres legoas d ormuz, [On Sunday morning they arrived at the port of Banda, which is on dry land three leagues from Ormuz,] » #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. 235
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« fn. 11 In referring to the general area of the Persian littoral, Silva y Figueroa employs the Portuguese term Bandel, based on Persian bandar (meaning “harbor city”); this region corresponds to the present-day Iranian province of Hormozgān, which faces the Persian Gulf near the Straits of Hormuz (see p. 244) » #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. 246
« fn. 94 The Persian word bandar, meaning “harbor city,” refers to the Persian littoral around
Gamrū [Bandar-e ʿAbbās]; see YandB, 58, s.v. “bandel.” For the province in which the Bandel
is located, see p. 246 n. 11. » #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. 285
The next morning the sultan of the Bandel, under whose jurisdiction [fol. 476r] falls the section of mainland between Gamrū and the island of Qeshm, » #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. 732
« The Portuguese were detained "some days" at the port of Bandel, taking horses (canalgaduras) to ride upon, and camels for their possessions (fato), and sundry other things for their journey. Our author, in a brief note, describes Bandel (Bandar Abbas) as a place of thatched houses, inhabited by poor people, living in a land well provided with dates. » #3255 Ronald Bishop Smith., The First Age of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations in Persia (1507-1524), Decatur Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 1970 ~ p. 64
SOURCE for Bandel do Comorão
« The origins of Bandel do Comorão lay in the period after the Portuguese took Hormuz in 1515 during ‘the time of the Kings of Lar who allowed them to stay there so they could better supply Ormuz.’ (5) The island’s hereditary rulers had traditionally claimed allegiance from parts of Mughestan and Birunat from which were derived significant revenues.(6)
fn. 5 CASA OCD 234/d, Fr Redento de la Cruz, Relación. chap. XXX, f.1
fn. 6 Aubin, Jean. 1973 ‘Le Royaume d’Ormuz au début du XVIe siècle’, Mare Luso-Indicum, vol 2, 107-8. Mughestan comprised the coastal territory east of the Strait of Hormuz between Minab in the north and the southern coast at Jask. Minab, Manujan and Vaskird, north-east of the Strait, represented three districts of Birunat from which Hormuz earned revenues. » #1698 Faridany, E. K., Signal Defeat: the Portuguese Loss of Comorão in 1614 and its Political and Commercial Consequences at Portugal, The Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia Conference, 8-9 September 2007 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Washington, 2007 ~ p.2
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« On a à la gauche les montagnes, et la mer à la droite, mais à tant de distance qu'on ne la voit que quand on est tout proche de Bander - Abassi; on dé- couvre sur la route plusieurs bois de dattiers, qui sont les maisons d'été des gens de ces pays- là. A cinq cents pas de la ville, il y a un bureau de raalidars, ou gardes des grands chemins, qui sert de bornes au gouvernement de Laar, lequel s'étend jusqu'en ce lieu. Je fus mettre pied à terre au bureau de la compagnie des Indes orientales de France , dont un fort honnête homme de Dijon, nommé M. Perrot , ëtolt le chef. [We have the mountains on the left, and the sea on the right, but at such a distance that we only see it when we are very close to Bander - Abassi; On the road we discover several date palm groves, which are the summer homes of the people of these countries. Five hundred steps from the town, there is an office of raalidars, or guards of the highways, which serves as boundaries for the government of Laar, which extends to this place. I disembarked at the office of the French East India Company, of which a very honest man from Dijon, named M. Perrot, was the head.] » #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. 505-6
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19 The 19th daye being Fridaye we came to Bander goomroone [Gombroon], being the port,wch place we did long to see; and att lengtht the almighti God out of His bountiful merciehath brought vs safe, haueing past thorow great many misseries and troubles. This night Mr.Robert Hedges, a gentn and being a spetiall freind of mine, agreed wth my self for to ride thorow to the towne being 7 lges., and lighted att the English howse, wher we were courteousely entertayned.Here we took our lodging this night.
SOURCE for Bander-Abaffie
« « Endlich den 15, Octobr.noch fruhe mors gens bey guter Zeit langten wir vor Ban- der-Abaffie an: wurden ganz gutig und ungehindert eingelassen/ und gleich im ersten Eingang von verschiedenen Euro påern freundlichst begrússet/uud in gelegene Caravanfera eingewiesen. [Finally, on October 15th, early in the morning, we arrived at Bander-Abaffie in good time. We were let in very easily and without hindrance and were greeted very kindly by several Europeans at the first entrance and shown to the nearby caravan site.] » #1609 Schillinger, Franz Caspar, Persianische und Ost-Indianische Reis, Nu¨rnberg, 1707~ » #1609 Schillinger, Franz Caspar, Persianische und Ost-Indianische Reis, Nu¨rnberg, 1707 ~ p. 272-3
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« Banderabassi » in {map#980 Plan particulier du golfe de Perse, depuis les caps de Rosalgatte et de Jasque, jusqu'à Bassora / [d'Après de Mannevillette] ; Dheulland sculp, Anonyme, Guillaume Dheulland, Graveur, 1700-1799, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, GE DD-2987 (6746)} see AHduGP map 74
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« De Bend-Ali au Bander-Abassi il n'y a plus que deux grandes lieues, et la plus grande partie du chemin est un pays de palmiers. [From Bend-Ali to Bander-Abassi there are only two long leagues, and the greater part of the way is a country of palm trees.] » #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. 326
« Le 20, me trouvant pressé par les médecins d'emmener mes gens hors du Bander-Abassi, [On the 20th, finding myself under pressure from the doctors to take my people out of Bander-Abassi,] » #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. 78
SOURCE for Banderabassy
« I left Surat on February 21, 1671, on an English ship bound for the port of Banderabassy, from where I set out by land on March 25, to go as far as Babylon. » #3606 Voyage des Indes orientales, mêlé de plusieurs histoires curieuses, par M. Carré.., Vve de C. Barbin, Paris, 1699 ~ vol. 1 p. 143
SOURCE for Bender Abaʃʃi
« us from the Fort of Bender Abaʃʃi, it we had come there in the Night time, and therefore we parted not from Bendali till next day at half an hour after two in the Morning, and a little after five a Clock we came to the Houſe of a Rhadar near the Town of Bender, » #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 ~ pt. 2 p. 135
SOURCE for Bender gomrow
« The second of August about mid- night, I arrived at Bender gomrow, where the Portugals keepe a Castle with seven or eight Souldiers, within it. And this Bender gomrow, which is on the mayne land, was sometimes the Kings of Lar, and after that Abreham Cans, and so it came to the King of Ormus. » #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. 460
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« 27 avril. Les chameaux sont en effet arrivés, et j'espère enfin quitter Bender-Abassy, où la chaleur est extrême, et l'air excessivement mauvais. [April 27. The camels have indeed arrived, and I hope to finally leave Bender-Abassy, where the heat is extreme, and the air extremely bad. ] » #3241 Aucher-Eloy, Relations de voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838. Part 2, 1843 ~ p. 585
SOURCE for Bender-Abbassi
« Nous arrivâmes à midi à Bender-Abbassi . Le commandant eut la bonté de venir nous recevoir à la porte de sa maison . [We arrived at Bender-Abbassi at noon.] » #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. 390
