Before Kabul, what was the capital city of Afghanistan?
Kabul Timur Shah Durrani, after inheriting power, transferred the capital of Afghanistan from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776, and used Peshawar in what is today Pakistan as the winter capital. Timur Shah died in 1793 and was succeeded by his son Zaman Shah Durrani. Kabul's first visitor from Europe was Englishman George Forster, who described 18th-century Kabul as "the best and cleanest city in South Asia". In 1826, the kingdom was claimed by Dost Mohammad Khan but in 1839 Shujah Shah Durrani was re-installed with the help of British India during the First Anglo-Afghan War. In 1841 a local uprising resulted
History of the Jews in Afghanistan moving between the routes on the ancient silk road. Jews also settled in the capital city of Kabul. As of 2018, only one known Jew, Zablon Simintov, remains residing in Afghanistan; he cares for a synagogue in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Records of a Jewish population in Afghanistan go back to the 7th century. Afghan Jews claim ancestry to the Lost Israelite Tribes. Balkh was a main center for Jewish life in ancient Afghanistan. The city was said to have been the burial place of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, and the home of the prophet Jeremiah. The city of Herat was