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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Herat, Afghanistan.

Prior to 15th century

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Medieval Kabul Shahi 565–879 Principality of Chaghaniyan 7th–8th centuries Rashidun Caliphate 652–661 Tang China 660–669 Tibetan Empire 660–842 Umayyads 661–750 Zunbils 680–870 Lawik 750-977 Abbasids 750–821 Tahirids 821–873 Saffarids 863–900 Samanids 875–999 Ghaznavids 963–1187 Ghurids before 879–1215 Seljuks 1037–1194 Khwarezmids 1215–1231 Mongol Invasion 1219–1226 Chagatai Khanate 1226–1245 Qarlughids 1224–1266 Ilkhanate 1256–1335 Kartids 1245–1381 Timurids 1370–1507 Arghuns 1520–1591
Modern Mughals 1501–1738 Safavids 1510–1709 Kunduz Khanate  ?–1859 Hotak dynasty 1709–1738 Sadozai Sultanate 1716–1732 Afsharid Iran 1738–1747 Durrani Empire 1747–1823 Maimana Khanate 1747–1892 Herat 1793–1863 Principality of Qandahar 1818–1855 Emirate 1823–1926 Saqqawist Emirate 1929 Kingdom 1926–1973 Daoud coup 1973 Republic 1973–1978 Saur Revolution 1978 Democratic Republic 1978–1992 Tanai coup attempt 1990 Islamic State 1992–1996 Islamic Emirate 1996–2001 US invasion 2001 Islamic State (reinstated) 2001 Interim/Transitional Administration 2001–2004 Islamic Republic (politics) 2004–2021 Islamic Emirate (reinstated) since 2021
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• 500 BCE - Persian town in Aria established (approximate date).
• 330 BCE - Artacoana captured by Alexander III of Macedon.
• 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.
• 1064 - Alp Arslan in power.
• 1102 - Earthquake.
• 1157 - The city was destroyed by an irruption of the Ghuzz, the predecessors of the modern Turkomans.
• 1163 - Bobrinski Bucket produced in Herat.
• 1175 - Ghurids in power.
• 1197 - Conflict between blacksmiths' and coppersmiths' bazaars.
• 1201 - Construction of new Friday Mosque begins.
• 1221 - City sacked by Mongols.
• 1244 - Shams al-Din Kurt in power.
• 1300 - Herat Citadel reinforced.
• 1364 - Earthquake.
• 1380 - City taken by forces of Timur.

15th-19th centuries

• 1405 - Capital of Timurid dynasty relocated to Herat from Samarkand.
• 1410 - "Bazaars reconstructed."
• 1425 - Tomb of Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari built at Gazurgah (near city).
• 1438 - Gawhar Shad Mausoleum built.
• 1448 - Siege of Herat (1448).
• 1460s - "Royal Canal" built.
• 1469 - Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqarah in power.
• 1482 - Ikhlasiyya (educational and charitable complex) built outside city (approximate date).
• 1500 - Friday Mosque rebuilt.
• 1507 - Uzbek Muhammad Shaybani in power.
• 1510 - City taken by Safavid Shah Ismail; Shamlu Turkomans in power.
• 1528 - Safavid Shah Tahmasp in power.
• 1716 - Abdali Afghan revolt.
• 1729 - Nader Shah in power.
• 1732 - Afghan revolt suppressed.
• 1750 - City becomes part of the Durrani Empire.
• 1801 - City becomes independent.
• 1807
  • July–August: City is besieged by Iran.
• 1818
  • April: City incorporated into the Durrani Empire. Later that year the Durranis are kicked out of most of Afghanistan, Herat becomes their last stronghold.
• 1837
  • 23 November: Siege of Herat by Persian forces begins.
• 1842
  • Early 1842: Yar Muhammad Khan Alakozai deposes Kamran Shah and becomes the new ruler.
• 1851
  • June 11: Sa'id Muhammad Khan in power.
• 1852
  • March–May: City is briefly occupied by the Persians.
• 1855
  • September 15: Muhammad Yusuf in power.
• 1856
  • April: Persian siege of Herat begins.
  • October 25: Persians take the city of Herat.
• 1857
  • September: Persian control of city ends per Treaty of Paris; Sultan Jan installed as ruler of Herat.
• 1862
  • 27 July: City is besieged by the Muhammadzais.
• 1863
  • 26 May: City taken by forces of Dost Mohammad Khan.
  • Mohammad Yaqub Khan in power.
• 1880 - Abd al-Rahman Khan in power.
• 1885 - Under the orders of the Amir, the Mosalla was destroyed.