SOURCE for Camarão
« GOMBROON, n.p. The old name in European documents of the place on the Persian Gulf now known as Bandar ’Abbas, or ’Abbasi. The latter name was given to it when Shah ’Abbas, after the capture and destruction of the island city of Hormuz, established a port there. The site which he selected was the little town of Gambrún. This had been occupied by the Portuguese, who took it from the ‘King of Lar’ in 1612, but two years later it was taken by the Shah. The name is said (in the Geog. Magazine, i. 17) to be Turkish, meaning ‘a Custom House.’ The word alluded to is probably gumruk, which has that meaning, and which is again, through Low Greek, from the Latin commercium. But this etymology of the name seems hardly probable. That indicated in the extract from A. Hamilton below is from Pers. kamrun, ‘a shrimp,’ or Port. camarão, meaning the same. » #379 Yule, Henry and Burnell A. C., Hobson-Jobson, The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1996 ~ p. 384
SOURCE for Combrú
« 1622.—“That evening, at two hours of the night, we started from below that fine tree, and after travelling about a league and a half…we arrived here in Combrú, a place of decent size and population on the sea-shore, which the Persians now-a-days, laying aside as it were the old name, call the ‘Port of Abbas,’ because it was wrested from the Portuguese, who formerly possessed it, in the time of the present King Abbas.”—P. della Valle, ii. 413; [in Hak. Soc. i. 3, he calls it Combu]. » #379 Yule, Henry and Burnell A. C., Hobson-Jobson, The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1996 ~ p. 384
SOURCE for Comerão
« No entanto o rei da Persia tinhase já apoderado em 1614 do forte de Comerão na terra firme, a tres leguas de Ormuz e das ilhas de Baharem e de Queixome, aquella muito rica por causa da pesca das perolas, e esta porque abastecia Ormuz de agua doce e de refrescos. [However, in 1614 the king of Persia had already taken over the fort of Comerão on the mainland, three leagues from Ormuz and the islands of Baharem and Queixome, the former very rich because of pearl fishing, and the latter because it supplied Ormuz with water. candy and refreshments] » #2280 Manoel Bernardes Branco, Portugal e os estrangeiros, Livraria De A. M. Pereira, Lisboa, 1879 ~ p. 315
SOURCE for Gambrun
« Of these possibly Najiram may stand for the island of Jarm on which the later town of Hurmuz stood. Karman is the Carmon of p. 76, n. 1, and p. 77, n. 1, i.e., Gambrun, which is not far from the site of Hurmuz in Mas'udi's time. » #40 Barbosa, Duarte, The Book of Duarte Barbosa, an Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants. Translated by M. L. Dames, Hakluyt Society:Asian Educational Services, London:New Delhi, 1918-21:2002 ~ p.79 notes
SOURCE for Gamron
« bezitten wij min of meer uitgebreide aanteekeningen van de hand der vele Europeanen, die hunne lotgevallen hebben te boek gesteld). Sedert echter Gamron (Bender-Abbas) in de tweede helft der 18de eeuw zijn plaats als [We have more or less extensive notes by many Europeans who have recorded their adventures. However, since Gamron (Bender-Abbas) took its place in the second half of the 18th century] » #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. V
« The path from here to Gamron extends eastward, and partly along the shore. » #3227 LeBrun, Corneille, Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales., Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718 ~ p. 319
« Den 29. dito zyn wy na Bendar Abaafi vertrokken, en tot Gamron (zynde de zelve ſtad, na Abaaz Bandar Abaafi genaamd) gekomen. [On the 29th we left Bendar Abaafi and came to Gamron (the same city called Bandar Abaafi after Abaaz).] » #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. 267
« 23 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. 385
« 6 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. 359
SOURCE for Gamru
« However, in 1622, when Hormuz changed hands, most buildings were destroyed and the Safavides decided to divert all traffic to Gamru, on the mainland opposite of Hormuz. The rise of Gamru, named Bandar 'Abbàs by their new masters, caused the final decline of Hormuz. » #2023 Ralph Kauz and Roderich Ptak, Hormuz in Yuan and Ming sources, Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, ~ p. 29
« The tents were pitched next to the remains of the fortress of Gamrū, the same one that had been so infamously lost three years earlier,(3) the blame for which falls [margin: less heavily] on its defenders [margin: than upon those who failed to come to its aid]. [fol. 192v] The Ambassador was forced to tarry in this location for a few days in the blistering heat because horses had to be purchased for his servants and for the monks he had brought with him for the journey to Lār and Shirāz. fn 3 3 See p. 246, n. 11. » #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. 289
SOURCE for Gamrun
« The great depot for the produce of India, China, and Persia, was then removed to Gombroon* and Ormuz, and has ever since remained in the hands of the Persian monarch. » fn. « * Gamrún, or Gamrú.-E » #253 Kempthorne, Lieut. G.B., Notes on a Survey along the Eastern Shores of the Persian Gulf in 1828, Royal Geographical Society, 1835
SOURCE for Gombroon
« The name Djarun was transferred to the small town and port of Suru or Shahru on the mainland 17 km to the north-west, where goods in transit to or from Hormuz were transhipped; this name became corrupted to Gamru and was further corrupted by Europeans into Gambrun, Gombrun and Gombroon. » #2645 The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, Brill, Leiden, ~ vol. 3 p. 585
« they returning to Gombroon, and we going on Three Pharsangs that Night to Band Ally (1) fn. 1 Band ’All, “the embankment of ’All,” about 9 miles S.W. of Bandar ’Abbas. “The first night (from Gombroon) we rode to Bandally, sixteene English miles (and most part along the Gulph)” » #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. 177
« Fourteene dayes are paſt ſince we entred Gombroon; the place has no fuch Magick to perfwade us to inhabit here. Our end is travell, why ftay we then? » #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. 124
«7th March. In the morning, about 9 in the morning, arrived at Gombroon with the Cheife, Mr. John Eaton Dodsworth, Mr. Dennis, Mr. Beavis and Batson who all came out a little way to meet me.
note: Diary of 6 March 1707/8.
Gombroon, the old name of Bandar 'Abbas. See Yule, Hobson-Jobson, s.v. Gombroon. For a description and illustration of the oity in 1705 see Le Bruyn, II, 73-75. » #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. 44 and 49-50
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« Bandar Abbaffi is made of the destruction of Ormous, Portuguese call it Goumeron, There is Sultan with a small militia, who guards two small Castles: It is at twenty-eight degrees of latitude towards the Arctic Pole that, few people inhabit it in the East, because of the great. heat: The water there is bad and half salty, there is only one beach without a port, where ships arrive from all sides to negotiate. » #3465 Le Gouz de La Boullaye, Les voyages et obseruations du Sieur de La Boullaye-Le-Gouz, gentil-homme angeuin : ou` sont de´crites les religions, gouuernemens, et situations des estats et royaumes d'Italie, Grece, Natolie, Syrie, Perse, Palestine, Karamenie, Kalde´e, Assyrie, grand Mogol, Bijapour, Indes orientales des Portugais, Arabie, Egypte, Holande, grande Bretagne, Irlande, Dannemark, Pologne, isles et autres lieux d'Europe, Asie et Affrique, ou il a` seiourne´, le tout enrichy de belles figures ; et dedie´ a` l'Eminentissime Cardinal Capponi, Chez Geruais Clousier au Palais, sur les degrez de la Saincte Chapelle, Paris, 1653 ~ p. 115
SOURCE for Hurmuz or Bandar
« (35) Kishigan [? sic] to Hurmuzor Bandar (Gämbrun)-6 farsakhs. » #1570 A Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia, and the Papal Mission of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1939, 2 vol. ~ vol. 1 p. 219

