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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.
The following is a list of Pashtun or Afghan empires and dynasties. It includes states, princely states, empires and dynasties in the regions of Central, Western and South Asia which were founded by rulers or dynasties of Pashtun origin. This list also includes rulers and dynasties who are of disputed origin.
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.
Present-day location of Afghanistan in Asia. The history of Afghanistan includes the complete history of the modern-day nation of Afghanistan, from prehistory up to the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistan in 1823 and to the present time. This history is largely shared with that of Central Asia, Persia, and the Indian subcontinent.
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
According to some books written on the history of the Pashtuns, it is either unclear or controversial. [7] The Karlani confederacy Ormur Baraki, who became the progenitor of the Karlani. [8]: 33 There are several levels of the Pashtun tribal organization. The "tribe" is subdivided into kinship groups, each of which is a khel and zai.
The Hazaras are an ethnic group who inhabit and originate from Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region, located in central parts of Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan. However, there are significant and large minorities of them in Pakistan and Iran , notably in Quetta , Pakistan and Mashhad , Iran.
The following is a list of notable Afghan people, which includes all the ethnic groups of the modern state of Afghanistan.Afghanistan has gone through territorial changes. This list generally excludes Ethnic Pashtuns who originate from regions that were not controlled by Afghanistan at the time, though there are exceptions for certain figures who are prominent to Pashtun