Farkhar District is a district of Takhar Province, Afghanistan. It is located southeast of Taloqan. It is a scenic valley surrounded with high mountains. The Khanabad River flows inside this valley. People from all around Afghanistan come to this valley for sightseeing. Around 99% of the people in Farkhar speak Persian. Farkhar's population is about 40,000 people. Huti village is one of the least populous but one of the amazing and fantastic villages of Farkhar district located on north side of the district Farkhar with an amazing view of the Farkhar river. In the summer this village looks like paradise. People from Takhar province and around Afghanistan come to this village for sightseeing and picnics. 100% people of the village speak the Persian language.
Climate
Towns and villages
The major villages of this district are: Shaktan, Shingan, Nahr Ab, Dasht e Robat, Abi Dara, Kurani, Pire Farkhar, Shori, Dehak, Jangle Gaza, Dasht e Konj, Chashma e Garmuk, Shahre Farkhar, Kundal, Mazre Shikh, Khanaqa, Khurmab, Ardishan, Kashan, Sare Kham, Singan, Pyani, Dahne Zure, Khafdara, Sang e Atash, Khawaki, Farhangurd, Khusdeh, Darbaho, Huti, Warook, Ghashob, Yookh, Lujdeh and Mashtan. Farkhar was a major centre of jihadist opposition to the Soviet occupation. It was the main training centre of the Afghan leader Ahmad Shah Masoud.
Origin of name
The name Farkhār is generally believed to be the Sogdianβṛγʾr, the equivalent of the Sanskritwordvihāra, which it renders in translations of Buddhist texts. Another view is that it is not etymologically connected with vihāra but is a Persian word, originally *paru-khuvāthra "full of happiness". Although Buddhism was eventually replaced by Islam in northern Afghanistan around the 8th century, as late as the 11th-century the Khwarazmian scholar al-Biruni was able to write in a discussion of Buddhists: "their monuments, the bahārs of their idols and their farkhārs, are visible on the borders of Khorasan adjacent to India".
In Persian poetry, the phrase rtl=yes bot-e Farxār "buddha of a temple" or "idol from Farkhar" became proverbial for a beautiful person. One of the earliest poets to use it was Manuchehri, an 11th-century poet at the court of Mas'ud I of Ghazni, who wrote: In another example the poet Khwaju , praising a handsome Turk, writes:
