Sarakhs (Persian: سرخس, also Romanized as Serakhs) is a city in and capital of
Sarakhs County,
Razavi Khorasan Province,
Iran.
Sarakhs was once a stopping point along the Silk Road, and in its 11th century heyday had many libraries and a famous school of architects.
Much of the original city
...see more site is now just across the border at Serakhs in Turkmenistan. According to the most recent national census, in 2006, the city's population was 33,571 in 8,066 families.
Several battles were fought in this area.
According to Ferdowsi's Shahnameh the town has existed since the Afrasiab period and was named for its builder, Sarakhs, son of Godarz, by Keykavus.
Turkmen historians consider the city to have been founded over 2500 years ago.
The Mongols plundered and destroyed Sarakhs in 1220, but it was rebuilt in the mid-19th century by the order of Nasser-al-Din Shah of the Qajar dynasty.
For its first 50 years or so, this resurrected city was thus known as known Nasser's Sarakhs (in Persian:Sarakhs-e Nasseri, Saraxse Nāseri) and was a principally feudal town.
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