Nangarhār (

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: ;

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: ), also called Nangrahar or Ningrahar, is one of the 34

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, located in the eastern part of the country and bordering Logar,

Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

, Laghman and Kunar provinces as well as having an international border with

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. It is divided into 22 districts and has a population of about 1,735,531, the third highest of the country's 34 provinces. The city of

Jalalabad Jalalabad (; Help:IPA/Persian, ͡ʒä.lɑː.lɑː.bɑːd̪ is the list of cities in Afghanistan, fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 200,331, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part ...

is the capital of Nangarhar province. Nangarhar province is famous for its fish and

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dishes.

Etymology

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theorized that the word Nangarhar is derived from the

term ''nang-nahar'' ("nine streams"), which appears in some

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chronicles. The term supposedly refers to nine streams originating from

Safed Koh The Spīn GharSafīd Mountain Range
in

...

. However, according to S. H. Hodivala, the name of the province derives from the Sanskrit term

Nagarahara Nagara (), also known as Dionysopolis (), was an ancient city in the northwest part of ("India within the Ganges"), distinguished in Ptolemy by the title 'also Dionysopolis'. It also appears in sources as Nagarahara, and was situated between ...

, which appears in a 9th-century inscription discovered at Ghosrawa in present-day

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, India. ''Nà-jiā-luó-ā'', the Chinese transcription of Nagarahara, appears in the annals of the

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of China.

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derived the name from the Sanskrit ''nava-vihara'', meaning "nine viharas".

History

Early history

The province was originally part of the

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, in the

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satrapy (province). The people in the area were a mixture

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, and followers of native Iranic faiths. The Nangarhar province territory and the

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peoples there fell to the

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, which was led by

Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta Maurya (Sanskrit: elp:IPA/Sanskrit, t̪͡ɕɐn̪d̪ɾɐgupt̪ɐ mɐʊɾjɐ (reigned 320 BCE – c. 298 BCE) was the founder and the first emperor of the Maurya Empire, based in Magadha (present-day Bihar) in the Indian ...

. Seleucus is said to have reached a

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with Chandragupta by giving control of the territory south of the Hindu Kush to the Mauryas upon intermarriage and 500 elephants.

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, a Chinese monk who visited Nangarhar in 520 AD, claimed that the people in the area were Buddhists. Yun came across a vihara (monastery) in Nangarhar (Na-lka-lo-hu) containing the skull of Buddha, and another of Kekalam (probably

Mihtarlam Mihtarlam (, ), also spelled Mehtar Lam, is the sixteenth-largest city of Afghanistan. It is the capital of Laghman Province and center of Mihtarlam District. It is the only large urban settlement in the province. The town is situated in the va ...

Laghman province Laghman (Persian language, Persian/Pashto: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It has a population of about 502,148, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. Laghman hosts a large numbe ...

) where 13 pieces of the cloak of Buddha and his 18 feet long mast were preserved. In the city of Naki, a tooth and hair of Buddha were preserved and in the Kupala cave

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reflected close to which he saw a stone tablet which was at that time considered to be related to Buddha (probably the stone tablet of

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in Darūntah). The region fell to the

Ghaznavids The Ghaznavid dynasty ( ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic peoples, Turkic ''mamluk'' origin. It ruled the Ghaznavid Empire or the Empire of Ghazni from 977 to 1186, which at its greatest extent, extended from the Oxus ...

after defeating

Jayapala Jayapala was a ruler of the Hindu Shahi dynasty from 964 to 1001 CE. He ruled over the area which stretched from Laghman in the west, to Kashmir in the east and from Sirhind to Multan. He was the son of Hutpal and the father of Anandapala. ...

in the late 10th century. It later fell to the

Ghorids The Ghurid dynasty (also spelled Ghorids; ; self-designation: , ''Šansabānī'') was a Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian Tajik origin, which ruled from the 8th-century in the region of Ghor, and became an Empire from 1175 to 1215. The G ...

followed by the Khaljis, Lodhis and the Moghuals, until finally becoming part of

Ahmad Shah Durrani Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (; ; – 4 June 1772), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (), was the first ruler and founder of the Durrani Empire. He is often regarded as the founder of modern Afghanistan. Throughout his reign, Ahmad Shah fought ov ...

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in 1747. During the

First Anglo-Afghan War The First Anglo-Afghan War () was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842. The British initially successfully invaded the country taking sides in a succession dispute between emir Dost Mohammad Khan ( Bara ...

