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Bagram (/bəɡrɑːm/; Pashto/Persian: بگرام) is a town and seat in Bagram District in Parwan Province of Afghanistan, about 60 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. It is the site of an ancient city located at the junction of the Ghorband and Panjshir Valley, near today's city of Charikar, Afghanistan. The location of this historical town made it a key passage from Ancient India along the Silk Road, leading westwards through the mountains towards Bamiyan, and north over the Kushan Pass to the Baghlan Valley[2] and past the Kushan archeological site at Surkh Kotal, to the commercial centre of Balkh and the rest of northern Afghanistan. Bagram was the capital of the Kushan Empire in the first century CE.

This article is about the city. For the military base, see Bagram Airfield. For the village in Iran, see Bagram, Iran.

Bagram
بگرام
بګرام

 Afghanistan

Parwan

Bagram

4,882 ft (1,488 m)

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Bagram District

Parwan Province

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Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Afghanistan Information Management Service (AIMS)

Map of Bagram and the surrounding area

Human Rights First;

Undue Process: An Examination of Detention and Trials of Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan in April 2009 (2009)

Human Rights First;

Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (2008)