Sar-e Pol

Sar-e Pol lies on the river descending from the valleys of Kohistanat toward the plains south of Sheberghan. Its name means the head of the bridge, recalling a crossing in a region where mountain waters spread into lower country. From the early sixteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century the surrounding territory belonged to the realm of Bukhara. Sar-e Pol later formed one of the local Uzbek khanates of the northern Afghan country known as the Four Provinces.