Bagram
Sign in to saveBagram (; Pashto/) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir Valley, near today's city of Charikar, Afghanistan. The location of this historical town made it a key passage from Ancient India along the Silk Road, leading westwards through the mountains towards Bamiyan, and north over the Kushan Pass to the Baghlan Valley and past the Kushan archeological site at Surkh Kotal, to the commercial centre of Balkh and the rest of norther
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- Bagram
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- بگرامبګرام
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- Town
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- Clockwise from top: Bazaar and part of Bagram (2009); Bagram Valley; A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook heavy lift helicopter takes off on February 4, 2012 from Bagram Airfield; and Bagram Airfield in winter
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- Afghanistan#South Asia
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- yes
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- bottom
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- 300
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- Location in Afghanistan
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- Country
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- Province
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- District
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- Parwan
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- Bagram
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- Imperial
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- 1488
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- Religions
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Bagram (; Pashto/) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir Valley, near today's city of Charikar, Afghanistan. The location of this historical town made it a key passage from Ancient India along the Silk Road, leading westwards through the mountains towards Bamiyan, and north over the Kushan Pass to the Baghlan Valley and past the Kushan archeological site at Surkh Kotal, to the commercial centre of Balkh and the rest of northern Afghanistan. Bagram was the capital of the Kushan Empire in the first century [AD].
== History == thumb|upright|Bilingual edict (Greek language|Greek and [[Aramaic) by Emperor Ashoka, from Kandahar - Afghan National Museum. (Click image for translation).]] ===Ancient history===