Afgantsy : The Russians in Afghanistan, Rodric Braithwaite, pp. 206, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-991151-6, ... Charikar, known for its grapes and its pottery, where Captain Codrington and his Gurkhas were massacred during the First Anglo-Afghan War ...
The Cambridge History of Iran, pp. 318, Cambridge University Press, 1968, ISBN 978-0-521-06936-6, ... Learning that a Mongol army under the two generals Tekechuk and Molghor was laying seige to a castle in the Walian Kotal (to the north-west of Charikar) he led an attack against them and had killed a thousand men of the Mongol vanguard before they withdrew across the river (apparently the Ghorband) ...
Bazaar Politics: Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town, Noah Coburn, pp. 8, Stanford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8047-7672-1, ... Colonel Haughton noted in his account leading up to the siege of Charikar in 1841 that the areas around Charikar and Istalif were dominated by large, mud qala (fort) architecture ...
