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The graveyard of empires is a sobriquet often associated with Afghanistan. It originates from the several historical examples of foreign powers having been unable to achieve military victory in Afghanistan in the modern period, including the British Empire , the Soviet Union and, most recently, the United States .
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95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...
Benin Empire: 1180: 1897: 717 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State 1911 1924 7 (broken up from 1915 to 1921) Bornu Empire: 1380: 1893: 513 Empire of Brazil: 1822: 1889: 67 Britannic Empire: 286: 296: 10 British Empire: 1583: 1997: 414 Bruneian Empire: 1368: 1888: 520 Bukhara Empire: 1501: 1785: 284 Bulgarian Empire (Great Bulgaria ...
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Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी; Cymraeg
Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Արեւմտահայերէն; Avañe'ẽ; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса
By focusing on those deaths, the concept of a graveyard makes a bit more sense in that Afghanistan is rather literally the place where multiple empires have sent their soldiers to die, and at least in centuries past, to be buried. British casualties alone likely exceed 15,000 deaths. Very few of those bodies were returned to Britain for burial.