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Daizangi
Daizangi ( prs, دایزنگی) is one of the large and historical residential areas of Hazaristan (Hazarajat) which is located in the central regions of Afghanistan. Geography Daizangi includes Panjab (Bamyan), Waras (Bamyan), Yakawlang (Bamyan), Lal Sarjangal (Ghor) and part of Sharistan (Daikundi). Demographics The residents of Dairangi are Hazara people who speak Hazaragi and Dari dialects of the Persian. Famous people from Daizangi * Abdul Ali Mazari * Qorban Kohestani * Zahir Howaida * General Khodaidad * Murad Ali Murad Lt. Gen. Murad Ali Murad ( prs, مرادعلی مراد) is a military personnel in Afghanistan, previously serving as Deputy Interior Minister for Security. The ceremony took place at the Ministry of Defense on 18 May 2017. Functions Gen. ... * Jafar Mahdavi * Safdar Tawakoli See also * Daizangi tribe References {{reflist Hazarajat Hazara people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daizangi (Hazara Tribe)
Daizangi, also spelled as Dai Zangi, ( prs, دایزنگی), is one of the major tribes of the Hazaras of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan. They inhabit the Bamyan, Yakawlang, Panjab and Waras districts of Bamyan Province, the Shahristan in Daikundi Province, and Lal Wa Sarjangal in Ghor Province. The 19th-century Hazara Mir Elkhani, Mir Naser Beg, Mir Azeem Beg was the mir of the Daizangi who led the final battle of the Hazaras against Abdur Rahman Khan in the battle of Uruzgan. He was exiled to Bokhara in present-day Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ..., where he wrote his memoirs "Yad e Guzishta", Memories of the past. The Daizangi sub-tribes include the Bubali, Gedi, Kamyaba, Kut-daghi, Khushamadi, Kirigu, Miramur, Qaraqul Daghi, Sag Deh, Sag Jui, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazara People
The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan. They are one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan, and are also significant minority groups in neighboring Pakistan, mostly in Quetta, and as well as in Iran. They speak the Hazaragi dialect of Persian, which is mutually intelligible with Dari, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. Hazaras are considered to be one of the most persecuted groups in Afghanistan, and their persecution has occurred various times across previous decades. Etymology The etymology of the word "Hazara" remains disputed, but some have differing views on the term. *Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire in the early 16th century, records the name "Hazara" in Baburnama. He has mentioned "Hazara" as "Turkoman Hazaras" se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamyan Province
Bamyan Province ( prs, ولایت بامیان) also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central highlands of the Afghanistan. The terrain in Bamyan is mountainous or semi-mountainous, at the western end of the Hindu Kush mountains concurrent with the Himalayas. The province is divided into eight districts, with the town of Bamyan serving as its capital. The province has a population of about 495,557 and borders Samangan to the north, Baghlan, Parwan and Wardak to the east, Ghazni and Daykundi to the south, and Ghor and Sar-e Pol to the west. It is the largest province in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan and is the cultural capital of the Hazara ethnic group that predominates in the area. It was a center of commerce and Buddhism in the 4th and 5th centuries. In antiquity, central Afghanistan was strategically placed to thrive from the Silk Road caravans that crisscrossed the region, trading between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lal Wa Sarjangal District
Lal wa Sarjangal (La'l wa Sarjangal), ( prs, لعل و سرجنگل) is a district in the north-east of Ghor province in central Afghanistan. The district center is the town of La'l. Demographics The population of Ashtarlay is made up of ethnic Hazara people. Early history Traditionally, in the feudal Hazara society prior to the 1888–1893 massacre of the Hazaras, Lal wa Sarjangal was part of the Greater Daizangi region ruled in parts by feudal chiefs known as Mirs and Begs. The country's grazing land had historically proven to be useful for maintaining large armies by the Mirs and Begs. Prominent Hazara Mirs and Begs of the old days include Nauroz Beg and Yusuf Beg who hold considerable respect in the local folklore. 20th century During the period that followed the genocide by Abdul Rahman and the failure of state following assassination of Nadir Khan, the hazara elite came to an uneasy settlement with the Kabul government. District governors almost always Pashtun were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Languages
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safdar Tawakoli
