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"KĀFIR
QAL'A,
LOCATION:
Bāmiyān Province. On the
south side of the Saighān Valley, 2 km west of Saighān
'Alaqadari on the route to Deh Iman and Dandānshikān
Pass.
DATE: Turk
/pre-Mongol Islamic, 9th-13th C. (Architectural).
DESCRIPTION:
Remains of a
fortress on two spurs on the side of the valley, consisting
of ruins of high mud walls and towers."
From
Ball, W. Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan,
Paris, 1982, p. 138
CONDITION: carved
stucco weather-worn, one arch dangerously cracked; remedial
attention urgently needed.
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KĀFIR
QAL'A
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