Darūnṭa ( ps, درونټه) (or Khayrow Khel), also spelled Daruntah or Derunta, is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
in
Jalalabad District
Bihsud District (Pashto: بهسود, formerly Jalalabad District) ( fa, ولسوالی بهسود) is a district of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The district, which contains 40 main villages, is located around the city Jalalabad, spanning b ...
of
Nangarhar province. It is located next to
Jalalabad
Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلالآباد, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jal ...
city on route AO1 in
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bord ...
.
Numerous remains of stupas from the 1st century BCE- 1st century CE, can be found around Darunta, such as in
Bimaran.
It gave its name to the
Darunta training camp
The Darunta training camp ''(also transliterated as Derunta)'' was one of the most well-known of many military training camps that have been alleged to have been affiliated with al Qaeda.
Training with poisons
CNN published a story in which t ...
located north of the village, across the
Darunta Dam
The Darunta Dam ( ps, درونټه برېښناکوټ) is located on the Kabul River near Darunta, approximately west of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan. It is owned and operated by the country's Ministry of ...
.
Gallery
Image:Kabul, Peshawar, and some cities in Nangarhar, Afghanistan 6.png, Darunta, Kabul, Peshawar, and some cities in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.
File:Stupas around Jelalabad, Darunta.jpg, Stupas around Jelalabad, Darunta
File:Darunta steatite container.jpg, The Darunta Buddhist reliquary from Passani Stupa No.2, 1st century CE.Bimaran casket
The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was found inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan.
Discovery
When it was found by the archaeologist Charles Masson durin ...
was excavated. Drawing by Charles Masson
Charles Masson (1800–1853) was the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier and reporter, independent explorer and pioneering archaeologist and numismatist. He was the first European to discover the ruins of Harappa nea ...
.
See also
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Nangarhar Province
References
Populated places in Nangarhar Province
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