Lanshi: All Data
1. Lists and Timelines
Balkh: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
500 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Satrapy of Bactria, part of Achaemenid Empire
329 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaigns of Alexander the Great against the Achaemenid rebel Satrapies
315 BC
Mentioned in Event: Consolidation of the borders after the Second War of the Diadochi
308 BC
Mentioned in Event: Babylonian War
249 BC
Mentioned in Event: Secession of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
249 BC
Capital of Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
209 BC
Mentioned in Event: Seleucid Invasion of Bactria
208 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Bactra
206 BC
Mentioned in Event: Seleucid Invasion of Bactria
139 BC
Capital of Yuezhi
226 AD
Capital of Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom
590 AD
Mentioned in: battle of Hyrcanian rock, part of First Perso-Turkic War
902 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Balkh, part of Conquests of Abu Ibrahim Isma'il ibn Ahmad
1220 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire
1370 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Balkh, part of Timurid invasions
1879 AD
Mentioned in Event: Afghan Revolt
1879 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second British Invasion (Second Anglo-Afghan War)
1879 AD
Mentioned in Event: Treaty of Gandamak
1880 AD
Mentioned in Event: Second British Invasion (Second Anglo-Afghan War)
1929 AD
Mentioned in Event: Afghan campaign of the Red Army (1929)
1973 AD
Mentioned in Event: 1974 coup d'état in Afghanistan
1978 AD
Mentioned in Event: Saur Revolution
1980 AD
Mentioned in Event: Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan
1989 AD
Mentioned in Event: Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
1992 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil war in Afghanistan (1989-92)
2001 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil war in Afghanistan (1996-2001)
2001 AD
Mentioned in Event: US/Northern Alliance Offensive
2002 AD
Mentioned in Event: War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
2004 AD
Mentioned in Event: War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)
2021 AD
Mentioned in Event: 2021 Taliban offensive