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FARS
  


Name of District. Chief Place or Seat of
Government. 		 Number of 
inhabited
Villages in
District.
Name.  Population. 
 1  Abādeh Iklīd  Abādeh 4,000  33
 2  Abādeh-Tashk  Tashk 600   8
 3  Abarj  Dashtek 2,000   6
 4  Abbāsi
  (1) Bander Abbāsi[1] and villages   Bander Abbāsi 10,000  14
  (2) Issīn and Taziān  Issīn  6
  (3) Shamil  Shamil 1,000  18
  (4) Moghistan  Ziarat 10
  (5) Mināb  Mināb 4,000  23
 5  Afzar  Nīmdeh 12
 6  ʽAlemrūd  Sabzpushan 1,000  16
 7  Arbʽah (the four)
  (1) Deh Rūd
  (2) Deh Ram
  (3) Hengam
  (4) Rudbāl
 Deh Ram 1,500  19
 8  Ardakān  Ardakān 5,000  10
 9  Arsinjan  Arsinjan 5,000  25
10  Asīr  Asīr 500  10
11  Baiza  Baiza 2,000  55
12  Bīdshahr and Juvīm  Bīdshahr 3,000  23
13  Bovanāt  Suriān 500  23
14  Darāb  Darāb 5,000  62
15  Dashti
  (1) Bardistan  Bander Dair 1,000  28
  (2) Buluk  Bushgān 18
  (3) Māndistan  Kāki 1,500  40
  (4) Tassūj  Tang Bagh 500  11
  (5) Shumbeh  Shumbeh 15
16  Dashtistān
  (1) Angāli  Haftjūsh 10
  (2) Ahrom  Ahrom 1,500   5
  (3) Borazjan  Borazjan 4,000  19
  (4) Bushire[1]  Bushire 25,000  20
  (5) Daliki  Daliki 1,500   7
  (6) Gonāvah  Gonāvah 1,000  12
  (7) Hayāt Daūd  Bander Rig 1,000   6
  (8) Khurmuj  Khurmuj 1,000   5
  (9) Rūd Hillah  Kelat Sukhteh 10
  (10) Shaban Kareh  Deh Kohneh 27
  (11) Tangistan  Tangistan 1,000  31
  (12) Zengeneh  Samal 750   4
  (13) Zirāh  Zirāh  6
17  Dizkurd  Cherkes 500   6
18  Famur  Pagah 300   3
19  Ferrashband  Ferrashband 1,000  14
20  Fessa  Fessa 5,000  40
21  Firuzabad  Firuzabad 4,000  20
22  Gillehdār  Gillehdār 1,000  43
23  Hūmeh of Shiraz  Zerkān 1,000  89
24  Istahbanat  Istahbanat 10,000  12
25  Jahrum  Jahrum 10,000  33
26  Jireh  Ishfāyikān 23
27  Kamfiruz  Palangeri 34
28  Kamin  Kalilek 11
29  Kazerun  Kazerun 8,000  46
30  Kavār  Kavār 26
31  Kir and Karzīn  Kir 1,000  23
32  Khafr  Khafr 1,000  41
33  Khajeh  Zanjiran 500  15
34  Khisht  Khisht 2,500  25
35  Khunj  Khunj 1,500  27
36  Kongān  Bander Kongān  12
37  Kuh Gilū and Behbahan  Behbahan 10,000  182 
38  Kurbāl  Gavkan 600  67
39  Kuh i Marreh Shikeft  Shikeft 41
40  Kunkuri  Kazian 29
41  Laristan
  (1) Lar  Lar 8,000  34
  (2) Bikhah Ihsham  Bairam 11
  (3) Bikhah Fal  Ishkenān 10
  (4) Jehāngiriyeh  Bastak 4,000  30
  (5) Shib Kūh  Bander Chārak 36
  (6) Fūmistan or Gavbandi  Gāvbandi 13
  (7) Kauristān  Kauristān  4
  (8) Lingah[1]  Bander Lingah 10,000  11
  (9) Mazāyijan  Mazāyijan  6
42  Mahūr Milāti  Jemalgird  5
43  Maimand  Maimand 5,000  14
44  Maliki  Bander Assalu 1,000  25
45  Mamasenni (Shūlistan)
  (1) Bekesh
  (2) Javīdi or Jāvi
  (3) Dushmanziaris
  (4) Rustami
  (5) Fahlian
  (6) Kākān
 Kal‘ah Safid  8
 6
16
26
 7
 5
46  Māyin  Māyin  8
47  Mervast and Herāt  Mervast 14
48  Mervdasht
  (1) Upper Khafrek
  (2) Lower Khafrek
  (3) Mervdasht
 Fathabad 1,250  14
16
22
49  Meshhed Mader Sulimān  Murghāb 800   6
50  Nīrīz  Nīrīz 9,000  24
51  Ramjird  Jashian 36
52  Rūdan and Ahmedī  Dehbariz 21
53  Sab‘ah (the seven)
  (1) Bīvunj (Bīvanej)  Durz 14
  (2) Hasanabad  Hasanabad  7
  (3) Tarom  Tarun 2,000  15
  (4) Fāraghān  Fāraghān 1,500  13
  (5) Forg  Forg 3,000  18
  (6) Fīn and Guhrah  Fīn 13
  (7) Gileh Gāh (abandoned)  Ziaret 1,000  11
54  Sarchahān
55  Sarhad Chahār Dungeh
  (1) Dasht Ujān
  (2) Dasht Khosro va Shirin
  (3) Dasht Khūngasht
  (4) Dasht Kushk Zard
 Kūshk Zard 31
56  Sarhad Shesh Nahīyeh
  (1) Pādinā (foot of Mount Dinā)
 Khūr
 Hennā
 Samiram
 Felārd
 Germabad
 Vank
24
  (2) Hennā
  (3) Samiram
  (4) Felārd
  (5) Vardasht
  (6) Vank
57  Sarvistan  Sarvistan 4,500  23
58  Shiraz (town) in 1884   [2]53,607  . .
59  Siyākh  Darinjān 13
 60   Simkān  Dūzeh 28

The above sixty districts are grouped into eighteen sub-provinces under governors appointed by the governor-general of Fars, but the towns of Bushire, Lingah and Bander Abbasi, together with the villages in their immediate neighbourhood, form a separate government known as that of the “Persian Gulf Ports” (Benādir i Khalij i Fars), under a governor appointed from Teheran. The population of the province has been estimated at 750,000 and the yearly revenue it pays to the state amounts to about £150,000. Many districts are fertile, but some, particularly those in the south-eastern part of the province, do not produce sufficient grain for the requirements of the sparse population. In consequence of droughts, ravages of locusts and misgovernment by local governors the province has been much impoverished and hundreds of villages are in ruins and deserted. About a third of the population is composed of turbulent and lawless nomads who, when on the march between their winter and summer camping grounds, frequently render the roads insecure and occasionally plunder whole districts, leaving the inhabitants without means of subsistence.

The province produces much wheat, barley, rice, millet, cotton, but the authorities every now and then prohibiting the export of cereals, the people generally sow just as much as they think will suffice for their own wants. Much tobacco of excellent quality, principally for consumption in Persia, is also grown (especially in Fessa, Darab and Jahrom) and a considerable quantity of opium, much of it for export to China, is produced. Salt, lime and gypsum are abundant. There are also some oil

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Are forming separate administrative division of “Persian Gulf Ports.”
  2. ↑ Persian census in 1884; 25,284 males, 28,323 females.
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