R22-025a Hermudar
R22-025a Hermudar : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Hermoodar Bala , Hermudar , Hurmudar , Hurmudar Bala , Hurmurd , Khvormehdan-e Bala , خورمهدان بالا , هرمدر بل , هرمودر , هورمودر ,
VARIANT names: Hermudar ,
SOURCE for Hermudar
« Leaving Chahaly, immediately dropped into the wide bed of a river with high sandstone cliffs on each side. This we followed for 20 minutes, and then ascending the cliffs to the right by a sharp, short pass, got into a lot of curious sandstone hills cut up in every direction into funny forms and peaks by the effects of running water, Followed along a road in the plateau of sandstone, which was nothing but a series of narrow troughs cut by the innumerable feet of donkeys and assisted by rain, for over an hour, and then descending quickly, came on to the sands which surround Bandar Abbas. » #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. 22
« March 1st. Left at 9-5 A.M. Went out by the same road as I came in. Nothing of any consequence to note, except that the place I have hitherto called Chahaly, is really Hormudar, Chahaly being about half a mile to the north.Arrived at Hormudar at 12-45 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. 23

R22-026 A'bambar
R22-026 A'bambar : place IRN
VARIANT names: A'bambar ,
SOURCE for A'bambar
« Arrived at Hormudar at 12-45 P.M.; left at 1-45 P.M., and arrived at the Birka at 4-15 ?.?. Weather at first cloudy, but clear now. The Abambar, which when we passed down was quite empty, is now quite full. » #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. 23

