Bamyan (Dari: بامیان), also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian, is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan. Its population of approximately 70,000...

of Bamiyan (Pashto: د باميانو بودايي پژۍ, Dari: تندیس‌های بودا در بامیان) were two possibly 6th-century monumental Buddhist statues in the Bamiyan Valley...

Bamiyan may refer to: Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan Bamiyan, the capital of Bamiyan Province The Buddhas of Bamyan, ancient gigantic statues, now destroyed...

Bamyan Province, also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān (Persian: ولایت بامیان), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan with the city of Bamyan...

On 17 May 2024, a group of foreign tourists were attacked by gunmen at a market in Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan, according to government and...

Harthamah Shar Bamiyan (Arabic: هرثمة شارباميان) was a ninth century personage and provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate. Shar Bamiyan was related...

employment; and the destruction of cultural monuments, including the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which Omar personally ordered. After al-Qaeda, which had been given sanctuary...

murals created c. 650 AD in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Bamiyan is a historic settlement along the Silk Road and is famous for the Bamiyan Buddhas, a series of giant...

After Nishapur's fall, Herat surrendered without a fight and was spared. Bamiyan in the Hindu Kush was another scene of carnage, where stiff resistance...

prominent in the area of Bamiyan. The Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang visited a Lokottaravāda monastery in the 7th century CE, at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, and this...