Deh Afghanan (Pashto/Persian: ده افغانان, meaning ''Village of the Afghans'') is a

downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in American and Canadian English to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business district ( ...

settlement in the center of

Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

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. It forms part of administrative District 2. It was once a small

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the ...

village that spread across the Zarnegar Park open space, which was home of the Zarnegar Palace built under Emir

Abdur Rahman Khan Abdur Rahman Khan (Pashto: ) (between 1840 and 1844 – 1 October 1901) also known by his epithet, The Iron Amir, was Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to his death in 1901. He is known for perpetrating the Hazara genocide, but also uniting the ...

around the early 1900s. Today Zarnegar Park is the largest

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in downtown Kabul and contains a

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of Abdur Rahman. Deh Afghanan is one of the city's main commercial districts and is home to the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

headquarters, several ministry buildings, banks, the Serena Hotel, and the Arg. In 2009 the Abdul Rahman Mosque was completed and opened in the area. It also contains a mix of historic housing next to modern business buildings.

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Neighborhoods of Kabul {{Kabul-geo-stub