xvarenah-deactivated20180316:

Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan  

The region around Mazar-e-Sharif has been historically part of Greater Khorasan and was controlled by the Tahirids followed by the Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Ilkhanates, Timurids, and Khanate of Bukhara until the mid-18th century when it became part of the Durrani Empire after a friendship treaty was signed between emirs Murad Beg and Ahmad Shah Durrani.  The famous Persian poet rumi was born in this area as well as other historical Eastern Persian figures.

(via travelthisworld)