AFGHANISTAN Kandaha r (or Qandaha r). View of Eedjah or Porta of the North. Second city of Afghanistan; the chief town of the Province of Kandahar. Ancient Capital of Afghanistan under the empire of the Durrani dynasty; until Timur Shah did not move in the years the eighty of the 18th century center of the reign to Kabul; Kandahar today remains the main center of the south of the country and the cultural chief town of etnia the Pashtun. Recording from " Travel around the mondo" Vol. 35 by Carl Simond; Publishing society Sonzogno; 1895 approximately