Sheberghān

Sheberghan is an oasis town in the old country of Guzgan, west of Balkh. Medieval geographers knew it as Shaburqan, one of the settlements in a fertile region stretching toward the Murghab. Marco Polo described the surrounding country as rich in trees and noted its excellent melons. The cultivated oasis lay between the northern plains and the valleys descending from the Afghan highlands, giving travellers a place of rest and provisions on the road across northern Khorasan.