Capital

Capital ​ Kabul (population 1,500,000) was thought to have been established somewhere between 2000 BC and 1500 BC Kabul's history traces the conqures and invasion of many diffrent empires who fought in the region including Alexander the great who conquered Kabul during his conquest of the Persian Empire. The city later became part of the Seleucid Empire before becoming part of the Mauryan Empire. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom captured Kabul from the Mauryans in the early 2nd century and the lost it to their subordinates in the Indo-Greek Kingdom in the mid 2nd century but lost the city to the Kushan Empire nearly 100 years later.



Kabul's history opened a fresh new page in the early 20th century when King Amanullah Khan Amanllah Khan the third son of the Amir Habibullah Khan rose to power. Amanullah Khan was already installed as the governor of Kabul and was in control of the army and the treasury. He quickly seized power imprisoned any relatives with competing claims to the kingship and gained the allegiance of most of the tribal leaders during that time. Russia had recently undergone its communist recolution leading to strained relations between the country and the United Kingdom Amanullah Khan reconized the opportunity to use the situation to gain Afghanistan's independance over its foreign affairs. He lead a surprise attack against the British in India on May 13, 1919 begginning the The-Third-Anglo-Afghan-War. After initial successes the war quickly became a stalemate as the United Kingdom was still dealing with the costs of World-War-1 and Afghanistan became an independent nation. Khan also made cosmopolitan schools for both boys and girls in the region including installing electricity in the city overturned the centuries old traditional strict style dress for women and many other good things for the region.



The city came to a Halt 800 public buses for transportation came to a halt by 1993 all electricity and water in the city was completely destroyed. Kabul history turned to a dark period when the taliban captured Kabul in september 1996. In october 2001 after the 9/11 attack on new york and the pentagon the United States invaded Kabul.

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