📍 Place
Kabul
👑 Capital of 5 kingdoms and empires · 7 events here
The large dot is this place; small dots are places within 80 km.
Through time
👑 Ruled from here
c. 665 CE – c. 822 CETurk ShahisCapital: Kabul1747 – 1823Durrani EmpireCapital: Kandahar, later Kabul1823 – 1926Emirate of AfghanistanCapital: Kabul1926 – 1973Kingdom of AfghanistanCapital: Kabul1973 – presentAfghanistanCapital: Kabul
What happened here within 25 km
- 1839 ⚔ First Anglo-Afghan War begins · Emirate of Afghanistan
- 1878 ⚔ Second Anglo-Afghan War · Emirate of Afghanistan
- 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War; Afghan independence · Emirate of Afghanistan
- 1973 Afghan monarchy ends · Afghanistan
- 1979 ⚔ Soviet intervention in Afghanistan · Afghanistan
- 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan · Afghanistan
- 2021 Taliban take control of Kabul · Afghanistan