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Afghanistan's culture is historically strongly connected to nearby Persia, including the same religion, as the people of both countries have lived together for thousands of years. Its location at the crossroads of Central , South and Western Asia historically made it a hub of diversity, dubbed by one historian as the "roundabout of the ancient ...
العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan as of 1997. Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek, as well as the minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Moghol, and others.
'goat pulling') is the national sport of Afghanistan. It is a traditional sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. Similar games are known as kokpar, kupkari, and ulak tartysh in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Game of buzkashi in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Afghan culture
H. W. Bellew, in his 1891 An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, believes that the name Afghan comes from Alban which derives from the Latin term albus, meaning "white", or "mountain", as mountains are often white-capped with snow (cf. Alps); used by Armenians as Alvan or Alwan, which refers to mountaineers, and in the case of ...
Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pashtun ethnicity; Ethnic groups in Afghanistan, people of various ethnicities that are nationally Afghan; Afghan (biscuit) Afghan (blanket) Afghan coat; Afghan cuisine; Afghan Hound, a dog breed originating in parts of Afghanistan and the surrounding regions; Afghan rug
A Vietnamese embassy was opened in Kabul in 1978 under the Afghan regime following the Saur Revolution. [1] Both the Vietnamese and Afghan republics were communist states and allies of the Soviet Union. In a January 1980 United Nations debate, Vietnam was one of only four countries to support the Soviet intervention into Afghanistan. [2]