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Encyclopedia Britannica



ASTARABAD

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 791 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASTARABAD , the
capital
  of the province, is situated on the Astar, a small tributary of the Kara Su (Black river), which flows into the Caspian Sea 20 M. W. of the city, and about 18 m. S. of the Gurgan river, in 36 51' N. lat. and 54 26' E.
long
 . It is surrounded by a mud
wall
  about 30 ft. in height and about 31 M. in circuit, but much of the enclosed space is occupied by gardens, n.ounds of refuse, and ruins. At one time of greater size, it was reduced by Nadir Shah within its present limits. Astarabad owes its origin to Yazid ibn Mohallab, who occupied the province early in the 8th
century
  for Suleiman, the seventh of the Omayyad caliphs (715-717), and was destroyed by Timur (Tamerlane) in 1384. Jonas
Hanway
 , the philanthropist (d. 1786), visited the place in 1744, and attempted to open a direct
trade
  through it between Europe and central
Asia
 . Owing to the noxious exhalations of the surrounding forests the town is so extremely unhealthy during the hot weather as to have acquired the title of the " Abode of the Plague." It has post and telegraph offices, and a
population
  of about Io,000. Since 1890 the Turkomans who impeded
trade
  by their perpetual raids have been kept more in check, and with the decrease of insecurity the commercial activity of Astarabad has increased considerably.


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