ABC 093 — Kashka Kotal Pass
View of the boulder landscape of the Kashka Kotal Pass. In the left background the faded contour of the bare Naratu.
View of the boulder landscape of the Kashka Kotal Pass. In the left background the faded contour of the bare Naratu.
[List:] 93. From Kashka Kotal to the north, with Naratu.
- Collection Afghan Boundary Commission, photographs ABC 34-38: same place.
- Yate, C.E. (1888): Northern Afghanistan or Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission, p. 6: “The 1st of July we devoted to a trip to Naratu, a curious old fort on a scarped hill some 12 miles to the north. Our road led over the Band-i-Kashka, and then wound along the hillsides for some miles, finally descending into a sort of valley or plateau to the old fort called Kilah-i-Aman Beg, after the Dehzingeh Hazarah who built it, not far from the ziarat of Kwajah Dehistan. […]”
- Niedermayer, O. (1924): Afganistan, pl. 238-240: photographs of “Kelle Nareiman”.
- Adamec, L.W. (1975): Herat and north-western Afghanistan, p. 256: Kashka Kotal; p. 317: Naratu or Naraiman; pp. 432-433: Zarmast.
Image No.
ABC 093
Collection
Afghan Boundary Commission 1884-86
Series
ABC 2, Photographs 058 to 116
Format
Sepia print, 149/204 mm
Quality
background faded, some mouldy spots
Place, date
Kashka Kotal, July 1, 1885
Descriptors
Latitude / Longitude34.637520 / 63.109240
Google Earth34°42ʹ N / 62°57ʹ E
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Survey of India MapSheet 29, Herat (1916): Kashka P., P 87
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