R22-027 Kalah-i-Kazi
R22-027 Kalah-i-Kazi : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Qal`eh-i-Qazi , Qal`eh-ye Qazi , Qal'eh Qazi , Qal'eh Qazi , Qal'eh Qazi-ye Bala , قلئه قازئ بالا , قلئه قازی , قلعه قاضی ,
VARIANT names: Kalah-i-Kazi , Kalah-i-kazi , Kalah-i-Qazi , Kul Kazi , Qal'eh Qazi ,
SOURCE for Kalah-i-Kazi
« At 11-5 A.M. arrived at Kalah-i-Kazi, or, as it is more??generally known, Kalzazi. This village has a fine grove of date?? trees, and there are also numbers of fine grown mimosa dotted about. These, among the young-growing crops give a park-like look to the surrounding country, and a picturesqueness to the village. » #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. 24
SOURCE for Kalah-i-kazi
« For the first 50 miles we passed along and from the sea-coast, in a direction somewhat east of north-east, through a plain country intersected by streams from the neighbouring mountains, very sparsely populated, and containing widely separated patches of wheat or barley cultivation, here and there a field of thriving henna, with occasional date groves. "Kálah-i-kázi " (the Kazi's Fort) and a village named "Takht-i-kushkoh" formed exceptions to the general rule of solitariness; » #1253 Goldsmid, F. J., Journey from Bandar Abbas to Mash-Had by Sistan, with Some Account of the Last-Named Province, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1873, 43:65-83 ~ p. 65
SOURCE for Kalah-i-Qazi
« Our second day took us from Baghu to Kalah-i-Qazi a pleasant ride, now through cultivated date-gardena, now across long stretches of stony "river-bed", lying fan-like at the foot of the mountains, » #3296 Emily Overend Lorimer, letter 'En route from Bandar Abbas to Kerman. The Village of Kishku', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, 1912-13 ~ p. 2
SOURCE for Kul Kazi
Sykes cites Kul Kazi #1511 p. 655
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R22-027a Chahistan
R22-027a Chahistan : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chahestan , Chahistan , Shahestan , چاهستان , شاهستان ,
VARIANT names: Chahistan ,
SOURCE for Chahistan
#1511 p. 655
« At 10-5 A.M. came to the village of ??Chahistan, 11½ miles, breakfasted, and left at 11-25 A.M. Sun very hot. Still keeping along the road went to the north-east, through country still more park-like in appearance. » #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. 24

