Herat
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- A city, the capital of Herat province, Afghanistan, dating back to Avestan times.
- 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 5:
- He [...] told her that Herat, the city where Mariam was born, in 1959, had once been the cradle of Persian culture, the home of writers, painters, and Sufis.
- A province of Afghanistan.
- 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 381:
- Shortly before they cross the border into Herat, they pass an Afghan refugee camp.
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editcity in Afghanistan