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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 301 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAM , a See also:

town of See also:Persia in the See also:province of See also:Kerman, situated 115 M. S.E. of the See also:city of Kerman at an See also:elevation of 3600 ft. on both See also:banks of the See also:river See also:Barn. Pop. about 13,000. It is the See also:capital of the Barn-Narmashir See also:district and has extensive groves of date-palms and gardens. Outside the town stands the famous citadel with walls 40 ft. in height. This citadel was, even as See also:late as the beginning of the 19th See also:century, the strongest fortified See also:place in Persia, and owed its strength to the Afghans who took Bam in 1719 and were not finally expelled until 18o1. See also:Post and See also:telegraph offices have been established there since 1903.

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