{"id":1526,"date":"2018-01-29T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doorbin.af\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:20:05","slug":"brief-history-of-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/?p=1526","title":{"rendered":"Brief history of Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1527 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5-2.jpg 288w, https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/5-2-110x75.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Herat dates back to ancient times, but its exact age remains unknown. During the period of the\u00a0Achaemenid Empire\u00a0(ca. 550-330 BC), the surrounding district was known as\u00a0Haraiva\u00a0(in\u00a0Old Persian), and in classical sources the region was correspondingly known as\u00a0Aria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Herodotus\u00a0described Herat as\u00a0the bread-basket of Central Asia. At the time of Alexander the Great in 330 BC, Aria was obviously an important district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">In late 330 BC, Alexander captured the Arian capital that was called\u00a0Artacoana. The town was rebuilt and the citadel was constructed. Afghanistan became part of the\u00a0Seleucid Empire\u00a0after Alexander died, which formed an alliance with the Indian\u00a0Maury Empire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">In the last two centuries\u00a0of Sasanian rule, Aria (Herat) had great strategic importance in the endless wars between the Sasanians, the\u00a0Chionites\u00a0and the\u00a0Hephthalites\u00a0who had been settled in the northern section of Afghanistan since the late 4th century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0Abu Muslim Khorasani was the first person who declared the independence of Herat from Arabs. Following that Herat city was ruled by Tahirid, Safavid, Ghaznavid, Ghorid, Seljuq and Timurid dynasties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">In the past it was said: \u201cKhorasan is an ocean and Herat is its pearl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1528 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6-1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6-1-110x75.jpg 110w, https:\/\/doorbin.af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6-1.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herat dates back to ancient times, but its exact age remains unknown. During the period of the\u00a0Achaemenid Empire\u00a0(ca. 550-330 BC), the surrounding district was known as\u00a0Haraiva\u00a0(in\u00a0Old Persian), and in classical sources the region was correspondingly known as\u00a0Aria. Herodotus\u00a0described Herat as\u00a0the bread-basket of Central Asia. At the time of Alexander the Great in 330 BC, Aria &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-150"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}