{"id":1543,"date":"2018-01-29T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doorbin.af\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:11:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T15:11:24","slug":"the-old-city-of-herat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doorbin.af\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"The Old City Of Herat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Herat is one of the most ancient cities in Asia and the most famous Islamic city of Khorasan.<\/p>\n

In its\u00a0history,\u00a0it has been a cradle of western and eastern civilizations.<\/p>\n

Once it was located along the Silk Road, so it was one of the crossing points of important roads of Central Asia, Middle East and South Asia.<\/p>\n

Herat is made up of two distinguished parts, one is the old city and another is the new city which was built in 1934.<\/p>\n

Kohandezh (the likely site of pre-13th century Herat) and part of the city from the Timurid era (now only some ruins are remaining) located in the Khiyaban area are apart from this division.<\/p>\n

Herat\u2019s old city was designed in a small area that had four big towers as following:<\/p>\n

Northeastern Tower called \u201cKalan Bigh\u201d;<\/p>\n

Southeastern Tower called \u201cAbdullah Misry\u201d;<\/p>\n

Southwestern Tower called \u201cKhakester\u201d or \u201cKhak Bar Sar\u201d;<\/p>\n

Northwestern Tower called \u201cFeel Khanah\u201d.<\/p>\n

The surrounding walls had small\u00a0towers, as part of the defense-system of Herat.<\/p>\n

Herat\u2019s old city had four gates opening to four directions. On the north alone it had two gates. These gates were:<\/p>\n