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PESHIN, or PISHIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PESHIN, or PISHIN , a See also:district of See also:Baluchistan. See also:Area 2717 sq. m. Pop. (19o1), 50,200. It consists of a large See also:plain surrounded on three sides by hills, which formerly belonged to See also:Afghanistan but was ceded to the See also:British by the treaty of See also:Gandamak in 1879. This plain is of considerable strategic importance, as it forms the See also:focus of a See also:great number of routes leading from See also:Sind and the See also:Punjab frontier districts to See also:Kandahar, and is intersected by the Sind-Peshin railway. The agricultural See also:wealth of Peshin, and consequently its revenues, have increased greatly under British See also:administration.

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