Hari (Afghanistan)
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The Hari River or Herat River or Tejen River or Harirud is a river flowing 1,100 kilometres from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it forms the Tejen oasis and disappears in
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The Hari River near Herat
Minaret of Jam
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The Minaret of Jam is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Afghanistan. It is located in a remote and nearly inaccessible region of Shahrak District, Ghor Province, between the Jam and Hari Rivers.
Hari (Afghanistan)
…follows a relatively straight course to the west. Some 200 kilometres (120 mi) upstream from Herat, the river meets the Jam River at the site of the Minaret of Jam, the second tallest ancient minaret in the world at 65 metres (213 ft). In western Afghanistan, the Hari Rud flows to the south of Herat. The valley…
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Film photograph of the minaret and surrounding landscape
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Timurid conqueror Babur advances through Jam and the mountains to Kabul.