The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 1. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's sons, 1878 |
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A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature Thomas Spencer Baynes. | AFGHANISTAN THIS is the name applied , originally in Persian. Alexandria with Eunomius in order to advocate Arianism , but he was banished by Constantius ...
A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature Thomas Spencer Baynes. | AFGHANISTAN THIS is the name applied , originally in Persian. Alexandria with Eunomius in order to advocate Arianism , but he was banished by Constantius ...
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... Afghans themselves are not in the habit of using the term . In treating of this country we include a part of the Hazara mountain region , but not that part of the Oxus basin which is now under Afghan rule , for which see AFGHAN ...
... Afghans themselves are not in the habit of using the term . In treating of this country we include a part of the Hazara mountain region , but not that part of the Oxus basin which is now under Afghan rule , for which see AFGHAN ...
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... Afghans themselves make a broad distinction between Kabul , meaning thereby the whole basin of the Kabul river , and ... Afghan portion of Seistan ; ( 5. ) The basin of the Herat river ; and ( 6. ) The eastern part of the table - land ...
... Afghans themselves make a broad distinction between Kabul , meaning thereby the whole basin of the Kabul river , and ... Afghan portion of Seistan ; ( 5. ) The basin of the Herat river ; and ( 6. ) The eastern part of the table - land ...
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... Afghanistan , but some chief points will be noticed with the rivers . In general the remainder of the country , regarded by the Afghans as included in Khorasan , exhibits neither the savage sublimity of the defiles of the Kabul region ...
... Afghanistan , but some chief points will be noticed with the rivers . In general the remainder of the country , regarded by the Afghans as included in Khorasan , exhibits neither the savage sublimity of the defiles of the Kabul region ...
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... Afghanistan in recent times are stated to be Kabul , Jalalabad , Ghazni , Kandahar , Herat , and AFGHAN TUR- KESTAN ( q.v. ) , to which are sometimes added the command of the Ghilzais and of the Hazaras . This list scems to omit the ...
... Afghanistan in recent times are stated to be Kabul , Jalalabad , Ghazni , Kandahar , Herat , and AFGHAN TUR- KESTAN ( q.v. ) , to which are sometimes added the command of the Ghilzais and of the Hazaras . This list scems to omit the ...
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