Maywand

Maiwand

Maiwand

Village in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan

For other uses, see Maiwand (disambiguation).

Maiwand is a village in Afghanistan within the Maywand District of Kandahar Province. It is located 50 miles northwest of Kandahar, on the main Kandahar–Lashkargah road.[1][2]

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Royal Horse Artillery fleeing from Afghan attack at the Battle of Maiwand, painting by Richard Caton Woodville (1883)

The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority.[3]

Maiwand is the birthplace of the 13th-century Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.[4]

The village is notable for the Battle of Maiwand, which took place on July 27, 1880, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Ayub Khan together with Malalai Anaa defeated a British brigade under General Burrows.[5] The British commemorated the battle with the Maiwand Lion sculpture at Forbury Gardens in England.

References

  1. [1]
    Forbes, Archibald (2010) [1892]. The Afghan Wars: 1839-42 and 1878-80. New York, NY: Cosimo Classics. p. 298. ISBN 9781616405205. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  2. [2]
    "The Battle of Khushk-i-Nakud". The Second Angl-Afghan War 1878-1880. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  3. [3]
    (pdf) The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan: A.I.D. Evaluation Special Study No. 18 C Clapp-Wicek & E Baldwin, U.S. Agency for International Development, published December 1983
  4. [4]
    "The Sufi in red". www.pakistantoday.com.pk. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  5. [5]
    Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Maiwand" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 447.

31°44′N 65°08′E


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