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KAZERON

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 704 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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district and See also:town of the See also:province of See also:Fars in See also:Persia. The district is situated between See also:Shiraz and See also:Bushire. In its centre is the Kazerun Valley with a direction N.W. to S.E., a fertile See also:plain 30 M. See also:long and 7 to 8 m. broad, bounded S.E. by the Parishan See also:Lake (8 m. long, 3 M. broad) N.W. by the Boshavir See also:River, with the ruins of the old See also:city of Beh-See also:Shahpur (Beshaver, Boshavir, also, See also:short, See also:Shapur) and See also:Sassanian bas-reliefs on its See also:banks. There also, in a See also:cave, is a statue of Shapur. The See also:remainder of the district is mostly hilly See also:country intersected by numerous streams, plains and hills being covered with zizyphus, See also:wild See also:almond and See also: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 See also:forty-six villages and a See also:population of about 15,000; it produces See also:rice of excellent quality, See also:cotton, See also:tobacco and See also:opium, but very little See also:corn, and See also:bread made of the See also:flour of acorns is a See also:staple of See also:food in many villages. Wild almonds are exported. Kazerun, the See also:chief See also: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 See also:elevation of 2800 ft., 70 M. from Shiraz, and 96 m. from 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 See also:garden, with See also:noble avenues of See also:orange trees planted by a former See also:governor, Hajji See also:Ali Kull See also:Khan, in 1767. A couple of See also:miles N. of the city behind a See also:low rapge of hills are the imposing ruins of a See also:marble See also:building said to stand over the See also:grave of Sheik Amin ed din Mahommed b.

Zia ed din Masud, who died A.11. 740 (A.D. 1339).

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