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The Bronze Age Helmand culture in the middle and lower valley of the Helmand River, in southern Afghanistan (Kandahar, Helmand and Nimruz province) and eastern Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan province). [2] 2400-1700 BCE: The Bronze Age Oxus civilization in present-day northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan and western ...
1970 – Kabul Airport in operation (approximate date). 1973 – Population: 318,094 city; 534,350 urban agglomeration. [17] 1975 – Rock music festival held. [18] View towards Kabul in June 1976. 1977 – Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan founded. 1978 April: Anti-Daoud demonstrations. [citation needed] 28 April: Coup.
This is a list of years in Afghanistan. See also the timeline of Afghan history . For only articles about years in Afghanistan that have been written, see Category:Years in Afghanistan .
In April 1975, Daoud paid a visit to Iran, and returned with a credit extension of $2 billion.The majority of the sum - $1.7 billion - was expected to be used to fund the construction of a rail system connecting Herat, Kandahar and Kabul to the Iranian rail system, which could provide access to the Persian Gulf. [1]
c. 1350 BC: Migration of waves of Iranian tribes begin from the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex westwards to the Iranian plateau, western Afghanistan and western Iran. According to the Avesta ( Vendidad 1.1-21), they are compelled to leave their homeland Airyana Vaēǰah because Aŋra Mainyu so altered the climate that the winter ...
The history of Afghanistan includes the complete history of the modern-day nation of Afghanistan, from prehistory up to the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistan in 1823 and to the present time. This history is largely shared with that of Central Asia, Persia, and the Indian subcontinent. Human habitation in Afghanistan dates back to the ...
Doomed in Afghanistan: a UN officer's memoir of the fall of Kabul and Najibullah's failed escape, 1992 (Rutgers University Press, 2003). "Documents on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan" (Cold War International History Project, Nov. 2001) online, 79pp; Heinamaa, Anna, et al.
In 2001, as part of a drive against relics of Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past, the Taliban destroyed two large statues of Buddha outside of the city of Bamiyan and announced destruction of all pre-Islamic statues in Afghanistan, including the remaining holdings of the Kabul Museum.In addition to the continuing civil strife, the country suffered ...