Farkhar District

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Farkhar District is a district in Takhar Province of Afghanistan. It is located southeast of Taloqan. The Khanabad River flows inside this valley. Around 99% of the people in Farkhar speak Dari. Farkhar has about 50,000 people and 75 villages. The name Farkhār is generally believed to be Sogdian (and possibly also Khwarazmian) βṛγʾr, the equivalent of the Sanskrit word vihāra (a Buddhist monastery), which it renders in translations of Buddhist texts. Another view is that it is not etymologically connected with vihāra but is a Persian word, originally *paru-khuvāthra "full of happiness". Although Buddhism was eventually replaced by Islam in northern Afghanistan around the 8th century, as late as the 11th century the Khwarazmian scholar al-Biruni wrote of Buddhists: "their monuments, the bahārs of their idols and their farkhārs, are visible on the borders of Khorasan adjacent to India". Farkhar has an area of 1,214 km (469 sq mi), comparatively equivalent to the area of South Andaman Island. The district has no major roadways.