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Afghan (ethnonym), Afghan
Afghan of Afgan may refer to: Related to Afghanistan *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia (of any ethnicity) **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 People Given name * Afghan Muhammad (died 1648), Afghan khan in modern day Russia Surname * Sediq Afghan (born 1958), Afghan philosopher * Asghar Afghan (born 1987), former Afghan cricketer * Azad Khan Afghan (died 1781), Afghan commander and ruler Stage name * Afgansyah Reza (born 1989), Indonesian musician also known as "Afgan" Other uses * ''The Afghan'', a 2006 thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth * Afghan (Australia), camel drivers from Afghanistan and Pakistan who came to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghans
Afghans ( ps, افغانان, translit=afghanan; Persian/ prs, افغان ها, translit=afghānhā; Persian: افغانستانی, romanized: ''Afghanistani'') or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry from there. Afghanistan is made up of various ethnicities, of which the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks are the largest; the pre-nation state, historical ethnonym Afghan was used to refer to a member of the Pashtun ethnic group. Due to the changing political nature of the state, such as the British-drawn border with Pakistan (then British India) the meaning has changed, and term has shifted to be the national identity of people from Afghanistan from all ethnicities. The two main languages spoken by Afghans are Pashto and Dari (the Afghan dialect of Persian language), and many are bilingual. Background The earliest mention of the name ''Afghan'' (''Abgân'') is by Shapur I of the Sassanid Empire during the 3rd century CE, In the 4th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azad Khan Afghan
Azād Khān Afghān (Persian, ps, آزاد خان افغان), or Azād Shāh Afghān () (died 1781), was a Pashtun military commander and a major contender for supremacy in western Iran after the death of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747.Perry, J. R. (1987), "Āzād Khan Afḡān", in: ''Encyclopædia Iranica'', Vol. III, Fasc. 2, pp. 173-174Online(Accessed February 20, 2012). Azad rose to power between 1752 and 1757, and had his power base in the Azarbaijan region (at various points in his career occupying parts of Central and Western Iran, as well as Kurdistan and Gilan). Azad was a contemporary of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of the Durrani Empire. Early life career Azad was born in Andar town in the east of Ghazni, Afghanistan, into the Andar clan of the Ghilji Pashtun confederacy. He was reportedly a descendant of Mirwais Hotak. He joined Nader Shah's army around 1738 and took part in his campaigns in India and Iran. At the time of Nader's murder, he was second-in-command to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghan (other)
Ghan or ''variation'', may refer to: Places * Ghan, Northern Territory, a locality in Australia * Ghan towns, a name sometimes used for settlements of Afghan cameleers in Australia People * Ghans, a name sometimes used for Afghan cameleers in Australia * Emiliano Ghan (born 1995) Uruguayan soccer player Fictional characters * Ghân-buri-Ghân (aka ''Ghân''), a character from J.R.R.Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' Rail * The Ghan, an Australian passenger train service * ''The Old Ghan'', an informal name for the former Central Australia Railway *''Old Ghan'', a steam train tourist service in Australia - see Pichi Richi Railway *Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum, a railway museum in Alice Springs, Central Australia. See also * * * Gahan * Gahn * Afghan (other) Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity **Afghan (ethnonym), the hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghani (other)
Afghani may refer to: *Afghan afghani, the official currency of Afghanistan ** An ''Afghan'', a person or thing of, from, or related to Afghanistan (although this usage is viewed as improper) * al-Afghani, a ''nisba'' denoting a person from Afghanistan * Pashto language * Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muslim nationalist and modernist in the late 19th century * Jamila Afghani, Afghan feminist and women's rights activist * Sajjad Afghani, Pakistani militant See also * * * Afghan (other) Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity ** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ... * Ghani (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Girl
''Afghan Girl'' is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, famously appeared on the June 1985 cover of '' National Geographic''. While the portrait's subject initially remained unknown, she was identified by early 2002: Gula, an ethnic Pashtun from Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province, was a 12-year-old child residing in Pakistan's Nasir Bagh. In light of the Cold War, the portrait was described as "the First World's Third World ''Mona Lisa''" in reference to the 16th-century painting of the same name by Leonardo da Vinci. Gula's image became "emblematic" in some social circles as the "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" that was deserving of compassion from the Western viewer, and also as a symbol of Afghanistan to the West. Cover photo for ''National Geographic'' Sharbat Gula was one of the student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan Breakdown
