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| Keywords: Chilzina Mountain at Kandahar in 1881.jpg Chilzina or the 40 Steps Kandahar Photograph of Chilzina in Kandahar from the 'Bellew Collection Photograph album of Surgeon-General Henry Walter Bellew' taken by Sir Benjamin Simpson c 1881 Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan and is situated in the south of the region Chilzina is a rock-cut chamber on the northern side of the old citadel and is accessed by forty steps A Persian incription at the site reveals that the chamber was completed under the patronage of the Moghul Emperor Babur in the 16th century The old citadel was destroyed by Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia in 1738 http //www bl uk/ The British Library - http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/c/019pho0000050s1u00086000 html Online Gallery 1881 Sir Benjamin Simpson 1831-1923 PD-Old PD-old-70 History of Kandahar People of Kandahar Forts in Afghanistan | ||||
