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BEHBAHAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 655 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEHBAHAN , a walled See also:

town of See also:Persia in the See also:province of See also:Fars, pleasantly situated in the midst of a highly cultivated See also:plain, 128 m. W.N.W. of See also:Shiraz and 3 M. from the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Tab, here called See also:Kurdistan river. It is the See also:capital of the Kuhgilu-Behbahan sub-province of Fars and has a See also:population of about 1o,000. The walls are about 3 M. in circumference and a Narinj Kalah (citadel) stands in the See also:south-See also:east corner. At a See also:short distance See also:north-See also:west of the See also:city are the ruins of Arrajan, the old capital of the province.

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