Faizabad
Faizabad or Feyzabad , city (1992 est. pop. 9,098), capital of Badakhshan prov., NE Afghanistan, on the Kokcha River. The chief commercial and administrative center of NE Afghanistan and the Pamir region, Faizabad also has rice and flour mills. Most of its people are Tajiks. In winter the city is sometimes isolated by deep snow. In 1979 it was a focus of Afghan guerrillas attempting to repel the Soviet invasion. Faizabad was taken by Soviet forces in 1980 and became a major Soviet garrison town.
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'Their madness will not work in Faizabad': A few miles from Ayodhya, Faizabad remains unruffled by the tumultous happenings
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...communal tension, lies the sleepy town of Faizabad. It's as special as Ayodhya. For...Ayodhya is the focus of communalism today, Faizabad rejects that dangerous sentiment - in...Khan, convene of the Hilal Committee, Faizabad. "The conflict is between those who...
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Faizabad PRT trains local fire fighters.
News Wire article from: Pajhwok; 4/15/2009; 566 words
; ...Over the past three weeks the Faizabad Provincial Reconstruction Team...been training the Fire Brigade of Faizabad City at the Military Fire Brigades...and confined space procedures. Faizabad founded its fire station several...
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WORLD BANK PROCUREMENT - AFGHANISTAN, FAIZABAD ROADS PROJECT.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News; 5/26/2003; 700+ words
; ...SHIRKHAN BANDAR AND KUNDUZ - TALOQAN - FAIZABAD ROADS PROJECT Sector: Roadways Loan...Shirkhan Bandar and Kunduz Taloqan - Faizabad Roads. The work will include deep rock...Shirkhan Bandar and Kunduz -Taloqan - Faizabad Roads (Packages Nos MPW/137/PKK...
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Bombs assembled at Faizabad?
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/29/2007; 562 words
; ...assembled together in all likelihood at Faizabad. An exhaustive analysis of the pattern...later transported to their destinations. Faizabad, which serves as a gateway to both the...serial blasts spent considerable time in Faizabad and this duration of two days before...
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Tension in Faizabad after attempt on life of priest
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 5/26/2000; ; 481 words
; ...India Abroad 05-26-2000 Tension in Faizabad after attempt on life of priest Tension was running high in Faizabad town last week, where a prominent religious...injured in a bomb blast on May 16. Faizabad is barely four miles from Ayodhya...
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Explosives haul in Faizabad
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 5/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...from a railway station waiting room in Faizabad on Wednesday even as the State Government...devices in the Gorakhpur blasts. After the Faizabad police recovered 10 kg of explosives...any, between recovery of explosives in Faizabad and serial blasts in Gorakhpur on Tuesday...
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1276 hyper-sensitive polling centres in Faizabad.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India); 4/21/2009; 539 words
; Faizabad, Apr. 21 -- Altogether in all 1276...been identified as hyper-sensitive in Faizabad division of Uttar Pradesh. Deputy Inspector...would caste their franchise centres in Faizabad division. Altogether in all 1276 polling...
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UTTAR PRADESH CHIEF MINISTER INAUGURATES FAIZABAD BAR ASSOCIATION CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/11/2006; 700+ words
; ...brought to you by the Hindustan Times FAIZABAD, India, Nov 11 -- The Uttar Pradesh...inaugurating the centenary celebrations of the Faizabad Bar Association here. He announced a...project for potable water and drainage in Faizabad and Ayodhya - would be sought and work...
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'Change Faizabad dist's name to Ayodhya'
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 3/23/2008; 644 words
; ...EXPERT Swami Ramdev wants the name of Faizabad district changed to Ayodhya. He suggested...Mayawati to change the name of district Faizabad to Ayodhya because, "Uttar Pradesh...world as birth place of Lord Ram while Faizabad doesn't have such appeal," he said...
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ELECTION UP FAIZABAD PROFILE TWO LAST FAIZABAD.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India); 4/21/2009; 638 words
; ...this time. It is believed that in Faizabad parliamentary constituency over 1...Singh, BJP's sitting MLA from Faizabad-Ayodhya, Nirmal Khatri of Congress and Bimlendra Mishra, a scion of Faizabad's royal family is BSP candidate...
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Faizabad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Faizabad or Feyzabad , city (1992 est. pop...NE Afghanistan and the Pamir region, Faizabad also has rice and flour mills. Most of...attempting to repel the Soviet invasion. Faizabad was taken by Soviet forces in 1980 and...
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Staples, Suzanne Fisher 1945- (Suzanne Fisher)
Book article from: Something About the Author
...NY), 2000. The Green Dog: A Mostly True Story, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2003. Contributor of short story "Faizabad Harvest, 1980" to Shattered: Stories of Children and War, Knopf (New York, NY), 2002; contributor, sometimes under...
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Oudh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...16th cent.) a province of the Mughal empire, and was subsequently governed by the nawabs of Oudh from their capitals of Faizabad (1724-75) and Lucknow (1775-1856). The annexation (1856) of Oudh as a British province was a contributing cause...
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Hazrat Mahal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...until her death in 1879. Hazrat Mahal's origins are unclear. Apparently she was born into a poor family in the city of Faizabad, located in the state of Oudh. Her parents were obscure; most sources written in English only know her family name, which...
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Afghanistan
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...principal dailies, estimated at no more than 14, were headquartered in Kabul and in such provincial centers as Baghlan, Faizabad, Farah, Gardiz, Herat, Jalabad, Mazar-i-Sharif, Shiberghan, and Qandahar. These provincial papers mostly relied...
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