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DAMGHAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAMGHAN , a See also:

town of See also:Persia in the See also:province of Semnan va Damghan, 216 m. from See also:Teheran on the high-road thence to See also:Khorasan, at an See also:elevation of 3770 ft. and in 36° 1o' N., 54° 20' E. Pop. about ro,000. There are See also:post and See also:telegraph offices, and a See also:great export See also:trade is done in pistachios and almonds, the latter being of the See also:kind called Kaghazi (" of See also:paper ") with very thin shells, famous throughout the See also:country. Damghan was an important See also:city in the See also:middle ages, but only a ruined See also:mosque with a number of massive columns and some See also:fine See also:wood carvings and two minarets of the rrth See also:century remain of that See also:period. Near the city, a few See also:miles See also:south and south-See also:west, are the remains of Hecatompylos, extending from Frat, 16 m. south of Damghan, to near G{lsheh, 20 m. west. Damghan was destroyed by the Afghans in 1723. On an See also:eminence in the western See also:part of the city are the ruins of a large square citadel with a small See also:white-washed See also:building, called Molud Khaneh (the See also:house of See also:birth), in which Fath See also:Ali Shah was See also:born (1772).

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