GHAZNI

GHAZNI, a fortified city of Afghanistan, 7726 ft. above the sea, 85 m. SW. of Kabul; it is the chief strategical point on the
military route between Kandahar and Kabul; in the 11th and 12th centuries it was the capital of the KINGDOM OF GHAZNEVIDS, which stretched from the plains of Delhi to the Black Sea, and which came to an end in 1186.