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Turkman Valley
Torkman Valley or (Dare''-ye'' Torkman, prs, دره ترکمن; haz, دره تورکمو) is a valley in Afghanistan located in Surkhi Parsa District, Parwan Province in Hazarajat region, which is inhabited by the Hazara people. Etymology The name of this valley is derived from the ethnonym Turkoman, or the Turkmani, one of the main tribes of Hazara people. Demographics The Turkman valley is populated by Hazaras. They speak the Hazaragi dialect of Persian. History Notable people * Commander Shafi Hazara * Abbas Noyan * Wakil Hussain Allahdad * Mohaqiq Kabuli * Mohammad Ebrahim Khedri See also * First Campaign against Turkomen Hazaras * List of Hazara tribes * Valleys of Afghanistan As a mountainous country, Afghanistan contains countless notable valleys. The majority of the valleys are located in parts of northeastern, central, southern and southeastern Afghanistan. The southeastern areas are wetter and are covered by f ... References {{reflist Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valleys Of Afghanistan
As a mountainous country, Afghanistan contains countless notable valleys. The majority of the valleys are located in parts of northeastern, central, southern and southeastern Afghanistan. The southeastern areas are wetter and are covered by forest with trees such as cypress, oak, poplar, pine etc. Northern Hindu Kush mountain valleys Wakhan valleys include Sheghnan, Ashava, Darwaz, Drayem, Arsj, Hnjab, Farkhar, Ishkamish District valley, Khost i Fereng, Samandan, Andrab, Khenjan, Tala wa Barfak. Southern Hindu Kush valleys Panj Valley, Korm, Panjdarh Nijrab, Bandavol, Eshpi, Shishil, Kepchaq, Chardeh, Sayghan, Kahmard, Salang, Darzab, Panjshir, Ghorband District, Surobi, etc. Koh-i-Baba mountain valleys Koh-i-Baba is located in central Afghanistan and contains the valleys of Koladi, Bamiyan, Kakrak, Turkman and others. Safēd Kōh mountain valleys Valleys include Khyber Pass, Nazyan District, Shinwar District, Achen, Zarmast, Jajy, Khogyani, Kjah, Nakrokh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazara Tribes
The Hazara people are an ethnic group who inhabit and originate from Hazarajat (Hazaristan) region, located in central parts of Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan. However, there are significant populations of Hazaras in Pakistan and Iran, notably in Quetta, Pakistan and in Mashhad, Iran. Furthermore, many Afghan refugees are fleeing the conflict in Afghanistan who have in recent years settled in Iran and further bolstered the Hazara community in Pakistan. Some overarching Hazara tribes are Sheikh Ali, Jaghori, Muhammad Khwaja, Jaghatu, Qara Baghi, Ghaznichi, Behsudi, Dai Mirdad, Turkmani, Uruzgani, Dai Kundi, Dai Zangi, Dai Chopan, Dai Zinyat, Qarlugh and others. Program for Culture and Conflict Studies, US Naval Postgraduate School.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Campaign Against Turkomen Hazaras
The First Campaign against Turkoman Hazaras was a Mughal Empire campaign against Hazaras in the 16th century. Following Babur's departure from Kabul for Qalat, the Hazaras took advantage of his absence to raid his territories. After Babur had returned to Kabul from his victory at the Battle of Qalat, he remained encamped in the Chaharbagh during the harsh winter of 1505 CE where he planned to make an excursion against them. He then went into Kabul city into the palace of Ulugh Beg Mirza, called Bostān-Serāi, prepared for the campaign and set out from there on December 28, 1505 CE. Campaign Babur had sent an advance party, which made a sudden attack on a small party of Hazaras at Jangalak, in the mouth of the valley of Hindu Kush in Panjshir, and dispersed them. A few Hazaras had lain in ambush in a cave near the valley of Hindu Kush. Sheikh Dervish Kokaltash had gone up close to the mouth of this den, without suspecting anything, when a Hazara from within shot him in the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Ebrahim Khedri
Muhammad Ebrahim Khedri ( prs, محمد ابراهیم خدری) known as Pahlawan Ebrahim (); (11 April 1938 – 22 May 2022) was an ethnic Hazara wrestler from Afghanistan, who competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics in the featherweight events. Early life Ebrahim Khedri was born on 11 April 1938 into a peasant family of Hazara ethnic group, in the Turkman Valley of Surkhi Parsa District, Parwan province. He moved with his family to Kabul as a child. Death Ebrahim Khedri died on 22 May 2022 aged 84 in a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. See also * List of Hazara people * Wakil Hussain Allahdad Wakil Hussain Allahdad (1986-2018) was an ethnic Hazara people, Hazara wrestler, entrepreneur and community first responder in Afghanistan. History Wakil Hussain Allahdad was born in 1986 in Afghanistan in a family who were members of the Hazar ... References External links * * 1938 births 2022 deaths Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohaqiq Kabuli
Grand Ayatullah Qorban Ali Mohaqiq Kabuli (Persian language, Persian: آیتالله العظمى قربان على محقق كابلى) was a Twelver Shia Marja' in Afghanistan. He was an ethnic Hazara people, Hazara. Biography Early life He was born in the village of Turkman Valley, Turkman in Parwan Province, Parwan in north west of Kabul Province, Kabul. He started basic religious schooling, at the age of seven, by learning Koran and religion related books in Persian language. He got involved deep in Islamic beliefs, literature, logic, jurisprudence and sciences after he joined local religious schools. Later, he went to Kabul where educational resources were limited and the political situation was not ideal, either. Then, for further studies, he left Afghanistan for Iran. In the Solar year 1332, he went to Najaf Iraq to study. Life in Najaf His higher education started in 1332 (solar) in Najaf, his teachers were Ayatullah Abdul Ali Sabzevari, Sheikh Kazim Tabrezi, Sayed Ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakil Hussain Allahdad
