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The town of Kandahar goes back to the middle of the first millennium BCE, formerly as a Persian town on the edge of the fantastic Registan Desert in southeastern Afghanistan, that was reestablished and repopulated by Alexander the fantastic in the BCE fourth hundred years. The early site of Kandahar developed on the rocky ridge some three kilometers to the western of the present-day city of the same name, which was founded in the 18th hundred years. Kandahar was situated near commercial establishments on the trade routes connecting India and the Middle East, and for this reason it was the mark of several conquerors throughout the age groups. The city has been in the hands of Persians, Greeks, Arabs (from the seventh hundred years), Turks (10th hundred years), Mongols (12th hundred years), and Indians (16th hundred years). Later, it was conquered by the Safavid-Persians and the Ghilji, a tribe instrumental in the introduction of the present day condition of Afghanistan. Nonetheless, as you writer input it, "The Arab Muslim armies that arrived in the seventh hundred years were following a routes used recently by Persian and Greek invaders, but nothing of the empires, or the almost 20 empires and dynasties that emerged past due, found Afghanistan easy to overcome and control. The Afghan peoples, though internally divided, have a tendency to unite in brutal opposition to outsiders." The old city of Kandahar was deserted after its near-total destruction in 1738, but a few years later a new city was founded a few kilometers to the east, at the location of present-day Kandahar. Between 1748 and 1773 this is the capital of the new kingdom of Afghanistan. Subsequently, the city was briefly conquered by British troops through the Anglo-Afghan wars, and has been the website of considerable fighting and destruction through the ongoing conflicts in the region.
