Historical place profile
Qa`la Bost
Qa`la Bost is an ancient fortress within the ancient city of Bust, located on the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan and overseeing a major crossroads linking Kandahar and India to eastern Iran. Standing remains at the site predominantly date to the Islamic Middle Ages, but archaeological finds suggest an occupational history dating back to at least the first millennium BCE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:310634609
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:310634609
- Place type
- archaeological-site, citadel, fort-2, fortified-settlement, settlement
- Coordinates
- 31.502499, 64.356616
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Qa`la Bost is an ancient fortress within the ancient city of Bust, located on the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan and overseeing a major crossroads linking Kandahar and India to eastern Iran. Standing remains at the site predominantly date to the Islamic Middle Ages, but archaeological finds suggest an occupational history dating back to at least the first millennium BCE.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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