xvarenah-deactivated20180316:Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan The region around Mazar-e-Sharif has been
xvarenah-deactivated20180316:Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan The region around Mazar-e-Sharif has been historically part of Greater Khorasan and was controlled by the Tahirids followed by the Saffarids, Samanids, Ghaznavids, Ghurids, Ilkhanates, Timurids, and Khanate of Bukhara until the mid-18th century when it became part of the Durrani Empire after a friendship treaty was signed between emirs Murad Beg and Ahmad Shah Durrani. The famous Persian poet rumi was born in this area as well as other historical Eastern Persian figures. -- source link