Quchan

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Quchan (also Quchon and Kuchan) (Persian: قوچان ) is an Iranian district in the in the northern part of Razavi Khorasan Province, in northeastern Iran. It is located due south of the border city of Ashgabat.

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[edit] Population and tribes

As of 2005, Quchan was estimated to have a population of 105,352.

Quchan (also Ghoochan, Quchon and Kuchan) is in the north-east of Iran in Razavi Khorasan Province at an elevation 1,149 meters above sea level north of the Shah Jahan Mountains. It is located due south of the border of Turkeminstan . The region produces grain and wine.Quchan is connecte by road to Mashhad 125 km southeast, and Turkmenistan 100 km north. Quchan has suffered from many earthquakes, and the town was relocated 13 east of the original town in 1895

[edit] Geography

It is a mountainous region.

[edit] Notable inhabitants

[edit] History

A devastating earthquake in 1893 killed 10,000 residents in Quchan. The U.S. press reported on January 28, 1894 that, "The bodies of ten thousand victims of the awful disaster have already been recovered. Fifty thousand cattle were destroyed at the same time. The once important and beautiful city of twenty thousand people is now only a scene of death, desolation, and terror."[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^  Allen, Thomas Gaskell Jr; Sachtleben, William Lewis (1894). Across Asia on a Bicycle, 1903, New York: The Century Co, 110. 
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