KAZERON  , a

district and town of the province of Fars in Persia . The district is situated between Shiraz and 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-six villages and a population of about 15,000; it produces rice of excellent quality, cotton, 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 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 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 garden, with noble avenues of orange trees planted by a former governor, 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) .