Bâmiyân
See also: Bâmiyân (homonymy)
Bâmiyân is a city of the center of the Afghanistan, capital of the province of Bâmiyân. Its population is of approximately 61 863 inhabitants, and it is located at some 240 km in the North-West of Kabul. Bâmiyân is the principal city of the Hazaradjat, the country of the Hazaras. It is characterized by, and owes its fame with, the old part of the city, where the Bouddhas of Bâmiyân were drawn up during nearly two millenia, until their destruction by the Taliban in 2001.
See also: Buddhas of Bâmiyân
Located on old the Silk route, the city remained a crossroads between Orient and Occident, crossed by all the commercial exchanges between the China and the the Middle East. The Hunas, a fraction of the Huns Hephtalites, made their capital at the 5th century of it.
The cliff of the Buddha S, the statues gigantic, the ruins of the caves occupied by the monks, Shar-e Gholghola (ruins of the old “city of the noise”), its exquisite beauty and its landscapes make of it the place more visited of Afghanistan.
The city is the arts center of the people Hazara of Afghanistan. The majority of the population lives along the valley of Bâmiyân, at an altitude of approximately 2 800 meters. The valley is embedded between the parallel assembly lines of the Hindu Kush and the Koh-I-Baba.
It is from now on a small village with only one main street where all the marketing activity concentrates. Street which is transformed into mud pit with the least storm. The running water is dubious and the electricity reserved for those which have a generator.
The truffées surrounding cliffs of monastic cells were transformed into dwelling.
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