''Afghan Breakdown'' (russian: Афганский излом, translit. Afganskiy Izlom) is a 1991 war drama film about the Soviet–Afghan War directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union ( Lenfilm). Michele Placido plays the protagonist, Major Bandura, a commander of a unit of Soviet paratroopers, co-starring with several popular Soviet actors. The movie is still regarded by many movie critics as the best account of the war, despite newer box-office hits such as ''The 9th Company''. Director Vladimir Bortko invited Mikhail Leshchinskiy (a Soviet TV war reporter who worked in Afghanistan for 4.5 years) as a co-writer and visited Kabul and Kandahar in 1988 to research on the ground. at The Pages of the Afghan History website (in Russian) Plot |
Afghan, Iran
Afghan ( fa, افغان, also Romanized as Āfghān) is a village in Kambel-e Soleyman Rural District, in the Central District of Chabahar County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 134, in 27 families. References Populated places in Chabahar County {{Chabahar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan (Australia)
Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" ( ps, افغانان) or "Ghans" ( ps, غانز), were camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-year intervals, to service the Australian inland pastoral industry by carting goods and transporting wool bales by camel trains. They were commonly referred to as "Afghans", even though a lot of them originated from the far western parts of British India, primarily Balochistan and the NWFP (now Pakistan), which was inhabited by ethnic Pashtuns and Balochs. Nonetheless, many were from Afghanistan itself as well. In addition, there were also some with origins in Egypt and Turkey.Afghan cameleers in Australia 3rd September 2009. Australia.gov. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Afghan
''The Afghan'' is a 2006 thriller novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth. Plot summary A joint operation by MI6, the CIA, and Pakistan's ISI against al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan uncovers documents concerning a planned terrorist attack codenamed "al-Isra". The cryptic nature of the codename triggers further investigations authorised at the most senior level. Now eager to learn more about al Qaeda's plans for al-Isra, MI6 and CIA scramble to find out information through their various contacts, including inserting an operative close enough into the terror network's confidence. Middle Eastern scholar Dr. Terry Martin, who is part of a special committee studying the Koran for references to al-Isra, accidentally mentions that his elder brother Mike, a retired Paras and SAS officer, can pass for an Afghan native; Mike's chestnut-brown complexion, which he inherited from his mother and maternal grandmother, is indeed a perfect match. The elder Martin also has a near-perfect c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afgansyah Reza
Afgansyah Reza better known by his mononym Afgan (born 27 May 1989) is an Indonesian singer and actor of Minangkabau people, Minangkabau descent. Early life and career Afgansyah Reza was born on 27 May 1989 in Jakarta and into a Muslim musical family of Minangkabau people, Minangkabau origin, although he never had any vocal training. He is the second of four children from Loyd Yahya and Lola Purnama. His career began when he and a few friends decided to record a private album at Wanna B Instant Recording Studio. The producers at the studio offered him a contract when they heard him sing. His first album, ''Confession No.1'', was a mix of jazz, pop, and Contemporary R&B, R&B influences and including tracks, such as "Terima Kasih Cinta", "Klise", "Sadis", and "Tanpa Batas Waktu". A music video of the song "Terima Kasih Cinta" was produced by and directed by Jose Purnomo. He won the Best Solo Male Vocalist Award for the song at the Anugerah Musik Indonesia, 2009 Anugerah Musik I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asghar Afghan
Mohammad Asghar Afghan ( ps, محمد اصغر افغان), is a former Afghan cricket, cricketer and former captain of the Afghanistan national cricket team. Asghar is a right-handed batsman (cricket), batsman and a Seam bowling, medium-fast bowler. In May 2018, he was named as the captain of Afghanistan, for their inaugural Test cricket, Test match, played Afghan cricket team in India in 2018, against India. He made his Test debut for Afghanistan, against India, on 14 June 2018. On 2 August 2018, he changed his last name from Stanikzai to Afghan. In April 2019, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) dropped him as captain of the Afghanistan team across all three formats. However, in December 2019, the ACB reappointed Asghar Afghan as the captain of the Afghanistan cricket team across all formats. In March 2021, during the series Zimbabwean cricket team against Afghanistan in the UAE in 2020–21, against Zimbabwe, Afghan played in his List of Afghanistan Twenty20 International cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afghan (ethnonym)
The ethnonym Afghan (Persian/Pashto: ) has been used historically to refers to members of the Pashtuns. However, since the second half of the twentieth century, the term "Afghan" is also used to refer to any native or inhabitant of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnic group. Etymology Some modern scholars suggest that the word "Afghan" is derived from the words ''awajan/apajan'' in Avestan and ''ava-Han/apa-Han'' in Sanskrit, which means "killing, striking, throwing and resisting, or defending." Under the Sasanians, and possibly the Parthian Empire, the word was used to refer to men of a certain Persian sect. The earliest mention of the name ''Afghan'' (''Abgân'') is by Shapur I of the Sassanid Empire during the 3rd century CE, In the 4th century the word "Afghans/Afghana" (αβγανανο) as a reference to a particular people is mentioned in the Bactrian documents found in Northern Afghanistan. In the past, several scholars sought a connection wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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