Tirah
T H Holdich
Publishing Date: Friday, December 18 2009
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The name Tirah is an elastic geographical expression applied to those highlands divided between the Afridi and Orakzai tribes, which lie between the Khyber and the Kurram. Tirah lies about midway between the two valleys but it dominates neither for the eastern extremity of the great Sufed Koh range and the upper reaches of the Bara valley shut it off from the Khyber whilst the Samana range hedges it in on the south....
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Included Images:
A Camp in Tirah
Road Making
Completed Road, Showing Alternate Loop
General View of Terraced Country
Terraces in Maidan
Showing Scattered Nature of Tirah Villages
Maidan Terracing
Houses in Maidan
Near Arhanga Pass
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