20th century

• 1922 / 1301 SH - Solar Hijri calendar officially adopted in Afghanistan.
• 1925 - Herat National Museum established.
• 1947 - Radio Kabul transmissions begin to reach Herat (approximate date).
• 1960s - Kandahar-Herat highway constructed.
• 1973 - Population: 108,750.
• 1979
  • March: Uprising.
  • City bombed by Soviet forces.
• 1988 - Population: 177,300 (estimate).
• 1993 - Mines cleared.

21st century

• 2010 - Population: 410,700.
• 2016 - Population: 491,967.

See also

• List of governors of Herat province
• Khorasan
• Timelines of other cities in Afghanistan: Kabul

References

1. ^ "City of Herat". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 16 April 2013.
2. ^ Paul 2000.
3. ^ Lisa Golombek (1983). "The Resilience of the Friday Mosque: The Case of Herat". Muqarnas. 1.
4. ^ Britannica 1910.
5. ^ Grove 2009.
6. ^ Bosworth 2007.
7. Richard N. Frye (1948). "Two Timurid Monuments in Herat". Artibus Asiae. 11.
8. 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.
9. ^ Balfour 1885.
10. ^ Noelle-Karimi, Christine (2014). The Pearl in Its Midst: Herat and the Mapping of Khurasan (15th-19th Centuries). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. ISBN 978-3-7001-7202-4.
11. Lee, Jonathan L. (15 December 2018). Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present. Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-78914-019-4.
12. Mikhail Volodarsky (1985). "Persia's Foreign Policy between the Two Herat Crises, 1831-56". Middle Eastern Studies. 21.
13. Stewart 1886.
14. Marsh 1876.
15. John Baily (1976). "Recent Changes in the Dutār of هرات". Asian Music. 8. Society for Asian Music.
16. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
17. ^ Tirard-Collet 1998.
18. United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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20. "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations

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Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Herat", New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
• Lal, Mohan (1834). "A Brief Description of Herat". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 3: 9–18.
• 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.
• Hippisley Cunliffe Marsh (1876). "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.
• George Bruce Malleson (1880). Herat: the granary and garden of Central Asia. W.H. Allen & Co.
• Edward Balfour (1885), "Herat", Cyclopaedia of India (3rd ed.), London: B. Quaritch
• C.E. Stewart (1886). "Herat Valley and the Persian Border, from the Hari-Rud to Sistan". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. 8 (3): 137–156. doi:10.2307/1800963. JSTOR 1800963.
• 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 20th century

• Holdich, Thomas Hungerford (1910). "Herat" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). pp. 330–332.
• Sayfi Harawi (1944). M.S. Siddiqi (ed.). Tarikh-nama-yi Harat (in Persian). Calcutta.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• A. Lezine (1963). "Herat, notes de voyage". Bulletin d'Études 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 (ed.). From Medina to Metropolis. Princeton: Darwin Press.
• D. Brandenburg (1977). Herat: eine timuridische Hauptstadt (in German). Graz.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• A.W. Najimi (1988). Herat, the Islamic City: A Study in Urban Conservation. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Rafi Samizay (1989). "Herat: Pearl of Khurasan". Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre (1–2). Archived from the original on 24 December 2007.
• Felicia J. Hecker (1993). "A Fifteenth-Century Chinese Diplomat in Herat". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 3.
• Olivier Tirard-Collet (1998). "After the War: the Condition of Historical Buildings and Monuments in Herat, Afghanistan". Iran. 36.
• Jurgen Paul (2000). "The Histories of Herat". Iranian Studies. 33 (1–2): 93–115. doi:10.1080/00210860008701977. S2CID 162247245.

Published in 21st century

• Josef W. Meri, ed. (2006). "Herat". Medieval Islamic Civilization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96691-7.
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Herat". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Herat", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
• "Herat". Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2009.

External links

• "Historic Cities Programme: Afghanistan". Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Aga Khan Development Network. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013.
• ArchNet. "Herat". Archived from the original on 26 October 2012.
• Map of Herāt and surroundings in 1942

v t e Herat Province
Capital: Herat
Districts	Adraskan Chishti Sharif Farsi Ghoryan Gulran Guzara Hirat Injil Karukh Kohsan Kushk Kushki Kuhna Obe Pashtun Zarghun Shindand Zinda Jan
Populated places	Adraskan Azizabad Baluchi Bazargan Chishti Sharif Farsi Ghurian Gulran Guzara Herat Injil Islam Qala Karukh Kohsan Kushk Kushki Kuhna Obe Pashtun Zarghun Sabzawar Shindand Torghundi Zendeh Jan
Landmarks	Herat Citadel Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine Great Mosque of Herat Gawhar Shad Mausoleum Malan Bridge Musalla complex Herat City Old Fort

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