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Afghanistan
UNESCO
world heritage sites
Bamyan province
[capital = Bamyan]
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains
in
Bamyan Valley
at
Bamyan: Gholghola City (N34 49 57.60 E67 50 20.80) + Kakrak Valley caves (N34 48 59.60 E67 51 4.90) + Bamyan Cliff (N34 50 48.99 E67 49 30.89) + Qoul-I Akram Caves (N34 49 25.30 E67 47 53.70) + Kalai Ghamai Caves (N34 49 13.60 E67 47 14.50) + Yakawlang: Shar-i-Zuhak (N34 49 34.40 E66 53 24.50) + Qallay Kaphari (N34 48 39.50 E66 50 36.70 + N34 48 46.40 E66 51 0.10) :
The area contains numerous Buddhist monastic ensembles and sanctuaries, as well as fortified edifices from the Islamic period.
Ghowr province
[capital = Chaghcharan]
Minaret of Jam
in
Shahrak
at
N34 23 47.1 E64 30 57.2
Built in 1194 by the great Ghurid Sultan Ghiyas-od-din (1153-1203), its emplacement probably marks the site of the ancient city of Firuzkuh, believed to have been the summer capital of the Ghurid dynasty. Surrounding remains include a group of stones with Hebrew inscriptions from the 11th to 12th centuries on the Kushkak hill, and vestiges of castles and towers of the Ghurid settlements on the banks of the Hari River as well as to the east of the Minaret.