herat in English

noun
1
a city in western Afghanistan; population 349,000 (est. 2006).

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1. Installing wind turbine farms in Herat could provide electricity to much of western Afghanistan.

2. These mines are located from Badakhshan and extend up to Herat Province.

3. From a Buddhist stupa in central Kabul to 15th century Islamic minarets in Herat , little has been spared .

4. A woman walks up to a voting booth at a polling station in Herat, Afghanistan on August 200

5. Fearing a rival, Murshid did nothing until the news came that Herat had fallen and the Uzbeks had slaughtered the entire population.

6. The two leaders noted with satisfaction that India-assisted projects including Doshi and Charikar sub-stations and India-Afghanistan Friendship Dam in Chishti Sharif, Herat were to be fully functional shortly.

7. In Kabul and Herat, mobile phones abound, a tooth-eroding concoction called “Afghan Cola” is sold, the Internet works (sometimes), there are ATM machines, sophisticated heroin laboratories, four-wheel drive vehicles, five-star hotels, ads for private banks – all the trappings of globalized modernity.

8. The Persian leg of the silk trade route didn’t involve only Iran, but also other Central Asian countries former parts of the Persian Empire, such as what today is Afghanistan, with Herat being one of the most important stations on the Silk Road map with several Caravanserais to offer traders and travellers a place to rest before resuming their often dangerous journey.