*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the city *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The city of Kandahar dates back to the middle of the first millennium BCE, originally as a Persian town on the edge of the great Registan Desert in southeastern Afghanistan that was reestablished and repopulated by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE.
The ancient site of Kandahar developed on a rocky ridge some 3 kilometers to the west of the present-day ci. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the city *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The city of Kandahar dates back to the middle of the first millennium BCE, originally as a Persian town on the edge of the great Registan Desert in southeastern Afghanistan that was reestablished and repopulated by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE
