Naderabad was a city created in 1738 by
Nader Shah, the
King of Persia from 1736 to 1747. Nader built the city in the aftermath of his army's destruction of
Old Kandahar and named the city after himself. The city was near the Šorāb river, and from the remnants of Old Kandahar. When Nader Shah died in 1747 the city was abandoned,
though it continued to appear on 19th century European maps.
[Encyclopedia Iranica: Kandahar]
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Kandahar
Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population of about 614,118. It is the c ...
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Old Kandahar
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Destroyed cities
Former populated places in Afghanistan
1738 establishments in Asia
Ruins in Afghanistan
Afsharid Iran