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Word: peshawarun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: City of Death | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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