Shindand

Shindand occupies the district once known as Asfezar, south of Herat on the road toward Farah and Sistan. Its river, the Adraskan or Harut, flows from the western mountains of central Afghanistan toward the Sistan basin. The town was later called Sabzavar of Herat, a name distinguishing it from the better-known Sabzavar near Nishapur. Scholars from the district bore the name Asfezari, including the fifteenth-century historian of Herat Muin al-Din Zamchi.