Bannajbur

Bannajbur, later known as Panjgur, lies in the Rakhshan valley of inland Makran. The valley runs between mountain ranges and contains cultivated settlements amid otherwise arid country. Its watercourses feed fields and date groves, while the surrounding hills separate it from the coastal districts to the south. The medieval geographer al-Muqaddasi named Bannajbur as a capital of Makran in 985 and recorded its inhabitants as Balush, an early Arabic reference to the Baloch people. Its history thus reaches back to the first written accounts of Baloch communities in the region.