Bagram District

Bagram, sometimes also written Begram, is a region in the Afghan province of Parwan and also the eponymous administrative district of the area.

In addition to the military base at Bagram Air Base, which was built in the 1950s with Soviet assistance and is now used by the United States and its allies, a larger village is located was immediately before this base and distributed a number of smaller villages in the countryside.

The military base is to the local population and a major employer, so many living in the area Afghans working on the base. The infrastructure is relatively good for Afghan relations. So run through the area, for example, several paved roads; there is also a paved road connecting the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Already at the time of the Greco -Bactrian rule, or about the 3rd or 2nd century BC the first city was founded in the area. In the area there are ruins of an ancient city and the remains of several Buddhist sites. One assumes that it is the archaeological sites Begrams also the former city Kapisa, the summer residence of the Kushan rule under Kanishka, is. The major findings were known as Begram treasure internationally.