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Great Juma mosque of Herat. Repaired many times over ; extensively restored in the 12th cent. by the Ghurid ruler Ḡiāṯ-al-Din Moḥammad.
Major city of Areia and Khorasan, known succesively as Artacoana, Alexandria in Aria, Harev and Herat. Occupied whithout interruption from Iron Age to present times.
Possible localisation of Herat round wall, delimiting the Achaemenid, hellenistic, Parthian and Sasanian city.