The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Herat

  • city
  • Persian with Islamic elements

The walled oasis city of western Khorasan, a crossroads of Persian, Arab, and later Turkish power. Gibbon lists it among the great cities of the eastern caliphate.

Type
city
Style
Persian with Islamic elements
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 231
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The walled oasis city of western Khorasan, a crossroads of Persian, Arab, and later Turkish power. Gibbon lists it among the great cities of the eastern caliphate.

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