, the invading

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-led Indian forces were defeated on their way to

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in 1842. British-led Indian forces returned in 1878 but retreated a couple of years later. Some fighting took place during the 1919

Third Anglo-Afghan War The Third Anglo-Afghan War was a short war which began on 3 May and ended on 8 August 1919. The new Amir of the Emirate of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan declared a Jihad against the British in the hope to proclaim full independence, as well as ...

between the

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that were led by

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Amanullah Khan Ghazi (warrior), Ghazi Amanullah Khan (Pashto/Dari: ; 1 June 1892 – 26 April 1960) was the head of state, sovereign of Afghanistan from 1919, first as Emirate of Afghanistan, Emir and after 1926 as Kingdom of Afghanistan, King, until his abdic ...

and British-Indians near the

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border areas. The province remained relatively calm until the 1980s

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. Nangarhar was used by pro-Pakistani

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(rebel forces) fighting against the Soviet-backed

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. The Pakistani-trained mujahideen received funding from the United States and Saudi Arabia. Many Arab fighters from the

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had been fighting against the government forces of

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, who ultimately defeated them near Jalalabad. In April 1992, Najibullah resigned as

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and the various mujahideen took control over the country. When the 1992

Peshawar Accord On 24 April 1992, the Peshawar Accord was announced by several but not all Afghan mujahideen parties: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e Islami, had since March 1992 opposed these attempts at a coalition government. The accord proclaimed an ...

failed, the

turned guns on each other and started a nationwide

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. This was followed by the

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take-over in 1996 and the establishment of

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training camps in Nangarhar province.

Recent history

Branches of the Kunar River meet in Kunar Province

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held a strong position in Nangarhar during the late 1990s. He led a fight against US-led forces in the 2001 Tora Bora campaign. He ultimately escaped to

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, where he was killed in a night raid by members of

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in 2011. After the removal of the

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and the formation of the

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in late 2001, U.S.-led

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(ANSF) gradually established authority across the province. Despite this, Taliban insurgents continue to stage attacks against Afghan government forces. The

Haqqani Network The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanis ...

and militants loyal to the

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(ISIL-KP) are often blamed for the attacks, which sometimes include major suicide bombings. Several incursions by Pakistani military forces have also been reported in the districts next to the

border. The focus of the conflict is on the

and Kunar rivers, which run through Nangarhar. On 13 April 2017, U.S. President

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ordered a targeted strike on ISIL-KP by use of the second largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal at the time. The bomb was a 21,000 lb. weapon called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb; nicknamed the "Mother Of All Bombs" (MOAB). The intended target was

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militants hiding inside tunnels, most of whom came "from

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and other countries." It was the first time the MOAB had been used in combat. In August 2021, the province was captured by the

Healthcare

The percentage of households with clean drinking water fell from 43% in 2005 to 8% in 2011.Archive, Civil Military Fusion Centre, https://www.cimicweb.org/AfghanistanProvincialMap/Pages/Nangarhar.aspx The percentage of births attended to by a skilled birth attendant increased from 22% in 2005 to 60% in 2011.

Education

Nangarhar University Nangarhar University (; ) is a government-funded higher learning institution in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. It is the second largest university in Afghanistan. It has 13 colleges and 15,385 students. Nangarhar University was established in 1963 as ...

is located in the provincial capital, Jalalabad. It is government-funded and provides higher education to nearly 6,000 students from the region. A number of

schools A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of ...

operate in the province, providing basic education to both boys and girls. The overall literacy rate (6+ years of age) increased from 29% in 2005 to 31% in 2011. The overall net enrollment rate (6–13 years of age) increased from 39% in 2005 to 51% in 2011.

Economy

Inside the Afghan customs and border patrol station at Torkham

The Jalalabad plain is one of the principal agricultural areas of Afghanistan. The strong agricultural base, coupled with the crucial trade route connecting Kabul with Peshawar, makes Nangarhar one of the more economically diverse and functional provinces of Afghanistan.

Torkham Torkham (; ) is a Pakistani town in Khyber District (until 2018 the Khyber Agency of the now defunct FATA), that is the location of the Torkham Border Crossing with Afghanistan just to the west of the historic Khyber Pass. Torkham lies at the end ...

is one of the major

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s between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is the busiest

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between the two countries, serving as a major economical hub for the province. Nangarhar is famous in Afghanistan for producing

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s and

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. Many other fruits and vegetables are also grown. It was once a major center of

opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum'', commonly known as the opium poppy or breadseed poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae. It is the species of plant from which both opium and poppy seeds are derived and is also a valuable orname ...

production in the country.

Transportation

The

Jalalabad Airport Jalalabad Airport (; ), also known as Nangarhar Airport, and referred to as Jalalabad Airfield (JAF) by the U.S. military during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Afghanistan, is located next to the Kabul–Jalalabad Road, about south ...

is located next to the city of Jalalabad. It serves the populations of Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan, and other nearby provinces. The Kabul–Jalalabad Road runs throughout the province, linking Kabul with Jalalabad and extending east through

Khyber Pass The Khyber Pass (Urdu: درۂ خیبر; ) is a mountain pass in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on the border with the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. It connects the town of Landi Kotal to the Valley of Peshawar at Jamrud by tr ...

