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Gurjar. The Gurjar (or Gujjar, Gujar, Gurjara [1]) are an Indo-Aryan [2] [3] agricultural [4] ethnic community, residing mainly in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, [5] divided internally into various clan groups. [5] They were traditionally involved in agriculture, pastoral and nomadic [6] [7] [8] activities and formed a large heterogeneous ...
Description. The border begins at the tripoint with Turkmenistan in the Harirud river before proceeding overland just to the east of the Iranian town of Taybad.The border then follows a series of short straight lines, passing through the Daryache-ye Namakzar and the Daqq-e Patergan salt lakes; two ‘beaks’ of Iranian territory protrude into Afghanistan along this section.
The Treaty of Gandamak ( Dari: معاهده گندمک, Pashto: د گندمک تړون) officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Afghan emir Mohammad Yaqub Khan ceded various frontier areas as well as Afghanistan 's control of its foreign affairs to the British Raj . It was signed on 26 May 1879 by King Mohammad ...
v. t. e. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following acts committed ...
Biography. She was the daughter of Abdullah ibn Abdshams and Fatima bint Wahb [1] and a member of the Adi clan of the Quraysh in Mecca. [2] She married Abu Hathma ibn Hudhayfa, and they had two sons, Sulayman and Masruq. [1] She had a reputation as a wise woman. Her by-name Al-Shifaa means "the Healer, " indicating that she practiced folk ...
The Hazaras are an ethnic group who inhabit and originate from Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region, located in central parts of Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan.
Casualties and losses. 5,000–15,000 [4] [7] Unknown. The Battle of Gulnabad ( Pashto: ده ګلونآبد جنګ, romanized: Dh Gulonābād Džng; Persian: نبرد گلونآباد, romanized : Nabard-e Golūnābād) was fought between the military forces from Hotaki Dynasty and the army of the Safavid Empire on Sunday, March 8, 1722.
Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan, and the second-largest in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. They speak varieties of Persian, a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. [18] In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups ...