Islamic conquest of Afghanistan

•  Durrani Empire

  The Durrani Empire was a monarchy state centered in modern Afghanistan and included northeastern Iran, the modern state of Pakistan as well as the Punjab region of India. It was established at Kandahar in 1747 by an Afghan military commander, Ahmad Shah Durrani. After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1773, the Emirship was passed onto his children followed by grandchildren.

  

  40.0%
  

  30.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Cemetery H culture

  The Cemetery H culture developed out of the northern part of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1900 BCE, in and around western Punjab region located in present-day India and Pakistan. It was named after a cemetery found in "area H" at Harappa. The Cemetery H culture is part of the Punjab Phase, one of three cultural phases that developed in the Localization Era of the Indus Valley Tradition. It is considered to be part of the Late Harrappan phase.

  

  27.3%
  

  36.4%
  

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•  European influence in Afghanistan

  The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and sometimes imperialistic influence several European nations have had on this historical development of Afghanistan.

  

  44.4%
  

  22.2%
  

  33.3%
  
•  East Pakistan

  East Pakistan was a province of Pakistan between 1947 and 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal Province based on a plebiscite in what was then British India in 1947. Eastern Bengal chose to join the Dominion of Pakistan and became a province of Pakistan by the name East Bengal. East Bengal, also comprised East Pakistan in 1956 and later became the independent country of Bangladesh after the bloody Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, which took place after General Elections of 1970.

  

  37.5%
  

  37.5%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Koh-i-Noor

  The Kōh-i Nūr which means "Mountain of Light" from Persian, also spelled Kohinoor, Koh-e Noor or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105 carat (21.6 g) diamond that was once the largest known diamond in the world. The Kohinoor originated at Kollur, Guntur district in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It has belonged to various Hindu, Mughal, Persian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it at various points in history and seized it as a spoil of war time and again.

  

  36.4%
  

  27.3%
  

  36.4%
  
•  Mehrgarh

  Mehrgarh, one of the most important Neolithic sites in archaeology, lies on what is now the "Kachi plain" of today's Balochistan, Pakistan. It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming (wheat and barley) and herding (cattle, sheep and goats) in South Asia.".

  

  37.5%
  

  18.8%
  

  43.8%
  
•  History of Pakistan

  The first known inhabitants of the modern-day Pakistan region are believed to have been the Soanian - Homo erectus, who settled in the Soan Valley and Riwat almost 2 million years ago. Over the next several thousand years, the region would develop into various civilizations like Mehrgarh and the Indus Valley Civilization. Throughout its history, the region has also been apart of various Greek, Persian, Turkic, Islamic and British empires.

  

  20.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Seleucid Empire

  The Seleucid Empire was the eastern remnant of the former Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great. The Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic empire centered in the Near East in the region of the Asian part of the earlier Achaemenid Persian Empire. At the height of its power it included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir and parts of Pakistan.

  

  23.5%
  

  47.1%
  

  29.4%
  
•  Hindu Kush

  The Hindu Kush is a 500-mile mountain range stretching between north-western Pakistan and eastern and central Afghanistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in the Chitral region of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is the westernmost extension of the Pamir Mountains, the Karakoram Range, and is a sub-range of the Himalayas. It is also calculated to be the geographic center of population of the world.

  

  50.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  10.0%
  
•  Bactria

  Bactria or Bactriana, later variously Tukharistan, Tokharistan, and Tocharistan, was the ancient name of a historical region in Central Asia, located between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya. It was a part of the northeastern periphery of the Iranian world, now part of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and, as a smaller part, Turkmenistan. The region was once host to religions like Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.

  

  45.5%
  

  27.3%
  

  27.3%
  

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•  Ohtlikud mängud

  Ohtlikud mängud (The Dangerous Games) is a 1974 film directed by Veljo Käsper and starring Leonhard Merzin & Jüri Järvet. It is also known under its Russian name, Opasnye Igry (Опасные игры).

  

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•  Barbezières

  Barbezières is a commune in the Charente department in south-western France.

  

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•  La Ferté-Vidame

  La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France.

  

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•  Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje

  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Celje Latin: Celeien(sis); Slovene: Škofija Celje is a diocese located in the city of Celje in the Ecclesiastical province of Maribor in Slovenia.

  

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•  Sigfigs

  

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