Herat Guide

Herat: Gawharshad Musalla Complex

091. Herat: Gawharshad Musalla Complex Herat Province. 1,053 kilometers by road west of Kabul. Dates: (?)Achaemenid, 6th-4th century BC (epigraphic evidence); (?)Sassanian, 3rd-7th century AD (numismatic, stylistic); Seljuk, Ghurid, Kart and Timurid, 11th-16th century (architectural, documentary, stylistic). Herat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site candidate (Sept. 2004), is thought to have been …

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Historical Attractions

Herat is an ancient city that has a lot of historical places. Alexander the Great built  the Arg, which is known as Ikhtyaruddin Citadel. Now this huge structure  is one of the most ancient and beautiful places in Herat. In 1978, four synagogues were discovered during archeological diggings, three of which …

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Ancient pools

              Herat  has 82 roofed pools inside and outside the city. In this collection we mention a few of them. Herat’s four old localities have had 16 roofed pools as following: A – QotbiChaaq locality: Ghodaam Pool; Sultan Saeed Ahmad Kabir pool; Bardah Pool; Pahlawan …

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The Old City Of Herat

Herat is one of the most ancient cities in Asia and the most famous Islamic city of Khorasan. In its history, it has been a cradle of western and eastern civilizations. Once it was located along the Silk Road, so it was one of the crossing points of important roads of Central …

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Herat New City

Herat New City expanded to the north-east of the old city in the first half of the 20th century. Wide roads, governmental buildings, entertainment parks, roadsides’ parks and Herat Airport was built  in the late  1950s and the Herat-Kandahar-Kabul Highway constructed in the 1960s  and played an important role for …

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Language Dari (Herati Dialect)

People speak Dari in a local Herati Dialect, full of ancient terms and expressions. Herati dialect is one of the oldest dialects. Herat was home to many scholars, poets, theosophists and famous people such as Khaja Abdullah Ansari, Nooruddin Abdul Rahman Jami and Helali Jaghtaie. Culture and Art Herat is …

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Climate Condition

Herat Province has 54.778 square kilometers, located in the north-western part of Afghanistan in the Herai-Rood basin between Safid-kooh and Sia-kooh mountains. Herat is mountainous in the northern and eastern parts, but in the West and South softly rolling plains prevail. Weather is mild; during the winter, temperature may drop to …

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Brief history of Herat

Herat dates back to ancient times, but its exact age remains unknown. During the period of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BC), the surrounding district was known as Haraiva (in Old Persian), and in classical sources the region was correspondingly known as Aria. Herodotus described Herat as the bread-basket of Central Asia. At the time of Alexander the …

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Introduction

 Herat is the second largest city in Afghanistan, located in the north western part of Afghanistan. It is famous as Diamond of Asia in some literature. The city has a history of more than 3000 years. History of this city is very eventful. It was destroyed and rebuilt many times. …

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