R22-027b Khushkuh
R22-027b Khushkuh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kashku'iyeh , Kashkuyeh , Khushku , Khvoshkuh , خوشكوه , كشكوئيه ,
VARIANT names: Kashkuiyeh , Khushku ,
SOURCE for Kashkuiyeh
« Kashkuiyeh » in {map#1132 in #1814 Kleiss, Wolfram, Karawanenbauten in Iran. Materialien zur iranischen Archäologie, Materialien zur iranischen Archa¨ologie, D. Reimer, Berlin, 2000 Band 7:Teil 5: ~ fig. Abb. 4 Kartenausschnitt der Provinzen Yazd, Kerman und Hormozgan}
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chk

R22-028 Shamil
R22-028 Shamil : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Shamil , شميل , شمیل ,
VARIANT names: Shamil ,
SOURCE for Shamil
« Shamil » in figure « Marco Polo's Route as fixed by Captain Sykes» in #1511 Sykes, Major P. Molesworth, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan, with special reference to the journeys of Alexander the Great and Marco Polo, Journal of the Society of Arts, London, 1896-7 ~ p. 655
location in «Figure 1. South Persia and the Gulf » in » #1698 Faridany, E. K., Signal Defeat: the Portuguese Loss of Comorão in 1614 and its Political and Commercial Consequences at Portugal, The Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia Conference, 8-9 September 2007 The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Washington, 2007 ~ p. 2
« The Khans of Lar had in former days been paramount to the Kings of Hormuz, but during the period of Portuguese supremacy this position became reversed. Faria y Sousa says: ‘The Kings of Lara always aspired to raise themselves above those of Ormuz, as formerly they had been. He that now reigned resolving to possess himself of all Mogostan, and leading a powerful Army had taken several Towns and kept the Fort of Ormuz in a manner besieged, by hindring the resort of the neighbouring Country People who supply it with Provisions.’ So, assisted by a strong force of Portuguese, the King of Hormuz marched to the fort of Shamil, which was considered impregnable, ‘not so much by Art as by natural Situation’, and after a hard struggle the united forces gained possession of the fort and occupied it; and the investment of Hormuz came to an end. » #187 Wilson, Sir Arnold T., The Persian Gulf, an Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1928 ~ pp. 126-7
« Arrived at Shamil at 2-30 P.M. Distance 22 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. 25

