The town is situated at a height of 7, 500 feet and surrounded by the Hindu Kush to the north and Koh-i Baba to the south.

In November 1884, the Commission crossed over the Koh-i Baba Mountains by the Chashma Sabz Pass.

It is believed that spiritual salvation is attained by receiving the ' Nur ' ( light ) through the " esoteric ", that is, spiritual search for enlightenment.

* 1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.

He was thought of allowing his wife, Nur Jahan, too much power and her continuous plotting at court is considered to have destabilized the imperium in the final years of his rule.

The Koh-i-Noor, meaning " Mountain of Light " in Persian language, also spelled Koh-i-noor, Kuh-e Nur or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105. 6 metric carats diamond, weighing 21. 6 grammes in the most recent cut state, and once the largest known diamond.

* 1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.

This is in direct opposition to how her aunt Nur Jahan had been perceived.

* April 27 – Afghanistan President Daoud Khan is killed during a military coup ; Nur Mohammed Taraki succeeds him.

* April 30 – The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan is proclaimed under pro-communist leader Nur Mohammed Taraki.

* March 23 – Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia, defending his lands against the invasion of Nur ibn Mujahid, Sultan of Harar, is killed in battle.

Balochi Nur Sur is still a popular and one of the ancient form of Overtone singing in parts of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan espcially in the Sulaiman Mountains.

* 1979 – President Nur Muhammad Taraki, leader of PDPA, is assassinated and replaced by Hafizullah Amin.

Nur Masalha, Elliot Horowitz and Josef Stern suggest that Amalekites have come to represent an " eternally irreconcilable enemy " that wants to murder Jews, and that Jews in post-biblical times sometimes associate contemporary enemies with Haman or Amalekites, and that some Jews believe that pre-emptive violence is acceptable against such enemies.

* " Nur mal Angenommen " (" Just in case ") is a monologue inside the singer's head, where he wonders what would happen if he was flexible enough to stick his head up into his anus.

It is also the title of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata ( BWV 163 ): Nur jedem das seine, which was composed for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity.

* April 1-Hassan Muhammad Nur " Shatigadud " is sworn in as President of Southwestern Somalia.

Arab historiography praises Mleh's policy, acknowledging that he benefitted more from the alliance than did Nur ad-Din, but Christian, particularly Armenian, historiography is scathing because of this Muslim alliance, wrongly identified with apostasy.

Nur ad-Dīn Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī () also known as DJāmī, Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn ' Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti who is commonly known as Jami ( August 18, 1414 – November 17, 1492 ), is known for his achievements as a scholar, mystic, writer, composer of numerous lyrics and idylls, historian, and the greatest Persian and Sufi poets of the 15th century.

Dara Nur al-Din is an Iraqi judge and politician and Minister of Justice since February 2008.

Kandahar ( Kandahar | Candahar ), Nur Jahan's place of birth, is now southern Afghanistan

The current governor of Balkh is Atta Muhammad Nur.

Nur Pak (" Pure Light ") is an epithet applied to Syed Mohammad Jaunpuri a 15th century Islamic reformer who claimed to be the mahdi.

After conquering Egypt, Nur ad-Din believed that he had accomplished his goal of uniting the Muslim states, but Saladin did not wish to be subject to his authority.

The year 1166 was relatively quiet, but Amalric sent envoys to the Byzantine Empire seeking an alliance and a Byzantine wife, and throughout the year had to deal with raids by Nur ad-Din, who captured Banias.

Over the next few years the kingdom was threatened not only by Saladin and Nur ad-Din, but also by the Hashshashin ; in one episode, the Knights Templar murdered some Hashshashin envoys, leading to further disputes between Amalric and the Templars.

They were invested with feudal authority by Sultan Nur ad-Din Zangi and furnished respectable contingents to the Muslim ranks in their struggle against the Crusaders.

In 1967, the PDPA split into two major rival factions: the Khalq ( Masses ) was headed by Nur Muhammad Taraki and Hafizullah Amin who were supported by elements within the military, and the Parcham ( Banner ) led by Babrak Karmal.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

The communist government led by Nur Mohammed Taraki responded, pulverizing the city using Soviet supplied bombers and killing an estimated 24, 000 citizens in less than a week.

Jahangir married the extremely beautiful and intelligent Mehr-ul-Nisa ( better known by her subsequent title of Nur Jahan ), in May 1611.

The fragmentation of the Muslim east allowed for the initial success of the crusade, but as the 12th century progressed, the kingdom's Muslim neighbours were united by Nur ad-Din Zangi and Saladin, who vigorously began to recapture lost territory.

The Muslim states of Syria were meanwhile gradually united by Nur ad-Din, who defeated the Principality of Antioch at the Battle of Inab in 1149 and gained control of Damascus in 1154.

According to Imad ad-Din, Nur ad-Din wrote to Saladin in June 1171, telling him to reestablish the Abbasid caliphate in Egypt, which Saladin coordinated two months later after additional encouragement by Najm ad-Din al-Khabushani, the Shafi ' i faqih, who vehemently opposed Shia rule in the country.

Yemen also served as an emergency territory, to which Saladin could flee in the event of an invasion by Nur ad-Din.

In the wake of Nur ad-Din's death, Saladin faced a difficult decision ; he could move his army against the Crusaders from Egypt or wait until invited by as-Salih in Syria to come to his aid and launch a war from there.

Meanwhile, Saladin's rivals in Syria and Jazira waged a propaganda war against him, claiming he had " forgotten his own condition of Nur ad-Din " and showed no gratitude for his old master by besieging his son, rising " in rebellion against his Lord.

The latter demanded Nur al-Din return the lands given to him as a dowry for marrying his daughter when he received reports that she was being abused and used by him to gain Seljuk territory.

Once he reached Bira, near the river, he was joined by Kukbary and Nur al-Din of Hisn Kayfa and the combined forces captured the cities of Jazira, one after the other.

This boat was rediscovered in May 1954 when archeologist Kamal el-Mallakh and inspector Zaki Nur found two ditches sealed off by about 40 blocks weighing 17 to 20 tonnes each.

Court intrigues, however, including Nur Jahan's decision to have her daughter from her first marriage wed Shah Jahan's youngest brother Shahzada Shahryar and her support for his claim to the throne led Khurram, supported by Muhabbat Khan, into open revolt against his father in 1622.

Among his other constructions are the Red Fort also called the Delhi Fort or Lal Qila in Urdu, large sections of Agra Fort, the Jama Masjid, the Wazir Khan Mosque, the Moti Masjid, the Shalimar Gardens, sections of the Lahore Fort, the Jahangir mausoleum — his father's tomb, the construction of which was overseen by his stepmother Nur Jahan and the Shahjahan Mosque.

Khaled Fayez Suleiman abu-Zahra, 17, of Nur al-Shams refugee camp, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest and abdomen.