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Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto: نورستان; Kamkata-vari: [a] Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It is divided into seven districts and is Afghanistan's least populous province, with a population of around 167,000. [2] Parun serves as the provincial capital.
Kalash, Kho, Pashayi. Kautiak villagers in Nuristan province with U.S. Navy commander (right) The Nuristanis are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. [ 5 ] Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian languages.
Nuristan National Park. Nuristan National Park is a national park in Afghanistan announced by the Government of Afghanistan on 5 June 2020 (coinciding with World Environment Day), making it the third in the country after Band-e Amir National Park and Wakhan National Park. [2] The Park comprises the entire mountainous eastern Province of ...
The Nuristani languages, also known as Kafiri languages, are one of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, alongside the much larger Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups. [1][2][3] They have approximately 130,000 speakers primarily in eastern Afghanistan and a few adjacent valleys in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 's Chitral District, Pakistan.
Pages in category "History of Nuristan Province". The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Futuh al-Buldan During the Second Fitna period, the Zunbil attacked Sistan in 685 but was defeated and killed by the Arabs. Abdalmalik appointed Umayya ibn Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid as governor of Khorasan in 74 AH (693-4 AD), with Sistan included under his governorship. Umayya sent his son Abdullah as head of the expedition in Sistan. Though initially successful, the new Zunbil was able to ...
0-330-24227-X. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by the English travel writer Eric Newby. It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush, around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan, ostensibly to make the first mountaineering ascent of Mir Samir. Critics have found it comic, intensely English, and understated.
The Katir [ka 'tɘ] or Kata Kafir group was numerically the most dominant group of the Siah-Posh (Persian "Black Wearer/Clothed") tribes. They owned approximately forty villages in the Bashgul valley and numbered about 40,000 (1890). The upper part of the Bashgul Valley of Nuristan (Afghanistan) is known as Katirgul.