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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

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

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