🏠 Darulaman

Darulaman is a locality on the south-western fringes of Kabul, Afghanistan, forming part of District 6. The suburb was a planned city built in the 1920s during the reign of Amanullah Khan. Amanullah sought to turn Darulaman into a new modern capital city, and hired German companies and engineers to build roads, bridges and other infrastructure. The construction of the suburb amounted to an estimated cost of ten million rupees, which was a third of the state's annual income at the time. Thus, Darulaman and other ambitious projects were crucial factors behind Amanullah's tax reforms to increase revenues.