Old Kandahar information

Old Kandahar Old Kandahar (locally known as Zorr Shaar; Pashto: زوړ ښار, lit. 'Old City', also Shahr-i-Kona (Dari: شهر کهنه) in Dari) is a historical section...

Kandahar (English: /ˈkændəhɑːr/; Pashto: کندهار, romanized: Kandahār; Dari: قندهار, romanized: Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south...

which was held by Hussain Hotaki. It took place in the Old Kandahar area of the modern city of Kandahar in Afghanistan and lasted until March 24, 1738, when...

Kandahār (Pashto: کندهار; Kandahār, Dari: قندهار; Qandahār) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country...

The Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, also known as the Kandahar Edict of Ashoka and less commonly as the Chehel Zina Edict, is an inscription in the...

ancient area of Old Kandahar (known as Zor Shar in Pashto, or Shahr-i-Kona in Persian) in Kandahar in 1963. It is thought that Old Kandahar was founded in...

Kandahar. Chil Zena was located on the northern side of the old citadel of Old Kandahar, destroyed by Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia in 1738. The carving...

June 1747, he was appointed as King of the Afghans by a loya jirga in Kandahar, where he set up his capital. Primarily with the support of the Pashtun...

inscription, although bought on a market, is thought to have come from Old Kandahar, the supposed ancient Alexandria in Arachosia. The text is written in...

present-day Kandahar. The region is first referred to in the Achaemenid-era Elamite Persepolis fortification tablets. It appears again in the Old Persian...

Alexandropolis (Ἀλεξανδρόπολις) was a city in ancient times that is now called Kandahar in Afghanistan. It was one of more than twenty cities founded or renamed...

the border of his empire with the Hellenistic world, in the city of Old Kandahar in modern Afghanistan. Ashoka then made the first edicts in the Indian...

bombers penetrated the security of Kandahar Airfield on Tuesday, 8 December 2015, barricading themselves in an old school building that now contains shops...

Aramaic inscription of Kandahar is an inscription on a fragment of a block of limestone (24x18 cm) discovered in the ruins of Old Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1963...

landing in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The aircraft was piloted by 37-year-old Captain Devi Sharan and first officer Rajinder Kumar, with 58-year-old flight engineer...

Egypt during the Ptolemaic dynasty Ruins of the 19th-century citadel of Kandahar. A settlement on the same site may have been captured or founded by Alexander...

The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre, was a mass murder that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff...

Ball, Warwick (1996). Excavations at Kandahar 1974 and 1975: The First Two Seasons at Shahr-i Kohna (Old Kandahar) Conducted by the British Institute of...

("Our Lord the King Priyadasi"). This title also appears in Greek in the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription, when naming the author of the proclamation...

1738 when the Afsharids defeated Shah Hussain Hotaki at what is now Old Kandahar. When Ahmad Shah Durrani came to power in 1747, after Nader Shah was...

Lauria Nandangarh, Rampurva (Champaran), and fragments of these in Aramaic (Kandahar, Edict No.7 and Pul-i-Darunteh, Edict No.5 or No.7 in Afghanistan) However...

through it Alexandria Arachosia, the main city in the region, later known as Kandahar Sarasvati, a Hindu goddess This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

on the site of Alexandria Arachosia (Old Kandahar), using the Kandahar Bilingual Rock Inscription or the Kandahar Greek Inscription. The Greco-Bactrian...