Adraskan

Adraskan lies east of Shindand in the dry country south of Herat. The Adraskan River, also known farther downstream as the Harut, carries water from the western Afghan mountains toward the closed basin of Sistan. Medieval geographical accounts knew a town here as Adraskar or Ardsakar. Its setting belongs to a chain of valleys and irrigated lands surrounded by the barren uplands of western Afghanistan.