KAZERON

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KAZERON , a

district

DISTRICT

and town of the province of Fars in Persia. The

district

DISTRICT

is situated between Shiraz and

Bushire

BUSHIRE, or BANDER BUSHIRE

. In its centre is the Kazerun Valley with a direction N.W. to S.E., a fertile plain 30 M. long and 7 to 8 m. broad, bounded S.E. by the Parishan Lake (8 m. long, 3 M. broad) N.W. by the Boshavir River, with the ruins of the old city of Beh-Shahpur (Beshaver, Boshavir, also, short, Shapur) and Sassanian bas-reliefs on its banks. There also, in a cave, is a statue of Shapur. The remainder of the district is mostly hilly country intersected by numerous streams, plains and hills being covered with zizyphus, wild almond and oak. The district is divided into two divisions: town and villages, the latter being called Kuh i Marreh and again subdivided into (1) Pusht i Kuh; (2) Yarruk; (3) Shakan. It has

forty

FORTY

-six villages and a population of about 15,000; it produces

rice

of excellent quality,

cotton

COTTON
COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
EDWARD
- EDWARD
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EDWARD
- EDWARD
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
(1813–1866)
COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

, tobacco and opium, but very little corn, and bread made of the flour of acorns is a staple of food in many villages. Wild almonds are exported.
Kazerun, the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

place of the district, is an unwalled town situated in the midst of the central plain, in 29 37' N., 51 43' E. at an

elevation

ELEVATION

of 2800 ft., 70 M. from Shiraz, and 96 m. from

Bushire

BUSHIRE, or BANDER BUSHIRE

. It has a population of about 8000, and is divided into four quarters separated by open spaces. Adjoining it on the W. is the famous Nazar garden, with noble avenues of orange trees planted by a former

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

, Hajji Ali Kull Khan, in 1767. A couple of miles N. of the city behind a low rapge of hills are the imposing ruins of a marble building said to stand over the grave of Sheik Amin ed din Mahommed b. Zia ed din Masud, who died A.11. 740 (A.D. 1339). S.E. of the city on a hugh mound are ruins of buildings with underground chambers, popularly known as Kal`eh i Gabr, " castle of the fire-worshippers."

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