BANDER LINGAH

bander lingah, or linga, a town of persia on the northern shore of the persian gulf and about 300 m. by sea from bushire, in 26deg 33' n., 54deg 54' e. pop. about 10,000. it forms part of the administrative divisions of the "persian gulf ports," whose governor resides at bushire. the annual value of the exports and imports from and into bander lingah from 1890 to 1905 averaged about l800,000, but nearly half of that amount is represented by pearls which pass in transit from the fisheries on the arab coast to bombay. like many other persian gulf ports, bander lingah was for many generations a hereditary patrimony of the sheikh of an arab tribe, in this case the juvasmi tribe, and it was only in 1898 that the arabs were expelled from the place by a persian force. it is the chief port for the persian province of laristan (under fars), and has a thriving trade with bahrein and the arab coast. it has a british post office, and the steamers of the british india company call there weekly. of the 133,000 tons of shipping which in 1905 entered the port 104,500 were british. banderole (fr. for a "little banner"), a small flag or streamer carried on the lance of a knight, or flying from the mast-head of a ship in battle, &c.; in heraldry, a streamer hanging from beneath the crook of a bishop's crosier and folding over the staff; in architecture, a band used in decorative sculpture of the renaissance period for bearing an inscription, &c. bannerol, in its main uses the same as banderole, is the term especially applied to the square banners carried at the funerals of great men and placed over the tomb.