In the early 1990s, after the Soviet withdraw from Afghanistan, control of Mazar was contested by the Hazara milita Hezbe Wahdat, led by Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq, the Tajik militia Jamiat-e Islami, led by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani, and the Uzbek militia Jumbesh-e Melli led by Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Under Dostum's 5 year rule from the early 1990s to early 1997, Mazar was an oasis of peace.

This peace was shattered in May 1997, when he was betrayed by one of his generals, Abdul Malik Pahlawan, forcing him to flee from Mazar as the Taliban were getting ready to take the city.

It was this capture of Mazar, the last major city in Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban, that prompted Pakistan's recognition of the Taliban regime.

Following 9 / 11, Mazar Sharif was the first Afghan city to fall to the Northern Alliance ( United Front ).

On November 9, 2001 the city was officially captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance forces after the Battle of Mazar e Sharif with help from the United States Special Operations Forces and bombing by U. S. Air Force aircraft.

Mazara was founded by the Phoenicians in the 9th century BC, with the name of Mazar ( the Rock ).

According to Mazar, "" It's the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel ," and " It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction.

Mazar was a contestant on the ninth season of Dancing With the Stars.

The family divides their time between their home in Los Angeles and a 14th-century house outside of Florence, Italy, that was given to them as a wedding present by Mazar ’ s in-laws.

* Taliban officials met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Najmuddin ShaikhThe subject discussed as during Mr. Shaikh's meeting with Dostum and Dr. Abdullah in Mazar Sharif a day earlier was the working out of ceasefire arrangements between the contending factions in Afghanistan and suggesting talks with the Northern Alliance for the formation of a coalition government

At the beginning of July, it was estimated there were at least 28, 000 Ottoman troops in the Gaza – Beersheba area of southern Palestine, and that just before the battle began at Romani, there were 3, 000 troops at Oghratina, not far from Katia, another 6, 000 at the forward base of Bir el Abd, east of Oghratina, 2, 000 to 3, 000 at Bir Bayud to the south-east, and another 2, 000 at Bir el Mazar, some to the east, not far from El Arish.

The nearest Ottoman garrison of 2, 000 men was at Bir el Mazar east of Romani, and on 9 July, a patrol found Bir Salmana unoccupied.

But from Salmana to Bir el Mazar, ( from Kantara ) there was little water, and beyond the Mazar area there was no water, till El Arish was reached on the coast from Kantara.

Bir el Mazar was about half way between Kantara on the Suez Canal and the Egyptian-Ottoman territorial border.

For the rest of the campaign, which ended with the Vichy French surrender on 11 July, the division was engaged with the support of Australian units in attempts to force the Damascus to Beirut road through the Anti-Lebanon mountains the entrance to which was dominated by the high Jebel Mazar.

Deborah " Debi " Mazar ( or ; born August 13, 1964 ) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her Jersey Girl-type roles ; as sharp-tongued women in independent films ; and for her recurring role as press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage.

* Debi Mazar ( born 1964 ), actress

Amihai " Ami " Mazar () ( born 1942 ) is an Israeli archaeologist.

Benjamin Mazar (, born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906-September 9, 1995 ) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the " dean " of biblical archaeologists.

Mazar was born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire.

George L. Kelm ( born 1931 -) is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology and Biblical Backgrounds at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, and while serving at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, he and Amihai Mazar uncovered Timnah.

Mazar began her career as a hip hop b-girl in New York City.

It was uncovered through 1977-1979 by Amihai Mazar and George L. Kelm while Kelm was serving as professor of Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, on a dig sponsored by the Seminary.

Kelm was serving as professor of Biblical Backgrounds and Archaeology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary when he and Amihai Mazar uncovered biblical Timnah, Tel Batash in the Sorek Valley of Israel through 1977-1979.

Deb DeAngelo ( Debi Mazar ), a young woman is desperate for a luxurious, cheaply priced New York City apartment.

Although later rebuilt, Mazar stood in the shadow of its neighbor Balkh.

Between May and July 1997, the Taliban unsuccessfully attempted to take Mazar, leading to approximately 3, 000 Taliban soldiers being executed or massacred by Abdul Malik and his Shia followers.

The Taliban's defeat in Mazar quickly turned into a rout from the rest of the north and west of Afghanistan.

After some pressure, an office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission opened an office in Mazar in April 2003.

Other archaeologists in Israel, including Amnon Ben-Tor, Amihai Mazar, William Dever and Lawrence Stager, reject this theory, claiming that it is contradicted by scientific understandings of strata formulation and the general development of the region, and that the theory relies overmuch on pottery seriation, a technique for dating sites using ceramic remains, which is a relative dating technique rather than a reliable technique such as carbon dating.

637 – 56 in “ I Will Speak the Riddles of Ancient Times ” ( Ps 78: 2b ): Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, A. M. Maeir and P. de Miroschedji, eds.

258 – 79 in Up to the Gates of Ekron: Essays on the Archaeology and History of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honor of Seymour Gitin, S. White Crawford, A. Ben-Tor, J. P. Dessel, W. G. Dever, A. Mazar, and J. Aviram, eds.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.