R22-028a Chahkhark
R22-028a Chahkhark : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Chah Kharg , چاه خرگ ,
VARIANT names: Chah Kharg , Chahkhark ,
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« After going 2 miles further, passed another small stream. Two and a half miles beyond this came to the village of Chah?? khark. Three and three-quarter miles further on a third stream?? was passed. The bed of this was some 200 yards across. This part of the country is open, and is known as the Sahra Chahkhark. » #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. 26

R22-029 Gurband
R22-029 Gurband : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Gavarbaad , Gavarband , Gurband , Qal`eh-ye Gurband , قلعۀ گوربند , گواربند , گوربد , گوربند ,
VARIANT names: Gurband ,
SOURCE for Gurband
ref302p98 #302 Carls, Hans-Georg, Alt-Hormoz, ein historischer Hafen an der Strasse von Hormoz (Iran) : Retrospekt und Prospekt zu einem ungelosten archaologischen, geographischen und orientalischen Problem, Minerva Publikation, Munich, 1982 ~
« 11-5 A.M. arrived at Gurband, a thriving village, with a large square káláh, which is gradually falling into ruin. Distance 15 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. 26

R22-029a Dam-i-shahr
R22-029a Dam-i-shahr : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Dom Shahr , Domshahr , Dovom Shahr , Dumshehr , دم شهر , دمشهر , دوم شهر ,
VARIANT names: Dam-i-shahr , Dom Shahr ,
SOURCE for Dam-i-shahr
« At 7-47 A.M. passed on the left hand a good-sized village called Dam-i-shahr, and at 8-5 A.M. a second, called Noband. » #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. 27
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R22-029b Noband
R22-029b Noband : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Noband , Now Band , Now Band-e Qadim , نبند , نو بند , نو بند قدیم ,
VARIANT names: Noband ,
SOURCE for Noband
« At 7-47 A.M. passed on the left hand a good-sized village called Dam-i-shahr, and at 8-5 A.M. a second, called Noband. » #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. 27

R22-030 Minab
R22-030 Minab : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Minab , ميناب ,
VARIANT names: K'u-lu-ma-la , Menao , Mina , Minab , Minao ,
SOURCE for K'u-lu-ma-la
« Minab town, 27° 09' N, 57° 05'E? » #329 Ma Huan, Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan, The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores 1433, Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1970 app. 2 p. 298
SOURCE for Menao
« MENAO, lugar de Minab, em 27° 10' lat. N. e 57° 05' long. E., na margem do rio do mesmo nome, que desagua no estreito de Ormuz. [Diogo do Couto - Da Asia]. » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953 ~ vol. D-N p. 261
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« De haven of burght van Kombru, is twee dagh-reizens van Mina. Zy wierd eertijts alzoo by de Portugeſen genoemt; maer namaels Abaffi geheten, zedert de Perſiaenſe koningh Abbas hen die had afgenomen. [The harbor or fortress of Kombru is two days' journey from Mina. It was once called that way by the Portuguese; but called Namaels Abaffi, the Persian king Abbas said to those who had taken it away.] » #3232 Olfert Dapper, Asia, of Naukeurige beschryving van het rijk des Grooten Mogols, en een groot gedeelte van Indiën ... 't Koningryk van Persie., J. van Meurs, Amsterdam, 1672 ~ p. 73
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« Shahvar in the centre of it. The village seems very fairly prosperous; got out of the grove at 10-5 A.M., and came on to the bed of Minab river, with the town of Mináb on the far side, where we arrived at 10-15 Α.Μ. » #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. 27
SOURCE for Minao
« MINAO, fortaleza de - V. Menao, lugar de. [Diogo do Couto - Da Asia]. » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953 ~ vol. D-N p. 268
« "The town and fort of Minao lie to the N.E. of the ancient city, and are built upon the lowest spur of the Bashkurd mountains, commanding a gorge through which the Rudbar river debouches on the plain of Hormuzdia." In these new and interesting particulars it is pleasing to find such precise corroboration both of Edrisi and of Ibn Batuta. The former, writing in the 12th century, says that Hormuz stood on the banks of a canal or creek from the Gulf, by which vessels came up to the city. The latter specifies the breadth of sea between Old and New Hormuz as three farsakhs. (Edrisi, I. 424; I. B. II. 230.) » #2066 Yule, Henry, Sir, The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian : concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East, J. Murray, London, 1903 ~ vol. 1 p. 111
« 20. The contentions for the succession, between the members of the Muskat family, threw the Gulf into a state of great confusion : the Joasmees captured two vessels (the Shannon and Trimmer), belonging to Mr. Manisty, with public despatches, and treated the commanders with great severity and cruelty ; and a fleet of forty sail surrounded and fired into the Mornington cruiser, but a broadside or two compelled them to sheer off. They were co-operating, also, with Moolla Hussein of Kishm, with whom they were allied, against Bunder Abbas and Minao ; whilst Beder, the successful competitor for the Imaum-ship, was projecting a plan (notwithstanding the support he was receiving from the Wahabees) with the Uttoobees, to destroy the Joasmees, who were at this time in subjection to Abdool Azeez.
21. Syud Beder, on the adjustment of the disputes with Syud Ghes of Sohar, proceeded with a land and sea force for the recovery of Bunder Abbas, Minao, and Ormus, which he effected. » #115 Thomas R. Hughes (ed.), Arabian Gulf Intelligence: Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, New Series, No. XXIV, 1856, Oleander Press Ltd, Cambridge:New York, 1985 ~ p. 115

