Unhappily, I've never visit Afghanistan, but
I've begin study the Balkh History, from
Greek Empire (and before) to Tamerlan [TimurLeng]
(and after). Bactriane was a "marriage" between
two civilization. Not a conflict limit.

In the 70's I was too young to go somewhere alone...
But around 1977/78, I've read a french book written
by Anne-France D'HAUTEVILLE who has visited
Afghanistan in 1970/75 and she loves this country,
and perhaps give me the idea to visit it in the future.
I keep this idea. War will have a end.

JMZ (France)



3BE5C880.868DF7FB@ndh.net...
> JMZ schrieb:
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> > 3BE588FA.DC9CAB81@ndh.net...
> > > No, that's not Balkh, it's somewhere in south-western Turkmenistan,
east
> > of
> > > that would be ancient
> > > Merv... Balkh is located in northern Afghanistan!
> >
> > Sure, ruins of Balkh (Bactres in French) are at
> > 10 kilometers on the west of Mazar e Sharif.
> > But I have some difficults to point the nail
> > at the exact place...
> >
>
> Have you ever been there - perhaps back in the 70s, as a shaggy hippie
with
> flowing mane on the Magic Highway to India?
>
> Though I never had the chance to visit the country, I'm an Afghanistan
geek
> myself (see also my signature) and toyed for years with the idea of
pre-war
> Afghanistan as a raytraced 3D world... currently I'm working on the region
> between Kandahar and the Pakistani border, based on a scanned topographic
map
> at a scale of 1:300.000. Cumbersome work, more than 4 million pixels have
to
> be set manually to make the heightfield...
>
> See you in Khyberspace -
http://www.geocities.com/electricafghan/index-e.html
>
> Afghanistan Chronicle: http://www.ndh.net/home/bleimann/
>
> Yadgar  - Cologne, Germany
>
>
>

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