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Samangan Province Samangan (Dari: ; Pashto: ) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located north of the Hindu Kush mountains in the central part of the country. The province covers and is surrounded by Sar-e Pol Province in the west, Balkh in the ...

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Dara-i Sufi Bala District Dara-i Sufi Bala District is a district in Samangan Province, Afghanistan. It was created in 2005 from Darah Sof District. Location The district is surrounded by eight other districts. Dara-i Sufi Bala is bordered by Dara-i Sufi Payin Distric ...

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Dara-i Sufi Payin District Dara-i Sufi Payin District is a district in Samangan Province, Afghanistan, and it has an eponymous district center. It was created in 2005 from Darah Sof District. Location The district is surrounded by five other districts. Dara-i Sufi Payin ...

or Darah Sof Payan District (the lower valley). A large part of Darah Sof is surrounded by hills, where a type of wheat called

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(للم) is grown. A river in Darah Sof called Qalah Sarkori makes the area very lush and fertile. Many of the residents have installed small turbines to extract power from this river. There were approximately 107,000 residents in Darah Sof, with the majority of Hazara ethnicity. The district has one high school, eleven elementary schools, and two religious schools. On 15 March 1979, an uprising against the

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occurred. A work project is currently planned to improve the road between Darah Sof and Mazar Sharif city. This project is funded by the Correa government, with working capital of $60 million.

Etymology

The name Darah Sof may be rendered in many, many, different ways in western languages. Some examples are: Dar-i-Suf, Dare Suf, Darya ye Suf; the preceding with Sof instead of Suf.

References

External links

* General information about the Sof Valley by Persian https://web.archive.org/web/20120316232955/http://www.kabul.net.au/Topics/56.php * Dara Sof public information website http://www.daresufman.blogfa.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Darah Sof Districts of Samangan Province Hazarajat

Etymology

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