Tschehel Sotun (Kabul)
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چهل ستون Tschehel Sotūn |
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 28 ' N , 69 ° 9' E | ||
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| Country | Afghanistan | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | AF | ||
Tschehel Sotūn , ( Persian چهل ستون, DMG Čehel Sotūn , 'Forty Pillars') is the ruin of a palace on a small, terraced hill about 10 km south of the city center of Kabul . The building is located in an approximately twelve- hectare enclosed garden.
The foundation stone was laid in 1888 by Emir ʿAbd-al-Raḥmān , the completion for Prince Ḥabīb-Allah took place three years later. The palace was one-story and surrounded by a veranda with numerous columns , hence the name that gave it the appearance of a Greek temple. The flat roof was lined with an elegant balustrade . The original name of the site was, after a nearby village, Endakī , also Indicki , Indiki , Hindaki and Hindkaʾi according to various contemporary British sources and maps .
Until the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan , the palace served u. a. to receive foreign state guests. On January 2, 1980, Babrak Karmāl Tschehel Sotūn chose as the seat of government, which made him a primary target of the mujāhidīn . The palace was so badly destroyed in 1980 that Karmāl had to retreat to the citadel of Kabul.
See also
literature
- Nancy H. Dupree : Čehel Sotūn, Kabul. In: Encyclopædia Iranica . Ehsan Yarshater , December 15, 1990, accessed April 29, 2014 .
Web links
- Louis Dupree : picture by Tschehel Sotūn, Kabul. ( JPEG ) In: Encyclopædia Iranica. Ehsan Yarshater, accessed May 11, 2014 .
