Samangan

سمنگان Samangan
Basic data
Country	Afghanistan
Capital	Aybak
surface	11,261.9 km²
Residents	387,900 (2015)
density	34 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	AF-SAM
politics
governor	Khairullah Anush
Districts in Samangan Province (2005)

Coordinates: 36 ° 0 ′  N , 68 ° 0 ′  E

Samangan Province

Samangan ( Pashtun سمنګان, Dari سمنگان, DMG Samangān ) is a province ( velayat ) in northern Afghanistan and borders the provinces of Balkh , Kunduz , Baghlan , Bamiyan and Sar-i Pul (clockwise, starting in the north).

The capital of the province is Aybak . The province has 387,900 inhabitants.

In April 2010, an earthquake struck Samangan Province, killing people, injuring them and destroying homes.

mythology

Samangan has found its way into the Iranian national epic Shahname von Firdausi . In the story of Rostam and Sohrab , Samangan is mentioned as a borderland between Iran and Turan . The daughter of the King of Samangan, Tahmine, falls in love with Rostam. Nine months after a night of love, their son Sohrab, who grows up without his father, is born. When the grown son is looking for his father in Iran, he is embroiled in a fatal duel and stabbed by his father. Rostam recognizes the dying Sohrab in his arms by a bracelet that he once gave Tahmine.

Administrative division

Samangan Province is divided into the following districts:

• Aybak
• Darah Sof Balla
• Darah Sof Payan
• Feroz Nakhchir
• Hazrat Sultan
• Khuram wa Sarbagh
• Ruyi you Ab

Web links

Commons : Samangan Province  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Afghanistan. In: citypopulation.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Deaths in earthquake in Afghanistan. NZZ Online. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
3. ^ Friedrich Rückert : Rostem and Suhrab. A hero story in 12 books. Reprint of the first edition from 1838. epubli, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-571-3 . (Details)