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TASHKURGHAN

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 437 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TASHKURGHAN , or KxuLm, a khanate and town of Afghan
Turkestan
 . The khanate lies between Kunduz and
Balkh
 . The ancient town of Khulm stood in the
Oxus
  plain, surrounded by orchards of famous productiveness; but it was destroyed by Ahmad Shah Abdali, who founded Tashkurghan in the middle of the 18th
century
 , and took all the inhabitants away from Khulm to populate it. Ancient Khulm is now only a
mass
  of ruins; but Tashkurghan, lying two or three miles to the
south
  of it, has become the
great
 
trade
 -mart of Afghan
Turkestan
  and second only in importance to Mazar-i-Sharif, the military centre of the province; while it is much larger and more prosperous than the latter place. At Tashkurghan the caravans from India and Bolthara meet, and from here the merchandise is distributed all over the country. A hill fortress dominates the town and overlooks the debouchment of the road from
Haibak
  and Kabul into the plains of the
Oxus
 .


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