Shebrye, or haudag (a kind of palanquin
carried by a camel), 683, 688
Shedad Ben ’Ad’s palace (in Akhaf), 638
Sheep, long-tailed, of Arabia, 587
Sheeraunees, Afghan tribe, 176
Shehr ’All, district, 350
’Ali Tagh, - or Gouger-houad, near
Mar’ash (part of Taurus), 293, 351
El, port of Hadramaut, 636
Beg, town, lake, and sanjak of, 344
or Shahr, port of, population, &c., of,
636
, capital of the district of Shehr, 637
Abu, or Bushire, port, 209
-—— Ak, plain and sanj&k, 344, 345
, lake (in Koniyeh eyalet), 346
, town, once Philomelum, 346
Akli Tagh, branch of the Taurus,
294
Allah, town (in Aidin a’yanlik), 309
Allah, or Cogamus river (in Aidin
a’y&nlik), 310
, lake of, 346
■ Beg, sanjak of, 344
Ov&h (on the eastern Jaih&n), 298,
299
Shehrsor, district, taxes of, 258
Sheibani, valley, 467
Sheikh, Bir-es, 601
, ’Adi (part of the Yezidi), 113
, people, remains of Sabeanism among
the, 113
— al-Islam (ruler of the faith), 86, 233
, choice of the, 675
-—— An (chief of the Izedi), 113
— —, Ismaili (tribe of Kurds), 251
SheikMwi, mountains (in Shehr district,
territory of Hadramaut), 638
Sheiks in Arabia, their power and manner
of nomination, 675
, duties of, 675
Sheik’s protection effectual, 676
Sheity, or Shutite, canal (the Muchircan of
Edrisi, near Shuster), 198
Shek&gi, tribe of Kurds (in Azerbaijan),
251
Shekdof (a kind of large pannier carried
by a camel), 688
Sheki, khanat (part of Shirvan), 130, 136,
138
— , mountains of, 137
Shekrateyn, village (in Asir, district of
Yemen), 614
Shem, Chaldeans from, 92
Shemah Tagh, Mount Flambeau (westward
of Guzun), 292
Shemiramgerd, ancient city (of Armenia),
102
Shemitic, people and language of, 83
Shems, Shebeat-ben-, tribe (in the Chaab
country), 251
Shemshat, plain (in Kharput district), 271
Shemsia, a sect (of the Ansarians), 542
Shemskein, or Eshmiskin, town (on the plain
of the Haouran), 511
Sheree, town (of Kach’h), 182
Sheri’at-el-Kebir, or river Jordan, 400
Sheri’at-el-Mundhur, or Jarmuk and ancient
Hieromax, affluent (of the Jordan), 401,
507
Sherif-eddin founds an academy in the town
of Kaukeban (in Yemen), 616
Sherrah, civil courts in the cities of Persia,
233
Sheryan Tdgh (peak of the Anti-Taurus),
68
Shevis Kari, or Dariyeh (the Caucasian
gates), 158
Shi’ah, belief, tenets, &c., of, 85, 86
Shibam, capital (of Hadramaut), 637
Shieban, mount (northward of San’a), 622
Shinar, plain, 117, 119
Shinkis, a tribe (of Kurdistdn), 128, 250
Shiraz, basin of, 73
route through the Persian Apennines,
description of, 207, 208
, city, description of, 209
, the Ark or citadel of, 209
, commerce of, 209
Shirazi, seventh kind of coffee in Arabia,
621
Shirvan, territory of, 129
, position of, 136
, between the river Kur and Azerbaijan,
136
, superficies of, 136
, soil of, 137
, northern valley of, 137 '
, central valley of, 137
, third valley of, 137
, three climates of, 138
-, climate of the plain of, 138
, second and third climate of, 138
<——, wild and tame animals of, 138
, fisheries of, 138
, annual amount of the exports and imports
of, 138
■■■■, Shamahkee, capital of, 138
, towns of, 138
■t:*?--., people of, 139
, ancient city of, 139
, population of, 139
, government of, 140
Tartar language prevails in, 140
, manners and customs of the people of,
140
, name of, dates from the conquest by
Khusrau Nushiravan, 141
Shirwan, Abi, principal source of the river
Diyalah, 33, 34, 35, 194
Shiz, ruins, now Takhti Suleiman, once
Gaza, Azata, and the Atropatenian Ecba-
tana, 220, 221
Shohata, village (in Asir, district of Yemen),
614
Shohba (Dionysius), seat of the Druses of the
Haouran, 509
Shooshooah, island (in the Red Sea), 570
Shorawuk, valley (in Afghanistan), 167
Shoropan, district (of Imiretia), 149
Shunda, town (of Lower Chaldea), 94
Shus, or Sus, Kush, and Kushasdan (land of
the Sun and of the Magi), (the territory
within the river Araxes), 274, 280
Shiishii only town of Karabah, 143
Shuster, city, and population of, 173, 202,
203
