Takht-e-Sulaiman
Sign in to saveTakht-e-Sulaiman () 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 Khan Subdivision's borders with both South Waziristan and Zhob, Balochistan. At , it is the highest peak in Dera Ismail Khan District.
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- mountain
- Country
- Pakistan
- Elevation
- 3452
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- Sulaiman Mountains
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Takht-e-Sulaiman () 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 Khan Subdivision's borders with both South Waziristan and Zhob, Balochistan. At , it is the highest peak in Dera Ismail Khan District.
==In mythology == thumb|View of the Takht-e-Sulaiman Mountain seen from Derabund in the 19th century Ibn Battuta named Takht-e-Sulaiman as Kōh-e Sulaymān, "Mount of Solomon". A legend, recorded by him, has it that Prophet Solomon climbed this mountain and looked out over the land of Hindustan, which was then "covered with darkness". After staying on the peak, he turned back without descending into this new frontier, and so the peak got named after him.
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