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Encyclopedia Britannica



FARAH

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 175 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FARAH , a town of Afghanistan. It is situated on the river that bears its name on the main road between Herat and Kandahar, 16o m. S. of Herat and 225 M. W. of Kandahar. It is a place of some strategical importance, as it commands the approaches to India and
Seistan
  from Herat. The town (2460 ft. above sea-level) is a square walled enclosure
standing
  in the middle of the plain, surrounded with a walled rampart. Owing to its unhealthiness it is now almost deserted, being only occupied by the Afghan
regiment
  quartered there. It is a place of
great
  antiquity, being probably the Phra mentioned by Isidore of Charax in the 1st century A.D. It was sacked by the armies of ienghiz
Khan
 , and the survivors transported to a position farther north, where there are still
great
  ruins. The
population
  returned to the
original
  site after the destruction of the medieval city by Shah Abbas, and the city prospered again until its bloody siege by Nadir Shah. Subsequently under constant attacks it declined, and in 1837 the
population
  amounting to 6000 was carried off to Kandahar. The sole industry of the town at present is the manufacture of gunpowder. In the districts
east
  of Farah are to be found the most fanatical of the
Durani
  Afghan tribes.


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