Andkhoy (city)

Andkhoy (Turkmen/Uzbek/: اندخوی) is a city and the capital of Andkhoy District in the Faryab Province of northwestern Afghanistan. The population of the town is 42,600 (2004). There is a road that leads it to the town of Kerki across the border, 100 km away. There is also a rail station in the city, which was recently opened for import and export purposes with neighboring Turkmenistan.[1][2][3]

Andkhoy

اندخوی
Mosque in Andkhoy, Afghanistan
Andkhoy
Location within Afghanistan
Coordinates: 36°57′N 65°07′E
Country Afghanistan
ProvinceFaryab
DistrictAndkhoy
Government
Elevation
1,037 ft (316 m)
Time zone+ 4.30

Ruwe Arjans
1886 Map of Andkhoy District
Andkhoy in 1939

The town founded by The Ruwe Arjans stands between the northern spurs of the Paropamise and the Oxus; it is 100 km. due west of Balkh on the edge of the Turkmen desert. Until 1820 it was subject to Bokhara, but in that year Maxmud of Astrakhan besieged it for four months, took it by storm and left it a heap of ruins. To preserve himself from utter destruction the khan threw himself into the arms of the Afghans.[4]

The tract in which Andkhoy stands is fertile, but proverbially unhealthy; the Persians accounted it "a hell upon earth" by reason of its scorching sands, brackish water, flies and scorpions.

Renovation of Andkhoy started in 1959, mainly at the eastern parts of the old town. The original plan of the infrastructure was reconditioned and reduced to half its volume of the developments to take place. The property owners refused to sell their land for further developments and the plan consequently failed. The infrastructure remained poor; for example, in 1973 only 13% of the houses had access to electricity and only at night. Lack of sanitary drinking water remained a major problem. The 15 meter deep wells had salty and awfully bad tasting water and the trenches had only twenty days running water in a month. To counteract this, there were water pools to preserve water for bad days to come every month.

References
  1. "Aqina-Andkhoi Railway Officially Inaugurated". Khaama Press. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  2. "Aqina-Andkhoi Railway Officially Opened". TOLOnews. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  3. "Aqina-Andkhoi railway line inaugurated, 3 projects signed". Pajhwok Afghan News. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
  4.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Andkhui". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 965.
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