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Kārte Naw

neighborhood of Kabul in Afghanistan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ6454300 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karte Naw (Dari: کارته نو; New Quarter), historically known as Sayed Noor Muhammad Shah Maina (Pashto: سید نور محمدشاه مینه), is a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is within the 8th District of the city, to the east of Chaman-e-Hozori.

History

Karte Naw was initially developed in the 1950s as an eastern urban expansion from Shah Shahid.

The area was once one of Kabul's most prosperous. However, it became a main arena of battle between Mujahideen groups in the 1990s.

Postal code

The area's government postal code is 1005.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kārte Naw” as neighborhood of Kabul in Afghanistan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kārte, neighborhood and Kabul.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kārte, neighborhood and Kabul providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6454300. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kārte Naw” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.