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Encyclopedia Britannica



GIRISHK

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 48 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GIRISHK , a
village
  and fort of Afghanistan. It stands on the right bank of the Helmund 78 1n. W. of Kandahar on the road to Herat; 3641 ft. above the sea. The fort, which is garrisoned from Kandahar and is the residence of the
governor
  of the
district
  (Pusht-i-Rud), has little military value. It commands the fords of the Helmund and the road to
Seistan
 , from which it is about 190 M. distant; and it is the centre of a
rich
  agricultural
district
 . Girishk was occupied by the British during the first Afghan War; and a small garrison of sepoys, under a native officer, successfully withstood a siege of nine months by an overwhelming Afghan force. The Dasht-i-Bakwa stretches beyond Girishk towards
Farah
 , a level plain of consider-able width, which tradition assigns as the field of the final contest for supremacy between
Russia
  and England.


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