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| Abdur Rahman Khan |
Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901 (b.1844?--d.1901). |
| Afghan |
of or having to do with Afghanistan or with its people, culture, language, or the like. [2/3 definitions] |
| afghani |
the chief monetary unit of Afghanistan, equaling one hundred puls. |
| Afghanistan |
a country in south central Asia. Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan. |
| Dari |
the dialect of Persian spoken in Afghanistan and one of its two official languages, the other being Pashto. |
| Farsi |
the language of Iran and part of Afghanistan. |
| Kabul |
the capital city of Afghanistan. |
| Kashmir |
a southwestern Asian region between Afghanistan and Tibet, the object of conflicting territorial claims by India and Pakistan; Jammu and Kashmir. |
| khan1 |
a traditional title of respect given to officials or rulers in Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, and other Asian countries. [1/2 definitions] |
| Meena Keshwar Kamal |
Afghan poet and activist, who was assassinated ten years after founding the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (b. 1956--d.1987). |
| Middle East |
the region along the southeastern and eastern border of the Mediterranean Sea, from Libya in North Africa to Afghanistan in Asia. |
| Pashto |
an Iranian language of Indo-European origin that is the main vernacular of eastern Afghanistan and parts of western Pakistan. |
| pul |
the smaller monetary unit of Afghanistan. (Cf. afghani.) |
| sirdar |
in India, Afghanistan, or Pakistan, a military leader. [1/2 definitions] |
| Tajikistan |
a Central Asian country on the northern border of Afghanistan. The capital of Tajikistan is Dushanbe. |
| Taliban |
a Muslim fundamentalist group that controlled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001. |
| Turkmenistan |
a Central Asian country bordered on the west by the Caspian Sea and on the south by Iran and Afghanistan. The capital of Turkmenistan is Ashgabat. |
| Uzbekistan |
a country in central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the north and Afghanistan to the south. The capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent. |
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