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Jalalabad

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jalalabad , city (1979 pop. 53,915), capital of Nangarhar prov., E Afghanistan, near the Khyber Pass . The city dominates the entrances to the Laghman and Kunar valleys and is a leading trading center with India and Pakistan. Oranges, rice, and sugarcane grow in the fertile surrounding area, and the city has cane-processing and sugar-refining as well as papermaking industries. Jalalabad is a military center and a winter resort. Present-day Jalalabad was the major city of the ancient Greco-Buddhist center of Gandhara . Babur, founder of the Mughal empire of India, chose the site for the... Read more
Jalalabad
Jalalabad • ad , add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, gad, glad, grad...tad, trad •chiliad • oread • dryad , dyad, naiad, triad •Sinbad • Ahmadabad • Jalalabad •Faisalabad • Islamabad • Hyderabad ... Read more
Sale
...founded in 1845 and named after Major General Sir Robert Sale (1782–1845), a British officer who led the defence of Jalalabad in Afghanistan in 1841–2 with great resolution and died of his wounds during the Sikh wars in 1845.2. UK (England... Read more

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