Timeline of Herat
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Herat, Afghanistan.
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Prior to 15th century
- 500 BCE - Persian town in Aria established (approximate date).[1]
- 330 BCE - Artacoana captured by Alexander III of Macedon.[1]
- 167 BCE - Town becomes part of the Parthian Empire.
- 127 BCE - Town becomes part of the Kushan Empire
- 642 CE - Siege of Herat; Arabs in power.
- 1042 - City besieged by Seljuq Tughril.[2]
- 1064 - Alp Arslan in power.[2]
- 1102 - Earthquake.[3]
- 1163 - Bobrinski Bucket produced in Herat.[4]
- 1175 - Ghurids in power.[1]
- 1197 - Conflict between blacksmiths' and coppersmiths' bazaars.[2]
- 1201 - Construction of new Friday Mosque begins.[3]
- 1221 - City sacked by Mongols.[5]
- 1244 - Shams al-Din Kurt in power.[5]
- 1300 - Herat Citadel reinforced.
- 1364 - Earthquake.[3]
- 1380 - City taken by forces of Timur.[5]
15th-19th centuries
- 1405 - Capital of Timurid dynasty relocated to Herat from Samarkand.[4]
- 1410 - "Bazaars reconstructed."[4]
- 1425 - Tomb of Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari built at Gazurgah (near city).[6]
- 1438 - Mausoleum of Goharshad built.[4]
- 1448 - Siege of Herat (1448).
- 1460s - "Royal Canal" built.[4]
- 1469 - Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqarah in power.[5]
- 1482 - Ikhlasiyya (educational and charitable complex) built outside city (approximate date).[7]
- 1500 - Friday Mosque rebuilt.[3]
- 1507 - Uzbek Muhammad Shaybani in power.[4]
- 1510 - City taken by Savafid Shah Ismail; Shamlu Turkomans in power.[5]
- 1528 - Savafid Shah Tahmasp in power.[5]
- 1716 - Abdali Afghan revolt.[5][8]
- 1729 - Nader Shah in power.[5][8]
- 1732 - Afghan revolt suppressed.[5]
- 1747 - City becomes part of the Durrani Empire.
- 1780 - Siege of Herat (1780-1781) begins.
- 1837 - 23 November: Siege of Herat by Persian forces begins.[5][8]
- 1842 - Alakozai Yar Muhammad in power.[8]
- 1851 - Syud Muhammad Khan in power.[8]
- 1855 - Muhammad Yusuf in power.[8]
- 1856 - Anti-Persian uprising.[9]
- 1857 - Persian control of city ends per Treaty of Paris;[5] Sultan Jan installed as ruler of Herat.[8]
- 1863
- 26 May: City taken by forces of Dost Mohammad Khan.[10]
- Mohammad Yaqub Khan in power.[8][11]
- 1880 - Abd al-Rahman Khan in power.[5]
20th century
- 1925 - Herat National Museum established.
- 1947 - Radio Kabul transmissions begin to reach Herat (approximate date).[12]
- 1960s - Kandahar-Herat highway constructed.[5]
- 1977 - Population: 120,000.[13]
- 1979
- 1993 - Mines cleared.[14]
21st century
- 2010 - Population: 410,700.[15]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 "City of Herat". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- 1 2 3 Jurgen Paul (2000). "The Histories of Herat". Iranian Studies. 33: 93–115. doi:10.1080/00210860008701977.
- 1 2 3 4 Lisa Golombek (1983). "The Resilience of the Friday Mosque: The Case of Herat". Muqarnas. 1.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Herat". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Herat". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 9004153888.
- ↑ Richard N. Frye (1948). "Two Timurid Monuments in Herat". Artibus Asiae. 11.
- ↑ Maria Eva Subtelny (1991). "A Timurid Educational and Charitable Foundation: The Ikhlāṣiyya Complex of Ali Shir Navai in 15th-Century Herat and Its Endowment". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 111.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Edward Balfour (1885), "Herat", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
- ↑ Mikhail Volodarsky (1985). "Persia's Foreign Policy between the Two Herat Crises, 1831-56". Middle Eastern Studies. 21.
- ↑ C.E. Stewart (1886). "The Herat Valley and the Persian Border, from the Hari-Rud to Sistan". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. 8.
- ↑ Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh (1876–1877). "Description of a Journey Overland to India, via Meshed, Herat, Candahar and the Bolan Pass, in the Year 1872". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 21.
- ↑ John Baily (1976). "Recent Changes in the Dutār of هرات". Asian Music. Society for Asian Music. 8.
- ↑ Rafi Samizay (1989). "Herat: Pearl of Khurasan". Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (1-2).
- 1 2 Olivier Tirard-Collet (1998). "After the War: the Condition of Historical Buildings and Monuments in Herat, Afghanistan". Iran. 36.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Herat", New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- Munshi Mohun Lal (1834). "Brief Description of Herat". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
- Narcisse Perrin (1842), "Hérat", L'Afghanistan (in French), Paris: Bertrand
- J.P. Ferrier (1857), "(Herat)", Caravan journeys and wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan, translated by W. Jesse (2nd ed.), London: J. Murray
- Muhammad Isfizari (1861–63). Extraits de la chronique persane d'Herat [Extracts from the Persian chronicle of Herat] (in French). Translated by Barbier de Meynard. Paris: Imprimerie impériale.
- George Bruce Malleson (1880). Herat: the granary and garden of Central Asia. W.H. Allen & Co.
- Charles Edward Yate (1888), "Herat and its Antiquities", Northern Afghanistan, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & Sons
- "Herat". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
- Published in the 20th century
- "Herat", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Sayfi Harawi (1944). M.S. Siddiqi, ed. Tarikh-nama-yi Harat (in Persian). Calcutta.
- A. Lezine (1963). "Herat, notes de voyage". Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales (in French). 18.
- Nancy H. Wolfe (1966). Herat, a pictorial guide.
- Paul English (1973). "The Traditional City of Herat, Afghanistan". In L.C. Brown. From Medina to Metropolis. Princeton: Darwin Press.
- D. Brandenburg (1977). Herat: eine timuridische Hauptstadt (in German). Graz.
- A.W. Najimi (1988). Herat, the Islamic City: A Study in Urban Conservation. London.
- Felicia J. Hecker (1993). "A Fifteenth-Century Chinese Diplomat in Herat". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 3.
- Published in the 21st century
- Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Herat". Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
- Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Herat", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
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- "Historic Cities Programme: Afghanistan". Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Aga Khan Development Network.
- ArchNet. "Herat".
- Map of Herāt and surroundings in 1942
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