Aurora:Qandahar
A Town In Afghanistan With A Big History
The Battle of Qandahar , 1 September 1880, was the last major conflict of the Second Angio-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan was fought between the British forces under command of General Balls and the Qandahar forces led by Sir Bill D(bill04112009). It ended with a decisive Afghan victory, having inflicted nearly 3,000 casualties.
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Qandahar (English: /ˈkændəˌhɑːr/; Pashto: کندهار Qandahār, Dari: قندهار, Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of 1,010 m (3,310 ft). It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the capital of Qandahar Province as well as the de facto capital of the Taliban, formally known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It also happens to be the centre of the larger cultural region called Loy Kandahar. In 1709, Mirwais Hotak made the region an independent kingdom and turned Kandahar into the capital of the Hotak dynasty. In 1747, Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani dynasty, made Kandahar the capital of the Afghan Empire.