Kus̄k

Kusk lies in Badghis, north of Herat in eastern Khorasan. The Kushk River rises north of Herat and flows north toward the Murghab, linking upland valleys with the Panjdeh oasis. The wider region was influenced by rulers based at Herat, a major political and cultural centre under the Timurids. In the eighteenth century Nader Shah retook Herat in 1729; after his death in 1747, it passed out of Persian control.