Invasions of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia and South Asia. Afghanistan area has been invaded in recorded history, but no invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time, and at some point faced rebellion. Some of these invaders in the history of Afghanistan include Indians, Alexander the Great, kharaz empire , Genghis Khan, Timur, various Persian Empires, British Empire,

From a geopolitical sense, controlling Afghanistan is vital in controlling the rest of Southern Asia, or getting a passage through Central Asia, reflecting its geographic position in the region. Afghanistan played an important part in the Great Game power struggles. Historically, the conquest of Afghanistan has also played an important role in the invasion of India from the west through the Khyber Pass.

While relatively little detail is known, parts of the region of nowadays Afghanistan came under rule of the Median kingdom for a short time.

Afghanistan partially fell to the Achaemenid Empire after it was conquered by Darius I of Persia. The area was divided into several provinces called satrapies, which were each ruled by a governor, or satrap. These ancient satrapies included: Aria (Herat); Arachosia (Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, and Quetta); Bactriana (Balkh); Sattagydia (Ghazni); and Gandhara (Kabul, Jalalabad, Peshawar).

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