Āteshkadeh-ye Sorkh Kowtal

…km) southwest of Baghlān is Āteshkadeh-ye Sorkh Kowtal, site of the ruins of a Zoroastrian fire temple, believed to have been built in the 1st century ad by the Kushān emperor Kaniṣka I. The population of Baghlān is predominantly Tadzhik. Pop. (2006 est.) 56,200.

Āteshkadehye Sorkh Kowtal, situated in the Qondūz valley, close to the Kābul-Mazār-e Sharīf road, is dated by an inscription to the time of Kaniṣka’s reign. The architecture of the region was very highly developed there. The town was protected by a double row of walls…