Drazanda (also spelled Darazinda or Drazinda) is a main village or small town in

Dera Ismail Khan District Dera Ismail Khan District (Urdu and , ), often abbreviated as D.I. Khan is a district in the Dera Ismail Khan division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital of the district is the town of Dera Ismail Khan. The district has ...

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province. The population is 8,842, according to the

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. The

Takht-e-Sulaiman Takht-e-Sulaiman (, Balochi: تخت ء سلیمان; "Throne of Solomon") is a peak of the Sulaiman Mountains, located near the town of Darazinda in the Dera Ismail Khan Subdivision of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is close to Dera Ismail ...

(Solomon's throne), the highest peak of the

Sulaiman Mountains The Sulaiman Mountains, also known as Kōh-e Sulaymān, Kasē Ghrūna Da Suleiman Ghruna (Pashto: د كسې غرونه ، د سلیمان غرونه; "Mountains of Qaes/Kasi and Solomon") ( Balochi:; "Mountains of Solomon") are a north–south ex ...

is located near Drazanda. At , it is the highest peak in Dera Ismail Khan District and the greater Shirani region. 14th-century

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explorer

Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta (; 24 February 13041368/1369), was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar. Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Iberian Peninsula. Near the end of his life, Ibn ...

named Takht-e-Sulaiman as ''Kōh-e Sulaymān'', "Mount of Solomon".

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Populated places in Dera Ismail Khan District {{DeraIsmailKhan-geo-stub