1880 Map of Herat, Afghanistan
This beautifully rendered map of Herat dates from 1880, the final year of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878--80). The map depicts Herat's impressive defenses and its roughly square plan. The southern and most imposing part of the citadel, "the Ark" (from the Persian arg, citadel) remains standing and is one of the major landmarks of Herat, as is the Friday Mosque (the Jumma Musjid in northeastern Herat). The defensive walls have long been replaced by spacious boulevards, however. Also noteworthy are the extensive vineyards that surround the city along with gardens and other cultivated land.
- Date
- 1880
- Place
- Herat
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 3,983 × 5,184 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
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