DID YOU KNOW? 💡 Ghazni historically known as Ghaznain (غزنين) or Ghazna (غزنه), also transliterated as Ghuznee is a city in southeastern Afghanistan. The name Ghazni drives from the Persian word “ganj”, meaning ‘treasure’. In the 6th century BCE, it was conquered by the Achaemenid king Cyrus II as part of the Persian Empire. The city was subsequently incorporated into the empire of Alexander the Great in 329 BCE, and called Alexandria in Opiana. For nearly two hundred years (977–1186 CE), the city was the dazzling capital of the Ghaznavid Empire, which encompassed much of what is today north eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Eastern Iran and Rajasthan. In the first decades of the 11th century, Ghazni was the most important center of Persian literature. This was the result of the cultural policy of Sultan Mahmud (reigned 998–1030), who assembled a circle of scholars, philosophers, and poets around his throne in support of his claim to royal status in Iran. Mahm...