'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOLUME I' [‎350r] (720/820)

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SHARIfAbAD (No. 1)—Lat. 36° 1' 47' 1 '; Long. 59° 29' 0"; Bley. 4,800.
A stage on the road between Meshed and Tnrbat-i-Haidarf, 24 miles
from the former place. It is situated in a hollow, on a stream which is
very often dry. The hills to the east of the village are called Kuh-i-Baza,
those to the south Kuh-i-Dilbaran, those to the west Kuh-i-Blazhan, and
those to the north Kuh-i-Bad.
The village is in the Bivazhan district and contains 120 houses, a post;-
house and two caravanserais. One of these caravanserais, built by Ms-haq
Khan Qaral, A. H. 1224, measures 72 by 33 yards, has 6 towers, and is
endowed with the revenue derived from a hammdm (public bath), and a
quarter share of the qandt of water that supplies the village. The other
caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , built by Husain Khan, Nizam-ud-Dauleh, a former Governor
General of Khorasan, measures 55 by 55 yards, has 6 towers, 22 rooms,
two private courts and good stabling.
There is also a small bazar. Supplies are obtainable in considerable
quantities ; the village possesses 150 cattle, 1,200 sheep and goats, and
the annual production of wheat and barley (f wheat, £ barley) is about
9,900 Indian maunds. There is a water mill capable of grinding 27
Indian maunds in 24 hours. Water-supply from two qandts.
Sharifabad has a certain strategical importance from the fact that it is
the meeting place of nearly all the roads to Meshed from southern and
western 'Persia..—(Schindler ; Yate ; Wanliss, 1903.)
sharIzAb Ad—
A village in Khorasan, on the road between Kakh and Bijistan.—
{Bellew.)
SHAST KULAH—
A stream in Khorasan, 9£ miles west of Astarahad, on the road to Kurd
Mahalleh.—( Namier.)
SHAUGHAN or SHUHAN— Lat. 37° 18' 0^ Long. 56° 53' 0"
A village in northern Khorasan, 28 miles south-west of Bujnurd. It is
a large place of 250 houses of Shadillu Kurds, and used to furnish a guard
of 100 horsemen for the protection of the frontier from Turkoman raids. It
has large gardens and a great extent of unirrfgated wheat lands, ‘ claim,*
giving good crops.
The plateau of Shaughan drains south, extending to Chandir and the
Gurgan. Through it runs the old trade route to Gurgan.— {Napier ;
MacGregor.)
It is situated at the foot of the Aleh Dagh, on the northern ide of the
Shaughan plain.— {Schindler.)
SffAUGHA shAhAbAd—
Ruins of two villages, situated at about 12 miles from Incha on the road
to Armutli.
Shaugha is an important strategic point, at which many roads to and
from Gurgan, the Yamut country, and the Persian settlements to the
south, converge.
48 L B. 4 q