ABC 130/131/132 — Maimana City

• Grodekov, N.; Marvin, Ch. (1880): Colonel Grodekoff’s Ride from Samarcand to Herat: Through Balkh and the Usbek States of Afghan Turkestan, pp. 110-112: description of Maimana and its history.
• Lansdell, H. (1887): Through Central Asia, p. 629: “Owing to rainy weather the English Commissioner and political officers did not leave Chahar-Shambeh until the 7th of May [1886], two days after which they arrived near Maimana. Here again, the weather was very unsettled, and floods prevailed, with loss of lift to the natives, one entire village of thirty families being destroyed near the British Commissioner’s camp.”
• Yate, A.C. (1887): Travels with the Afghan Boundary Commission, p. 262: short description of Maimena.
• Parliamentary Blue Papers (1888): Sketch Map: Maimana, approx: 35°55ʹ N / 64°45ʹ E.
• Niedermayer, O. (1924): Afganistan, pl. 234-236: Maimana.
• Adamec, L.W. (1979): Mazar-i-Sharif and north-central Afghanistan, pp. 397-405: Maimana.
• Ball, W. (1981): Archaeological Gazetteer of Afghanistan, pp. 178-179: Maimana; p. 511: map.

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