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Encyclopedia Britannica



LAR

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 209 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LAR , a city of Persia,
capital
  of Laristan, in 27 30' N., 530 58' E., 18o m. from Shiraz and 75 from the
coast
  at Bander Lingah. It stands at the foot of a
mountain
  range in an extensive plain 'covered with palm trees, and was once a flourishing place, but a large portion is in ruins, and the
population
  which early in the 18th century numbered 50,000 is reduced to 8000. There are still some good buildings, of which the most prominent are the old bazaar consisting of four arcades each 18o ft.
long
 , 14 broad and 22 high, radiating from a domed centre 30 ft. high, an old stone mosque and many cisterns. The crest of a steep limestone hill immediately behind the town and rising 150 ft. above the plain is crowned by the ruins of a castle formerly deemed impregnable. Just below the castle is a well sunk 200 ft. in the
rock
 . The tower-flanked mud
wall
  which surrounds the town is for the most
part
  in ruins.


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