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Image Dimensions: 13 x 10.5 inches Color: Hand Colored Condition: VG Stock #: 94541 Description: Nice example of this decorative regional map, covering Afghanistan and part of Pakistan. Decorative Vignettes of Boats on the Indus, Lahore and Sulton Mahmoud's Minars and Fortress, Ghuznee. Engraved for R. Montgomery Martin's Illustrated Atlas.
British concern over Russian advances in Central Asia and over Russia's growing influence in West Asia and in Persia in particular culminated in two Anglo-Afghan wars and in the Siege of Herat (1837–1838), in which the Persians, trying to retake Afghanistan and throw out the British, sent armies into the country and fought the British mostly ...
The ancient history of Afghanistan, also referred to as the pre-Islamic period of Afghanistan, dates back to the prehistoric era and the Helmand civilization around 3300–2350 BCE. Archaeological exploration began in Afghanistan in earnest after World War II and proceeded until the late 1970s during the Soviet–Afghan War .
565 – Kabul Shahi is in power. 794 – Shahi capital relocated to Kabul from Kapisa. 1461 – Wali khan Beg is in power. [4] 1502 – Arghunid Muqim in power. [4] 1504 – Siege of Kabul; Mughal Babur in power. [4] [5] 1528 – Gardens of Babur developed outside city. 1545 – Mughal Humayun in power. [6] 1637 – Char Chatta Bazaar built. [7]
Kabul is also spelled as Cabool, Cabol, Kabol, or Cabul. [citation needed]Kabul was known by different names throughout its history. [23] Its meaning is unknown, but "certainly pre-dates the advent of Islam when it was an important centre on the route between India and the Hellenic world". [24]
Archaeology of Afghanistan, mainly conducted by British and French antiquarians, has had a heavy focus on the treasure filled Buddhist monasteries that lined the silk road from the 1st c. BCE – 6th c. AD. Particularly the ancient civilizations in the region during the Hellenistic period and the Kushan Empire. [2]
In that book, Russia in Central Asia in 1889 & the Anglo-Russian Question, he commented: Our relations with Afghanistan in the forty years between 1838 and 1878 were successively those of blundering interference and of unmasterly inactivity. [132] However, he also portrayed the great game as a then-ongoing and future event in 1889, stating:
As Kabul's principal fortress, Bala Hissar was the stage for several pivotal events in both the First (1838–1842) and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars (1878–1880). The British envoy to Kabul, Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari was murdered inside the fort in September 1879 triggering a general uprising and the second phase of the Second Anglo ...