Wakhan
Wakhan Wakhan is a very mountainous and rugged part of the Pamir region. Geography Wakhan is located in and around the extreme ... by a long, narrow strip called the Wakhan Corridor, which separates the Gorno-Badakhshan region ... from the Tarim Basin to Badakshan. Western Wakhan (Xiumi) was conquered in the early ...
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Wakhan Corridor
Wakhan Corridor The Wakhan Corridor (also spelt as Vakhan; وخ ... India during the Great Game. Historically the Wakhan has been an important region for thousands ... of the Oxus River: Journey to the Wakhan Pamir & Across Dilisang Pass to Misgar (2004 ...
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Badakhshan
... in the east of Afghanistan, containing the Wakhan Corridor. A part of Badakhshan is located ... expressly acknowledged "Badakhshan with its dependent district Wakhan" as "fully belonging to the amir of ... boundaries of those provinces and those of Wakhan were no longer coincident with their geographical ... on the east Charan, Ishkashim, Zebak and Wakhan; and in the centre Faizabad, Farkhar, Minjan ...
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User:LinkBot/suggestions/Timeline of Islamic history
... military occupation. ... (link to section) Can link Wakhan corridor: ...0]]: End of Banbara State. * [[1895]]: Afghanistan got Wakhan corridor by an understanding with Russia and ... section) Can link British India: ...tan got Wakhan corridor by an understanding with Russia and ...
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Badakhshan   (translated from German)
... of the province, in the so-called Wakhan passage the mountain of Afghanistan highest with ... and runs far over Baharak in the Wakhan Zipfel. It represents the main binding for ...
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Yarkand
... route headed southwest via Tashkurghan to the Wakhan corridor from where travellers could cross the ... and Wulei (centred on Sarhad in the Wakhan), you arrive among the Da Yuezhi (Kushans ...
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Wakhi (ethnic group)
... ethnic group) The Wakhi are inhabitants of Wakhan. An ethnic group consisting of speakers of ... to Closed Frontiers and War See also Wakhan Corridor Northern Areas of Pakistan
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Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province
... Pakistan by the narrow, but nearly impassable, Wakhan Corridor. Another road leads from Khorog into the Wakhan and across the Afghan border. External link ...
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Pamir Mountains
... and Pakistan. South of Gorno-Badakhshan, the Wakhan Corridor runs through the Pamir region, which ... Coward McCann 1964 See also Pamir Languages Wakhan External links Information and photos The Pamirs ...
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Wakhi
Wakhi Adjective; of or relating to Wakhan, the extreme northeastern region of Afghanistan that ... of the majority of the people of Wakhan. The Wakhi ethnic group, consisting of speakers ...
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