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KAIN , the name of a sub- province and of aSee also: town of Khorasan, See also: Persia
.
The sub-province extends about 300 M
.
N. to S., from Khaf to See also: Seistan, and about 150 M
.
W. to E., from the hills of See also: Tun to the Afghan frontier, comprising the whole of See also: south-western Khorasan
.
It is very hilly, but contains many wide plains and fertile villages at a mean See also: elevation of 4000 ft
.
It has a population of about 150,000, rears See also: great numbers of camels and produces much grain, See also: saffron, wool, See also: silk and opium
.
The chief manufactures are felts and other woollen fabrics, principally carpets, which have a See also: world-wide reputation
.
The best Kaini carpets are made at
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Darakhsh, a See also: village in the Zirkuh See also: district and 50 M
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N.E. of See also: Birjend
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It is divided into eleven administrative divisions: See also: Shahabad (with the capital Birjend), Naharjan, Alghur, Tabas sunni Khaneh, Zirkuh Shakhan, Kain, Nimbulak, Nehbandan, Khasi, Arab Khaneh or Momenabad
.
The town of Kain, the capital of the sub-province until 1740, when it was supplanted by Birjend, is situated 65 m
.
N. of Birjend on the eastern See also: side of a broad valley, stretching from N. to S., at the See also: base of the See also: mountain Abuzar, in 33° 42' N. and 59° 8' E., and at an elevation of 4500 ft
.
Its population is barely 5o00
.
It is surrounded by a mud See also: wall and bastions, and near it, on a See also: hill rising 5oo ft. above the plain, are the ruins of an
See also: ancient See also: castle which, together with the old town, was destroyed either by Shah Rukh (1404-1447), a son, or by Baysunkur (d
.
1433), a See also: grandson of Timur (Tamerlane), who afterwards built a new town
.
After a See also: time the Uzbegs took possession and held the town until Shah Abbas I
.
(1587-1629) expelled them
.
In the 18th century it See also: fell under the sway of the Afghans and remained a dependency of See also: Herat until 1851
.
A large number of windmills are at See also: work outside the town
.
The great mosque, now in a ruinous See also: state, was built A.H
.
796 (A.D
.
1394) by See also: Karen b..Jamshid and repaired by Yusof Dowlatyar
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