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DARAB (originally DARABGERD)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 826 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DARAB (originally DARABGERD) , a
district
  of the province of Fars in Persia. It has sixty-two villages, and possesses a hot climate, snow being rarely seen there in winter. It produces a
great
  quantity of
dates
  and much tobacco, which is considered the best in Persia. The town
Darab
 , the
capital
  of the
district
 , is situated in a very fertile plain, 140 M. S.E. of Shiraz. It has a population of about 5000, and extensive orchards of orange and lemon trees and immense plantations of date-palms. Legend ascribes the foundation of the city to Darius, hence its name
Darab
 -gerd (Darius-town). In the neighbourhood there arevarious remains of antiquity, the most important of which
m. S., is known as the Kalah i Dal-a, or citadel of Darius, and consists of a
series
  of earthworks arranged in a circle round an isolated
rock
 . Nothing, however, remains to fix the date or explain the history of the fortification. Another
monument
  in the vicinity is a gigantic bas-relief, carved on the vertical face of a
rock
 , representing the victory of the
Sassanian
  Shapur I. (Sapor) of Persia over the Roman emperor Valerian, A.D. 260.


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