Aybak (city)
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ایبک Aybak |
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 16 ' N , 68 ° 1' E | ||
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| Country | Afghanistan | ||
| Samangan | |||
| district | Aybak | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | AF-SAM | ||
| height | 959 m | ||
| resident | 33,906 (June 2020) | ||
Aybak or Aibak , today Samangan , ( Uzbek : "cave dwellers") is the capital of the northern Afghan province of Samangan and the name of the surrounding district. The city is located on the Cholm River at an altitude of 959 meters and has almost 34,000 inhabitants in the city and 84,631 inhabitants in the district.
The main commodities in Aybak include wheat , almonds and pistachios .
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About 2 km southeast of Aybak is the Buddhist archaeological site of Tacht-i Rustam .
On July 14, 2012, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in Aybak, killing at least 23 people and injuring over 60. The bride's father, field commander and member of parliament Ahmad Chan Samangani , the provincial head of the secret service Chan Mohammad and a division commander of the armed forces were there among the dead. The Taliban denied by its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid responsibility for the attack.
After the end of NATO's Resolute Support mission , the city was captured by the Taliban on August 9, 2021.
Web links
- Rehabilitation of the Aybak City Distribution System (English; PDF; 791 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Estimated Population of Afghanistan 2020-21. NSIA, June 2020, accessed February 4, 2021 .
- ↑ a b L. Dupree: Aybak. In: Encyclopaedia Iranica . Ehsan Yarshater , December 15, 1987, accessed April 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Data on Aybak from Falling Rain Genomics, accessed on July 13, 2010.
- ↑ Bloody wedding. In: the daily newspaper . July 14, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2012 .
- ↑ 23 dead in attack on wedding party. In: The Standard . July 14, 2012, Retrieved July 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Taliban conquer provincial capital again - UN extremely concerned In: Salzburger Nachrichten , August 9, 2021.