Safdar Tawakoli ( fa, صفدر توکلی); (born 1942 in Yakawlang, Bamyan) is an ethnic Hazara musician from Afghanistan. He focuses and plays mostly Hazara folkloric and regional traditional music based on the dambura. Early life Safdar Tawakoli was born in 1942, in Yakawlang, Bamyan, Afghanistan to a family of moderate means. His interest in music was nurtured during his youth, but he had to overcome the conservative tradition and religious restrictions of his local culture. Despite these, he pursued his field of interest and became a devoted artist. He always admired and in some cases envied the popularity of national singers. He mastered the " dambura", a regional long necked stringed instrument popular among the Hazaras of central Afghanistan. Career In pursuit of a career in music, he left Bamyan to run a music store in Kabul that sold cassettes. It was his hard work and talent that led him to the studios of Radio Kabul and Afghanistan's National Television, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jafar Mahdavi
Jafar Mahdavi ( prs, جعفر مهدوی) is an Afghan politician. He was the representative of Kabul province during the 16th term of Afghanistan Parliament in 2010 and a member of the Enlightenment Movement of Afghanistan. Early life Jafar Mahdavi was born in 1974 in Lal wa Sarjangal, Ghor, Afghanistan. He completed his university education up to his doctorate in sociology from University of Tehran in Tehran, 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 ... in 2005. References Living people 1974 births Hazara politicians People from Ghor Province {{Afghanistan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murad Ali Murad
Lt. Gen. Murad Ali Murad ( prs, مرادعلی مراد) is a military personnel in Afghanistan, previously serving as Deputy Interior Minister for Security. The ceremony took place at the Ministry of Defense on 18 May 2017. Functions Gen. Murad has been responsible for the Afghanistan National Army since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 in various parts of the country. He worked as Deputy Chief of Army Staff Afghanistan of the Afghan National Army, appointed to this command since 2015 after succeeding General Sher Mohammad Karimi. He was dismissed on 22 May 2018. Murad then briefly served as the commander of the Kabul garrison. He was appointed as governor of Daykundi Province on 13 July 2021. * Deputy Commander of 203rd Corps (Afghanistan) (2006-2007) * Commander 209th Corps (Afghanistan) (2007-2010) * Commander of Afghan Ground Forces (2010-2015) * Deputy chief of staff of the Afghan National Army (ANA) (2015-2018) * Deputy interior minister for security (18 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Khodaidad
General Khodaidad ( fa, خدایداد) is a former Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan. Early life and education He was born to an ethnic Hazara family in Shahristan District, Daykundi (Uruzgan) in central Afghanistan, the son of Gholam Ali, a farmer. Khodaidad completed his primary education at Shahristan Primary School in 1967. During that time the Hazara people hardly advanced to higher education in Kabul due to tribal discrimination in the country. There were no schools for the Hazaras, and it was very difficult to go to Kabul and study. The Hazara areas were under immense pressure from the Central government, who were not supportive and intentionally did not provide educational facilities in the Hazara-based areas. This meant the Hazara people had limited opportunity to develop and go on to further education. In particular, it was very difficult to get places in the army, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice and any key roles in the government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahir Howaida
Zahir Howaida, also spelled as Zahir Huwaida (Dari: ) (February 28, 1945 – 5 March 2012), was an Afghan musician. He had been active since the 1960s and his popularity peaked with the hit songs "Kamar Bareek-e-Man" and "Shanidam Az Inja Safar Mikoni." Howaida was renowned for his deep, soulful voice. Almost all his songs were in the Persian language. Aside from singing he also worked as a radio news anchor, poet, and as an actor on Afghanistan's television. In his later years, he lived a secluded life in Germany and seldom performed until his death there. Early life Muhammad Zahir Howaida was born in 1945 in Waras, in southern Bamyan province to a Hazara family. After his birth, his father moved the family to Kabul and thereafter transferred to the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in the Balkh province of northern Afghanistan. While in Mazar-e-Sharif, Zahir Howaida entered the first grade at the Sultan Ghiassuddin Elementary school in 1953. The same year Zahir's father died at the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qorban Kohestani
Qorban Kohestani ( prs, قربان کوهستانی) is an ethnic Hazara politician from Afghanistan, who was the representative of the people of Ghor province in the 15th and 16th term of the Afghanistan Parliament. Early life Qorban Kohestani was born on 1961 in Lal wa Sarjangal District of Ghor province. He has a bachelor's degree in economics in higher education. See also * List of Hazara people Hazara people make up the second or third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan with 8–12 million population, making 20%–25% of the total population of Afghanistan (Some suggest the real population might reach 30%) where they mainly inhabit the ... References Living people 1961 births Hazara politicians People from Ghor Province {{Afghanistan-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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