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

. It is one of the busiest major roads in Afghanistan.

Geography

Demographics

US Army ethnolinguistic map of Afghanistan -- circa 2001-09

As of 2021, the population of the province is around 1,735,531. Over 90% of the population is

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the ...

and the remaining is made up of Pashais,

Tajiks Tajiks (; ; also spelled ''Tadzhiks'' or ''Tadjiks'') is the name of various Persian-speaking Eastern Iranian groups of people native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Even though the term ''Tajik'' ...

, Arabs, and other ethnic groups. The 18th edition Ethnologue states on p. 48 that Nangarhar is the center of the (smaller) Northern Pashto language in Afghanistan. Only one in five Afghan Pashtuns use the Northern variety.

Districts

Nangarhar is divided into 22 districts. They are as follows:

Sports

The province is represented in domestic

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competitions by the Nangarhar province cricket team. Jalalabad is considered the capital of Afghan cricket with many of the national players coming from the surrounding areas.

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members

Hamid Hasan Hamid Hassan (; born 1 June 1987) is a former Afghan cricketer. He is a right-arm Fast bowling, fast bowler and a right-handed batsman who mainly plays as a bowler. He made his international debut in April 2009. Early life and career Hassan w ...

and

Rashid Khan Rashid Khan Arman (; born 20 September 1998) is an Afghan international cricketer and captain of the Afghanistan national team in the T20I format. In franchise leagues, he plays for Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Adelaide ...

were born in the province. De Spinghar Bazan is a regional team in the Roshan

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based in

. Jalalabad Regional Football Tournament were four local team plays like Malang Jan, Shaheed Qasim, Afghan Refugees and Laghman for to find raw talent in

. Wrestling in Jalalabad was modernized by Davud Sulaymankhil, a Pashtun orator and athlete. Now, several wrestling teams (most notably the Suleim Wrestling Team founded by Davud Sulaymanhil) represent the province in national events.

Stadiums

Ghazi Amanullah International Cricket Stadium The Ghazi Amanullah Khan Cricket Stadium () is located in the eastern Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, a short distance to the east of Jalalabad in the new Ghazi Amanullah Town. It became the first international cricket stadium in the country a ...

is the first international standard cricket stadium in Afghanistan. It is located in the

Ghazi Amanullah Town Ghazi Amanullah Khan Town () is a planned community located next to the Kabul–Jalalabad Road roughly southeast of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. The developers of the neighborhood set aside land for the construction of Gha ...

about 15 kilometres south-east of Jalalabad. * Sirajul Emarah Football Stadium in Jalalabad

Notable people

Qais Ahmad Qais Ahmad Kamawal (; born 15 August 2000) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his Test debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in September 2019. Domestic career Qais Ahmad made his senior cricket debut for Kabul Eagles in the 2017 Shpageeza Crick ...

- Afghan cricketer *

Muqadasa Ahmadzai Muqadasa Ahmadzai (; born 1992/1993) is an Afghan social activist, politician and poet who ran in the 2018 Afghan parliamentary election. She is the recipient of a N-Peace Award and was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021. Biography ...

- social and political activist * Aftab Alam - Afghan cricketer *

Hamid Hassan Hamid Hassan (; born 1 June 1987) is a former Afghan cricketer. He is a right-arm fast bowler and a right-handed batsman who mainly plays as a bowler. He made his international debut in April 2009. Early life and career Hassan was born in 198 ...

- Afghan cricketer *

- Afghan cricketer and winner of ICC Mens T20 Cricketer of Decade *

Mohammad Musa Shafiq Muḥammad Mūsá Shafīq (; 1932–1979) was Prime Minister of Afghanistan for eight months. He was an Afghan politician and poet. He became Foreign Minister in 1971 and Prime Minister in December 1972. He lost both positions when Mohammed ...

- former Prime Minister of Afghanistan *

Mohammad Shahzad Mohammad Shahzad Mohammadi (; born 10 January 1988) is an Afghan cricketer who has represented his country in all three international formats. He is a right-handed opening batsman and a wicketkeeper. He made his international debut for Afgha ...

- Afghan cricketer *

Samiullah Shinwari Samiullah Shinwari (; born 31 December 1987) is an Afghan cricketer who represents Afghanistan at the international level. He is a right-handed batsman and leg break bowler. He made his international debut, against Scotland, in April 2009. Car ...

- Afghan cricketer

References

External links

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Etymology

History

Early history

Recent history

Healthcare

Education

Economy

Transportation

Geography

Demographics

Districts

Sports

Stadiums

Notable people

See also

References

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