Sarakhs, Iran

Iran

Sarakhs, Iran shares 39 connections with 785 other places across 10 topics, mostly history, with smaller clusters on government, transportation and military events. It often appears alongside Herat, Baghdad and Samarkand. In 893, the Bukhara slave trade was introduced to Sarakhs, becoming the main source of income and trade of the Samanids until the Mongol conquest. Rail traffic from Turkmenistan changes bogies there at a break-of-gauge crossing.