Bampur

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Bampur is a town in Balochistan, Iran. It is located 330 m. S.E. of Kerman at an elevation of 1720 ft. Its population is about 2000. It is the capital of the province and situated on the banks of the Bampur river which flows from east to west and empties itself about 70 m. W. into a hamun, or depression, 50 m. in length, and called Jaz-morian. The old citadel of Bampur which crowned an elevation about 100 ft. in height, 3 miles north of the river, having completely fallen in ruins, a new fort called Kalah Nasseri, was built at Fahraj, 15 miles further east, in the 1880s. Fahraj, which now has a population of about 2500, has become more important than Bampur. Fahraj, which is also known as Pahura, Paharu, Puhra, is by some identified as the Poura where Alexander the Great halted on his march from India, but others are more in favour of another Fahraj near Barn, or even of Bampur itself.