R22-030a Ju Mahalláh
R22-030a Ju Mahalláh : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Joomahalleh , Jumahalleh , Majban , جمهله , جومحله , مجبان ,
VARIANT names: Joomahalleh , Ju Mahallah ,
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« March 9th.-Left at 6-25 A.M.; day fine; for some little distance the road passed between some low sandstone hills on the left and the date grove on the right; it then cut into the plain, bearing nearly due south; about here there was not much cultivation, the plain was however covered with camelthorn and low scrub. At 7-53 passed through the bed of a small stream without any water in it, in spite of the heavy rain of yesterday. Country very flat, and the going soft. At 10 Α.Μ. halted close to a river and near to a small village called Chah Kambar. 12 P.M. off again. At 12-18 crossed the river at a place called Ju Mahalláh. This is but a small village of 3 or 4 houses. On the hill top, nearest to the ford, is a small round tower in ruins. » #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. 29

R22-031 Kalavy
R22-031 Kalavy : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Golabi , Kalabi , Kalavi , كلاوی , گُلابی , کلابی ,
VARIANT names: Kalabi , Kalavy ,
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« All about here, and right up to Kalavy, the ground is very soft; there is a good deal of salt incrustation about, and near Kalavy it is a regular marsh, » #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. 29

R22-031a Kuhistak
R22-031a Kuhistak : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kuhastak , Kuhestak , Kuhistak , كهستك , كوهستک ,
VARIANT names: Costack , Costaque , Costek , Gostaquem/Goxtaque , Kostek , Kuhestak , Kuhistak ,
SOURCE for Costack
« COSTACK, porto de-v. Costaque, porto de.
COSTAQUE, porto de-Kuhistak, em 26° 48' lat. N. e 57° 04' long. E., na costa persa do estreito de Ormuz, a sueste da ilha deste nome.» #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953 ~ vol. A-C p. 274
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« After this victory he sailed to Costek, whence came out to meet him Amir Aieb Xamçadin, a captain of his own, who had come from Old Harmuz with a considerable reinforcement for his expedition. Thence he sailed for Harmuz, or Gerun, and anchored off Karu, a beach of that isle,(3) on which he landed and took possession of it by force of arms. When his nephews saw that they were ruined, and could neither fight nor fly, they used influential mediators and put themselves in their uncle's hands, asking only that some convenient arrangement might be made for their living. The king agreed to this, and gave them the Isle of Barhen for a residence for themselves and their dependents.
fn. 3 See note on p. 170, supra.-D. F. » #258 Teixeira, Pedro, The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; with his Kings of Harmuz, and extracts from his Kings of Persia. Translated and annotated by W. F. Sinclair ... With further notes and an introduction by D. Ferguson., Hakluyt Society:Kraus Reprint, 1902:1991 ~ p. 183
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« Kūh-i Mubarak et Kuhistak desservaient la côte du Biyābān (178).
fn. 178 Küh-i Mubarak, en avant de l'éminence du même nom, amer familier aux marins (Persian Gulf Pilot, éd. 1864, p. 143), à l'extrémité méridionale du Biyaban. C'est le Cohomo Barque/Comobarque de Duarte Barbosa, etc.; FG, VIII, p. 339. Kuhistak, Gostaquem/Goxtaque chez Barbosa, Kostek chez Teixeira (II, p. 3, 36), etc.; FG, VIII, p. 338. [Kūh-i Mubarak and Kuhistak served the Biyābān coast (178).
fn. 178 Küh-i Mubarak, in front of the eminence of the same name, bitter familiar to sailors (Persian Gulf Pilot, ed. 1864, p. 143), at the southern end of the Biyaban. It is the Cohomo Barque/Comobarque of Duarte Barbosa, etc.; FG, VIII, p. 339. Kuhistak, Gostaquem/Goxtaque at Barbosa, Kostek at Teixeira (II, p. 3, 36), etc.; FG, VIII, p. 338.] » #898 Aubin, Jean, Le royaume d'Ormuz au début du XVIe siècle, Mare Luso-Indicum, Geneva, 1973 ~ p. 108
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« At 10 A.M. got to Kuhistak; waited until the mules came up. They only arrived at 12-30P.M.; every mule showing by the mud on the baggage that it had been down. » #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. 30