Wakil Hussain Allahdad (1986-2018) was an ethnic Hazara people, Hazara wrestler, entrepreneur and community first responder in Afghanistan. History Wakil Hussain Allahdad was born in 1986 in Afghanistan in a family who were members of the Hazaras, Hazara ethnic group. He started wrestling in 1998 at age 12. He was taught by Sher Jan Ahmadi, deputy head of the country's wrestling federation. His weight class was 214 pounds and he won many medals in domestic tournaments, as well as a silver medal at an international tournament in Pakistan. He retired from wrestling in 2014 after tearing a muscle in his leg and began coaching at a local wrestling club, teaching 150 students daily. During the 11 October 2016 attack on the Karte Sakhi Shrine, he was one of the rescuers and was photographed carrying a wounded girl in an Agence France-Presse image that was widely circulated. He was also a rescuer in the June 2017 Kabul mosque attack. He was also an entrepreneur who ran multiple small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Noyan
Abbas Noyan ( prs, عباس نویان) is an ethnic Hazara politician. He is Afghanistan's ambassador to Sweden, from the Islamic Republic that fell in August 2021 to the Taliban. Previously he served as a Member of Parliament to Wolesi Jirga, the lower house, representing the people of Kabul province from 2005 to 2010. In 2005, he ranked seventh among candidates from Kabul province, quickly rising to one of the most prominent and active representatives at the Wolesi Jirga. During his tenure, he advocated for women's rights, education for all, a responsive and accountable government, and a strong rule of law. Noyan has worked across ethnic and sectarian divides in representing his constituents, and sought to bridge those divides by establishing a multi-ethnic political party. Early life and education Abbas Noyan hails from Turkman Valley of Parwan province and grew up in Kabul. He was born into a politically active family; his father Haji Saleh Mohammad Khan was one of the el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commander Shafi Hazara
Commander Shafi Hazara ( prs, قومندان شفیع هزاره) was an ethnic Hazara military commander in Afghanistan. He was a senior commander during the resistance of west Kabul and Hazarajat between 1991 and 1996. In the 1990s he led Hezbe Wahdat Brigade 2 military wing against rival militias and, against the Taliban takeover. Early life Shafi was born in March 1964 in Chindawol, Kabul. Originally from the Turkman valley, Parwan province. He went to Parsa Elementary School and Ansari High School. After graduating, Shafi went to his home village, the Turkman valley, and joined Sazman Al-Nasr in Jihad against the Red Army of Russia. Shafi Dewana (Shafi the Mad) Shafi due to his exceptional military tactics that angered a collection of adversaries. He would continuously put himself in danger by standing on top of containers and running towards the opposition, resulting in his enemies calling him "Dewana". Battles On May 1, 1992, he returned to Kabul and formed a six-man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
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 der ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazaragi
Hazaragi ( fa, , Həzārəgī; haz, , links=no, Āzərəgī) is an eastern dialect of Persian that is spoken by the Hazara people, primarily in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, as well as other Hazara-populated areas of Afghanistan. It is also spoken by the Hazaras of Pakistan and Iran and also by the Hazara diaspora living elsewhere in the world. Classification Hazaragi is a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is an eastern variety of Persian closely related to the Dari language of Afghanistan. The primary differences between Dari and Hazaragi are the accents Schurmann, Franz (1962) ''The Mongols of Afghanistan: An Ethnography of the Moghôls and Related Peoples of Afghanistan'' Mouton, The Hague, Netherlands, page 17OCLC 401634/ref> and Hazaragi's greater array of many Turkic and a few Mongolic loanwords.Charles M. Kieffer, "HAZĀRA iv. Hazāragi dialect," ''Encyclopedia Iranica'' Online Edition, December 15, 2003, available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkoman (ethnonym)
Turkoman (Middle Turkic languages, Middle Turkic: تُركْمانْ, ota, تركمن, Türkmen and ''Türkmân''; az, Türkman and ', tr, Türkmen, tk, Türkmen, Persian language, Persian: ترکمن sing. ''Turkamān'', pl. ''Tarākimah''), also called Turcoman and Turkman, is a term that was widely used during the Middle Ages for the people of Oghuz Turks, Oghuz Turkic origin. Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in the 8th century A.D, formed a Oghuz Yabgu State, tribal confederation in an area between the Aral Sea, Aral and Caspian Sea, Caspian seas in Central Asia, and spoke the Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. ''Turkmen'', originally an exonym, dates from the High Middle Ages, along with the ancient and familiar name "Turkic peoples, Turk" (), and tribal names such as "Bayat (tribe), Bayat", "Bayandur", "Afshar (tribe), Afshar", "Kayi", and others. By the 10th century, Islamic sources were calling Oghuz Turks as Muslim Turkmens, as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces Of Afghanistan
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (, '' wilåyat''). The provinces of Afghanistan are the primary administrative divisions. Each province encompasses a number of districts or usually over 1,000 villages. Provincial governors played a critical role in the reconstruction of the Afghan state following the creation of the new government under Hamid Karzai. According to international security scholar Dipali Mukhopadhyay, many of the provincial governors of the western-backed government were former warlords who were incorporated into the political system. Provinces of Afghanistan Regions of Afghanistan UN Regions Former provinces of Afghanistan During Afghanistan's history it had a number of provinces in it. It started out as just Kabul, Herat, Qandahar, and Balkh but the number of provinces increased and by 1880 the provinces consisted of Balkh, Herat, Qandahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad, and Kabul. * Southern Province – dissolved in 1964 to create Paktia Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
