Ghūrid art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Patel, Alka
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Brill
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The Ghūrid empire's heartland, with its characteristic art and architecture , spanned modern Afghanistan's province of Ghūr and its immediate surroundings, including the Bāmiyān valley, extending south and west from Ghazna through Lashkargāh by 567/1173-4 and to Herat by 569/1175. Jūzjānī (d. 658/1260) writes that the Ghūrids' summer capital was Fīrūzkūh (now generally identified with the present-day village of Jām) and that the winter capital of Zamīndāwar (not yet located) was "40 leagues to the south." The area from Jām-Fīrūzkūh eastward through Bāmiyān