Jabal us Siraj

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Jabal us Siraj

 

a city in the central part of Afghanistan. Population, approximately 10,000.

The city is one of the country’s important industrial centers. It has a cotton mill, a cement plant, and a small hydroelectric power plant.

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