Yakawlang (also romanized as Yakaolang) (Persian: یکاولنگ) was a city of 65,000 people (est. 2000) in Yakawlang District, Bamyan Province, Afghanistan. It is the capital of Yakawlang District with an altitude of 2,585 metres (8,481.0 ft).[1] It was significantly destroyed by military forces in 2000–2001.
Yakawlang (also romanized as Yakaolang) (Persian: یکاولنگ) was a city of 65,000 people (est. 2000) in Yakawlang District, Bamyan Province, Afghanistan...
Yakawlang (Persian: یکاولنگ) is district located in the northwestern part of Bamyan Province. Its population is 76,897 (2011) predominantly from the Hazara...
Green Berets from ODA 595. On October 27, Spann led a three-man team to Yakawlang, sixty miles west of Bamiyan, to prepare the way for the CIA’s Team Delta...
January 2001 the Taliban committed a mass execution of Hazara people in the Yakawlang District of Bamyan Province in Afghanistan. This started on January 8...
Hizb-e Wahdat. This led to a struggle in the western province of Bamyan, Yakawlang, which was regarded by both sides as being key to control northern and...
Jonathan L.; Sims Williams, Nicholas (2003). "Bactrian Inscription from Yakawlang sheds new light on history of Buddhism in Afghanistan". Silk Road Art...
Maidan Wardak, and more. The most populous towns in Hazarajat are Bamyan, Yakawlang (Bamyan), Nili (Daykundi), Lal wa Sarjangal (Ghor), Sang-e-Masha (Ghazni)...
from Gardiz, who was appointed as the wuluswal (district governor) of Yakawlang district, being the only Shia to hold the position of district governor...
Ghulam Ali Wahdat, son of Nawazesh Ali, was born on 22 March 1955 in Yakawlang district of Bamiyan province. In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of...
(Pakistan), one of the highest paved roads in the world Dare-e-Sof and Yakawlang Road (Afghanistan), a 550 km road over mountainous terrain requiring eight...
regions of Afghanistan. Daizangi includes Panjab (Bamyan), Waras (Bamyan), Yakawlang (Bamyan), Lal Sarjangal (Ghor) and part of Sharistan (Daikundi). The residents...
allegiance of the majority of Hezb-e Wahdat members in western Kabul, Yakawlang district, Wardak province, and Mazar-i-Sharif city. According to Hazara...
from Dara-i Sufi Bala District in Samangan Province and one coming from Yakawlang District in Bamyan Province. The Taliban had also asked its members from...
Jonathan L.; Sims Williams, Nicholas (2003). "Bactrian Inscription from Yakawlang sheds new light on history of Buddhism in Afghanistan". Silk Road Art...
execution. On 21 September, a Taliban attack on an anti-Taliban base in Yakawlang district of Bamyan and Balkhab was repulsed by fighters under Mohammad...
Supporters of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance reportedly retake the town of Yakawlang after heavy fighting. The UN reports that Taliban forces had killed around...
Jonathan L.; Sims Williams, Nicholas (2003). "Bactrian Inscription from Yakawlang sheds new light on history of Buddhism in Afghanistan". Silk Road Art...
traditional Hazara music on the dambura. Seyed Anwar Azad was born in 1969, in Yakawlang, Bamyan, Afghanistan. In 1989, when he was about 20 years old, he turned...
starting on 8 January 2001, Taliban forces shot dead 170 civilians in Yakawlang by firing squad. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIGRC)...
of Bamyan Province. The Shebartoo lies on the Bamiyan — Band-e Amir — Yakawlang road, about half-way between the Bamiyan valley and the Band-e Amir lakes...
Safdar Tawakoli (Persian: صفدر توکلی); (born 1942 in Yakawlang, Bamyan) is an ethnic Hazara musician from Afghanistan. He focuses on and plays mostly...
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