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Shir may refer to:

  • Shir, Mazandaran
  • Shir, South Khorasan
Shir (Neolithic site)

Shir (German transcription according to the German Oriental Society [DMG]: Šīr/ Arabic: شير) is a Late Neolithic site in western Syria, located 12 km northwest of Hama, capital of the province by the same name. The settlement of Shir is situated upon a 30-m high terrace formation above the Nahr as-Sārūt, a tributary of the Orontes River ( Arabic: Nahr al-‛Asi).

Usage examples of "shir".

She knew very well that if this idea became law, her grandchildren might not be allowed to govern the Shir her family had ruled for thirty Generations.

The flags of each Shir were draped in luxuriant folds behind the chairs where their Council members sat.

Their lands were in the far north of the Shir and they attended the Octagon Court only when ordered.

The Isidirs are all that, with an important city and most of a Shir in their pockets besides.

The terror of local Advocates, she had presided over all major and most minor trials in the Shir for thirty-eight years.

The Ambrais had guided the total life of the Shir, from commerce to opera to farming to bookbinding, from architecture to medicine to cattle breeding.

It was the traditional polling day for every office from Council to Shir to village, for yearly taxes were due then and everyone had to be in town anyway.

Burgoyne had barely had a chance to take note of in passing, wanted to see shir about some damned thing or other.

Web, husband of the most important woman in the Shir, and a famous personage in his own right.

But it was a viable, working community, thick with commerce and Shir government.

Lusian Wentrin of TillinShir was not only infuriated that violence had been done in her Shir, but grieved the death of her nephew Jioram, a Prentice at Mage Hall.

Councillors for each Shir were not on speaking terms they gritted their teeth at being crammed together.

It had recently been discovered, and was not yet common knowledge, that persons fronting for the Dombur Web had bought up dozens of smallhold farms, at least one commercial building in every town in the Shir, and an entire block of prime waterfront businesses in Dinn itself.

Upon this evidence being given in the Roseguard Court of the Shir Lady Mirya Witte pleaded justifiable manslaughter but was convicted on a charge of murder subsequent to which sentence was postponed subject to this present appeal before the High Judiciary.

A Councillor, sitting in the highest seat her Shir and her world could bestow, she was Mageborn.