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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 175 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FARAH , a See also:

town of See also:Afghanistan. It is situated on the See also:river that bears its name on the See also:main road between See also:Herat and See also:Kandahar, 16o m. S. of Herat and 225 M. W. of Kandahar. It is a See also:place of some strategical importance, as it commands the approaches to See also:India and See also:Seistan from Herat. The town (2460 ft. above See also:sea-level) is a square walled enclosure See also:standing in the See also:middle of the See also:plain, surrounded with a walled rampart. Owing to its unhealthiness it is now almost deserted, being only occupied by the Afghan See also:regiment quartered there. It is a place of See also:great antiquity, being probably the Phra mentioned by Isidore of Charax in the 1st See also:century A.D. It was sacked by the armies of ienghiz See also:Khan, and the survivors transported to a position farther See also:north, where there are still great ruins. The See also:population returned to the See also:original site after the destruction of the See also:medieval See also:city by Shah Abbas, and the city prospered again until its bloody See also:siege by See also:Nadir Shah. Subsequently under See also:constant attacks it declined, and in 1837 the population amounting to 6000 was carried off to Kandahar. The See also:sole See also:industry of the town at See also:present is the manufacture of See also:gunpowder.

In the districts See also:

east of Farah are to be found the most fanatical of the See also:Durani Afghan tribes.

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