Bampur

Bampur (Persian: بمپور, also Romanized as Bampūr and Bampoor) is a city in and capital of Bampur District, in Iranshahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,073, in 1,664 families. 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 Murian. The old citadel of Bampur, on a hill about 100 ft. high 3 miles north of the river, fell into ruins. A new fort called Kalah Nasseri, was built at Fahraj, 15 miles further east, in the 1880s. Fahraj, which...