Bagram

Bagram
بگرام
بګرام
Town
Clockwise from top: Bazaar and part of Bagram (2009); Bagram Valley; A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook heavy lift helicopter takes off on February 4, 2012 from Bagram Airfield; and Bagram Airfield in winter
Bagram is located in Afghanistan
Bagram
Bagram
Location in Afghanistan
Bagram is located in South Asia
Bagram
Bagram
Bagram (South Asia)
Coordinates: 34°56′25″N 69°15′18″E / 34.9403°N 69.2550°E / 34.9403; 69.2550
Country Afghanistan
ProvinceParwan
DistrictBagram
Elevation4,882 ft (1,488 m)
Time zone+04:30

Bagram (/bəɡrɑːm/; Pashto/Persian: بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir Valley, near today's city of Charikar, Afghanistan. The location of this historical town made it a key passage from Ancient India along the Silk Road, leading westwards through the mountains towards Bamiyan, and north over the Kushan Pass to the Baghlan Valley[2] and past the Kushan archeological site at Surkh Kotal, to the commercial centre of Balkh and the rest of northern Afghanistan. Bagram was the capital of the Kushan Empire in the first century CE.

  1. ^ Climate-Data.org, "Elevation: Bagram". Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  2. ^ Cunningham (1871), pp. 16-27