Wakhan District
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Wakhan District is one of the 28 districts of Badakhshan province in eastern Afghanistan. It has an estimated population of about 17,213 people, mostly ethnic Wakhis, Pamiris and Kyrghyz. The town of
A scenery in Wakhan
Winter in Wakhan
Bazai Gumbad
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Bazai Gumbad, also reported as Buzai Gumbad and Bozai Gumbaz, is the site of domed tombs and nearby settlement of mostly ethnic Kyrgyz herders in the Wakhan District of Badakhshan Province of Afghanis
Wakhan District
…Durrani. In 1891, during the Russian conquest of Central Asia, government forces from the Russian Empire had occupied Wakhan by stationing troops in Bazai Gumbad. A British national by the name of Francis Younghusband, who was traveling from Kashgar back to British India, was detained by the stationed Russian…
The historical gumbads in the village
Ruin of Karwan-balasi near Bazai Gumbad, photographed by Aurel Stein in c. 1912