Defunct province in Afghanistan
Turkestan Province (Persian :ولایت ترکستان romanized : Wilāyat-i Turkistān Afghanistan .
It was located in northern Afghanistan in the region still known asAfghan Turkestan . In 1890,Qataghan-Badakhshan Province was separated from Turkestan Province. It is present in an administrative map of 1929,[ 1] [ 2]
From its founding in 1850 until 1854,Balkh was the capital of the province. However, the city of Balkh was deprecated and in ruins. As a result, in 1854 the capital was moved byMuhammad Afzal Khan toTakhtapul .[ 3] [ 4] Mazar-i-Sharif between July 1869 and 1873/74.[ 5]
Political administration [ edit ] In the 19th century, Afghan Turkestan was governed by a governor (hakim ) appointed by the Amir.[ 6]
In 1886 the administrative divisions of Afghan Turkestan were as follows:[ 9]
Mazar-i Sharif (with the districts ofShor Tapa , Boinkara,Kishindi ,Aq Kupruk , TunjBalkh (directly administered by the Sardar of Turkistan)Aqcha (with the districts of Khwaja Salar andDawlatabad )Tashkorgan (with the districts ofPir Nakchir andGhaznigak )Sheberghan Andkhui Aybak Dara-i Suf Doab Saighan andKahmard Balkh-ab (high up the Band-i Amir river) Sangcharak Sar-i Pol Maimana ^ Muḥammad, Fayz̤; Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad Kātib (1999).Kabul Under Siege: Fayz Muhammad's Account of the 1929 Uprising ISBN 9781558761551 ^ "Afghanistan Provinces" .www.statoids.com . Retrieved2018-12-22 .^ Ḥabībī, ʿA."AFŻAL KHAN, AMIR MOḤAMMAD" .Encyclopaedia Iranica . Retrieved2024-02-28 . ^ de Planhol, Xavier."MAZĀR-E ŠARIF" .Encyclopaedia Iranica . Retrieved2024-02-28 . ^ McChesney, R. D. (2014-07-14).Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 ISBN 978-1-4008-6196-5 ^ Christine Noelle.State and tribe in nineteenth-century Afghanistan: the reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863) .Routledge , 1997. pp. 101 ^ Lee, Jonathan L. (1996-01-01).The "Ancient Supremacy": Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle for Balkh, 1731-1901 ISBN 978-90-04-10399-3 ^ Adamec, Ludwig W. (1975).Historical and political who's who of Afghanistan. Hauptbd: Historical and political Who's who ISBN 978-3-201-00921-8 ^ Adamec, Ludwig W.; Branch, India Army General Staff (1979).Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan, Vol. 4: Mazar-I-Sharif and North-Central Afghanistan ISBN 978-3-201-01089-4