Shuyukh, Sheikh-el-, chief town of the
Arabs (on the Lower Euphrates), 59, 60,
94, 111
Siale, Arabs (of El-Ledja), 504
Sib, or Siba, port (in Batna, district of
’Oman), 644
Sibma, ruins, now Om-el-Rassass (eastward
of the Dead Sea), 515
Sichem, or Sychar of Scripture, Nabulus or
Neapolis of the Romans (in Samaria), 490
Sidaka, river, affluent (of the Great Zab),
24
Sidd, Nimrud, or Chalu (the Median Wall),
30
Side, or the Eski Adalia of the Turks (in
Tekeh district),339
Sidon the Great, remains of the port of, 469
, description of, 470
Sidra, book of the Sabeans (in Chaldee), in
Sidyma, probably Cragus (in the valley of
the Xanthus), 342
Sigeum, ruins of (coast of Troy), 317
Signakh, district (of the Caucasus), and
population of, 153, 157
Sihun, now the capital of Hadramaut* 637
Silandus, ruins (at Selenti, in Kermiyan
eyalet), 335
Silasil4, tribe (of Luri Kuchuk), 250
Siliski, mines (near Divrigi), 305
Silver mountains, Jebel-abad (in Laristan),
226
Siman, Jebel, 386
Sim&wal-su, skirting the Demirji range, 322
Simois, or Mendereh, river (of Troy), 317
Simoom, “ samiel” or “ samm” of Arabia,
the “ khamsin” of Egypt, and “ harmat-
tan” of Guinea, 578
, Niehbuhr’s mistake concerning it, 579
, account given of its effects by the
Arabs, 579
Simserah-il-Mekkayeh, or Khans of Yemen,
621
Sinai, and continuous mountain chain from
the Taurus, 562
, mount, view from, 563
Sinde, territory, taxes of, 259
Singerli, town (in Khodavendi-k&r), 322
Sin jar, town, plain, and mountains of, 48,
50, 51, 111, 117
Sinub (Sinope), (a’yanlik of Kastamuni),
330
Sippara, now Siferah (near Feliyah), 118
Sipylus, Mount (southward of Manissa, in
Saru-Khan), 310, 311
Sir, near Mount Aja, and caves (in Jebel
Shammar), 628
, ’Ain-el-, village and spring (in El
Woschem), district of Nedjd), 629
——, Ser&, peak (of the Anti-Taurus), 18, 69
Sirab, or Mirage, of Arabia, 572
Sirah, island (at ’Aden), description of, 167
Siral, town (of Azerbaijan), 219
Sirdars, Afghan chiefs, 182
Sirgian, town (of Carmania Felix), 231
Siril Alsaghabe, or the “ golden throne,” a
name given by the Persians to the Albanian
pass, 134
Sírwán, ruins (near the termination of the
river Kerrind, affluent of the Kerkhah),
194
Sis, castle and town (in Ich-ili), 352, 355
, Kara (in Ich-ili), 299, or 300
Sittacene, province (of Assyria Proper), 120
Siunik’h, or Suaies (province of Armenia),
102
Sivas, or Suas, district, position, &c., of, 300
— r-, mountains of, 300
, city (once Cabira), 3, 272, 306
Siverik, town (in Upper Mesopotamia), 70,
111
Síwístán, or Drangiana, province, position,
&c., of, 168
Siyah, Ruh or Diz Siyah, now Khorram-
ábad (in Luristan), 206
band, or Sháh-band, province (of
Herat), 164
Slavery mild in Arabia, 674
Small-pox and fever in the East, 534
Smúrmúr, or “ locust-eater” of the Syrians,
443
Smurrin, village (southward of Jebel Haouran),
509
Smyrna, city of, 311
, harbour of, 312
, description of, 312
, people of, 312, 313
, population of, 313
, derivation of the name of, 313
, ancient city of, 313
I climate of, 314
Soap of Arabia, 593
Sobeyh, Wadi (in Nedjd), 609
, district (S.W. side of Nedjd), 632
Socotra, island, 570
Soda, one of the Kuria Muria islands, 639
Sodom, the ’Osher, or apple of, 404
, destruction of, 404
Sof, Abii, village (on the Lower Euphrates)
36
Sdgat, or Shughut, plain and a’yánlik of (in
Sultan Oni), 333
Sóghánlí-sií, affluent (of the Filiyas), 321,
328
Soghd mines, taxes on the, 259
Sogher, plain (in Kir-Shehr district, on the
Halys), 305
Soghlah, lake, also called Se'idi-Shehr (eyalet
of Koniyeh), 346
:, government (in Aidin a’yánlik district,
now Smyrna), 309
Soghné, town (in the desert of Palmyra),
526
Soham, town (in Batna, district of ’Oman),
645
Sohar, or ’Omán, town (in Batna, district of
’Oman), 645
Solam, or Shunem, village (of Samaria), 346
Solduz, plain (near lake Urumiyah), 272
Soleima, valley, &c. (in the district of Kes-
ruan), 466
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