Kham-e Bahar

Kham lies on the Panj, the upper course of the Oxus, in the mountain country of Darvaz. Along with Qal'ai Khumb farther north, it was one of the principal towns of a principality that held lands on both sides of the river. In the mid-seventeenth century the rulers of Darvaz expelled Uzbek forces and established an independent line of shahs. Their chief rivals were the rulers of Badakhshan, with whom they repeatedly fought over neighbouring Ragh.