R22-031b Chalak
R22-031b Chalak : place IRN
NIMA/GNS feature: STM UFI: -3057761 coordinate: lat 26.780045 long 57.029052
NIMA/GNS names: Rudkhaneh-ye Chalak , رودخانه چالاک ,
VARIANT names: Chalak , Rudkhaneh-ye Chalak ,
SOURCE for Chalak
« We then started ?? again, crossing at it mouth a small stream, Chahlak it is called.??. » #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. 30
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R22-031c Ziaret
R22-031c Ziaret : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Zeyarat , Ziarat , Ziarat-e Bozorg , زيارت , زيارت بزرگ ,
VARIANT names: Ziarat , Ziaret ,
SOURCE for Ziarat
SOURCE for Ziaret
« 1-40 P.M. crossed another stream. At 3 P.M. passed a village in the sandhills to the left, about a mile off called Ziaret. » #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. 30

R22-032 Geru : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Garu , Garuk , Garuq , Gerow , Girau , Goruk , Guru , گرو , گرو , گروق , گروك , گروک ,
VARIANT names: Garu , Geru , Girau , Xilau , Xirau ,
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« At 4-35 P.M. reached the village of Geru. During the march had a great deal of heavy rain.Geru is something like a mile inland among a lot of sandhills. Just on entering the village crossed a small stream. Distance 20 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. 31
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« XIRAU, lugar de Girau, em 26° 35 lat. N. e 57° 06' long. E., no litoral persa de Biyaban, à entrada do estreito de Ormuz. [XIRAU, place of Girau, in 26° 35 lat. N. and 57° 06' long. E., on the Persian coast of Biyaban, at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.] » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953, ~ vol. O-X p. 286
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« XILAU, vila de - v. Xirau, lugar de. [XILAU, village of - v. Xirau, place of.] » #2603 Visconde De Lagoa, Glossario Toponimico Da Antiga Historiografia Portuguesa Ultramarina, Oficina Grafica, Casa Portuguesa Rua Das Gaveas, 1953, ~ vol. O-Z p. 284
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R22-032a Tahruy
R22-032a Tahruy : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Taherani , Taheru , Taheru'i , Tahru'i , Taru , Turu , ترو , طاهرانی , طاهرو , طاهروئی , طاهروئی ,
VARIANT names: Taheru , Tahruy ,
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« 8-30 made a start; for about 2 miles followed the line of some sandhills, then it came on to rain harder than ever. From this point road went out on to an open plain, with lots of camelthorn and low scrub all about. At 9-20 passed the village of Tahruy; » #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. 31

R22-032b Serik
R22-032b Serik : place IRN
NIMA/GNS names: Kaneki , Sirik , سيريک , كنكی ,
VARIANT names: Serik , Sirik ,
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« At 9-20 passed the village of Tahruy; at 10-30 passed another village called Serik. » #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. 31
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