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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.
Tribes of Afghanistan (2 C, 39 P) W. Wakhi people (2 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Afghanistan" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
Kandahar in modern Afghanistan served as the empire's first capital. [8] [9] Ahmad Shah belonged to the Durrani tribe (also known as the Abdalis). At its peak, the Durrani Empire encompassed all of Afghanistan, most of Pakistan and parts of northern India (including Kashmir), northeastern Iran and eastern Turkmenistan. [10]
Between 1709 and 1738, the Hotak clan of the Ghilji tribe ruled the Hotak Empire based first in Kandahar, Afghanistan and later very briefly in Isfahan, Persia. [23] In the 16th century, Taj Khan Karrani of the Karlani tribe founded the Karrani dynasty, the last dynasty to rule the Bengal Sultanate. Several Karlani clans served in the Mughal army.
Pages in category "Tribes of Afghanistan" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Pashtun tribes" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. ... Afghan (tribal chief) Ahmadzai; B. Babai (Pashtun tribe) Babuzai ...
A tribe called Pakthās, one of the tribes that fought against Sudas in the Dasarajna, or "Battle of the Ten Kings", are mentioned in the seventh mandala of the Rigveda, a text of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dated between c. 1500 and 1200 BCE: [86] [87] Together came the Pakthas (पक्थास), the Bhalanas, the Alinas, the Sivas, the Visanins.
Kushal Khān Khaṭak, National Poet of Afghanistan who rallied the tribes of Pakhtunkhwa against the Mughal Empire of Aurangzeb; Ghazi Umra Khan of Jandul, also known as the Afghan Napoleon conquered northern Pakhtunkhwa, battling the British Empire in the Chitral Expedition and taking British soldiers as Prisoner of War