A Geography of AfghanistanCenter for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1976 - 204 pages |
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... empire over the countries south of the Hindu Kush down to northern India from Kapisa near Kabul to Taxila near Punjab . Through them , Hellenism travelled down the old road which leads into the heart of the Indian world . Following the ...
... empire over the countries south of the Hindu Kush down to northern India from Kapisa near Kabul to Taxila near Punjab . Through them , Hellenism travelled down the old road which leads into the heart of the Indian world . Following the ...
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... Empire brought the wealthy Roman traders to the East . The gold of the Roman Empire flowed into Aryana and contributed to a large extent to its prosperity and stability . The brief expansion of the Iranian - Sassanian Empire ( A.D.224 ...
... Empire brought the wealthy Roman traders to the East . The gold of the Roman Empire flowed into Aryana and contributed to a large extent to its prosperity and stability . The brief expansion of the Iranian - Sassanian Empire ( A.D.224 ...
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... empire and at other times but a small province . Ahmad Shah Durrani ( 1747-73 ) , who established the modern Afghanistan was able to create an empire north beyond the Amu , west up to Isfahan and south to the Indian Ocean including ...
... empire and at other times but a small province . Ahmad Shah Durrani ( 1747-73 ) , who established the modern Afghanistan was able to create an empire north beyond the Amu , west up to Isfahan and south to the Indian Ocean including ...
Contents
Chapter One Locational Aspects | 3 |
Chapter Three Twentieth Century Boundaries | 16 |
Chapter Four General Geology | 23 |
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1817 LIBRARIES Afghan agriculture Andkhoy Arghandab average Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamyan basin boundary canal capacity carpets Charikar construction cotton crops cubic meters cultivated Darunta deposits earthquake east eastern elevation estimated exports Farah Faryab Five Year Plan forests fruits Ghazni Girishk Hari Rud hectares Helmand Herat highway Hindu Kush important increase India industrial Iran Jalalabad Jawzjan jeribs Kabul Kandahar karakul kilometers long kilowatt-hours Kunduz Laghman land large number located Logar Maimana Mazar-i-Sharif meters per second meters wide MICHIGAN million meters Ministry of Planning Minor Civil Division mountains Murghab Nangarhar Nimroz nomads northern Nuristan Pakistan Paktia Parwan pasture population production provinces Puli Khumri Pushtun region river road Russia Salang Samangan sector Seistan Shah slopes square kilometers started survey TABLE Taloqan textile factories Third Plan tons total amount total area total number tourism trade urban USSR valleys vegetation villages Wardak wheat