List of battles in Afghanistan
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This is a list of battle that were fought in present day Afghanistan geographically.
Battles[edit]
- Battle of the Arius – 208 BC – Antiochus's Bactrian Campaign
- Siege of Bactra – 208 BC – 206 BC – Antiochus's Bactrian Campaign
- Battle of Herat (484) – 484 – Hephthalite–Sasanian Wars
- Siege of Herat (652) – 652 – Muslim conquest of Khorasan (Muslim conquest of Persia)
- Battle of Badghis – 654 – Muslim conquest of Khorasan (Muslim conquest of Persia)
- Battle of the Baggage – 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
- Battle of Kharistan – 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
- Battle of Parwan – 1221 – Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
- Siege of Balkh (1370) – 1370 – Timurid conquests and invasions
- Occupation of Balkh (1447) – 1447 – Timurid wars of succession
- Siege of Balkh (1447) – 1447 – Timurid wars of succession
- Battle of Tarnab (1448) – 1448 – Timurid wars of succession
- Siege of Herat (1448) – 1448 – Timurid wars of succession
- Siege of Kabul (1504) – 1504
- Battle of Qalat – 1506
- Battle of Ab Darrah Pass – 1511 – Timurid-Uzbek Wars
- Battle of Herat (1598) – 1598 – Persian–Uzbek wars
- Siege of Kandahar (1605–1606) – 1605 – 1606 – Mughal–Persian Wars
- Mughal sieges of Kandahar (1649–1653) – 1649, 1652 and 1653 – Mughal–Safavid War (1649–1653)
- Battle of Kafer Qal'eh – 1729 – Herat Campaign of 1729 (Campaigns of Nader Shah)
- Battle of Herat (1729) – 1729 – Herat Campaign of 1729 (Campaigns of Nader Shah)
- Siege of Kandahar – 1737 – 1738 – Qandahar Campaign of 1737 (Campaigns of Nader Shah)
- Siege of Herat (1837–1838) – 1837 – 1838 – Great Game
- Battle of Ghazni – 1839 – First Anglo-Afghan War (Great Game)
- Battle of Jellalabad – 1841 – 1842 – First Anglo-Afghan War (Great Game)
- Battle of Gandamak – 1842 – First Anglo-Afghan War (Great Game)[1]
References[edit]
- ↑
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 450: see the second line:- "....was the scene of the massacre....".
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