Pur Chaman District
Pur Chaman
پُرچمن | ||
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Country  Afghanistan | ||
| Province | Farah | |
| Population (2020)[2] | ||
| • Total | 115,000 | |
Pur Chaman (also transliterated as Purchaman or Porchaman) is a mountainous
Pashtun minority. The main village, also called Purchaman 33°8′29″N 63°51′41″E / 33.14139°N 63.86139°E is situated at 1431 m altitude.[citation needed
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Religious role
Pur Chaman was the center of operations for the
Aimaq ethnic group until the late 1970s, when the last pir, Baha'uddin Jan, was killed under the Taraki government.[3]
Sources
- UNHCR District Profile, compiled September–October 2004, accessed 2006-06-06 (PDF).
External links
- Map of Farah Province settlements (Pur Chaman District) IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix, March 2018
- http://www.afghanan.se/afghanan_2011/Afghanistan%20Mapper/Farah%20Map/pur_chaman.pdf Map of Settlements] AIMS, May 2002 [dead link]
- Map of Pur Chaman(PDF) Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
References
- ^ "District Names". National Democratic Institute. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ^ "Farah Provincial Profile" (PDF). Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-521-39700-1
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