Kabulistan
Kabulistan(Persian:کابلستان) is a historical regional name referring to the territory that is centered on present-dayKabul ProvinceofAfghanistan.[1][2]
By the 10th century,Ibn Khordadbehand theHudud al-'Alamreport the southern part of the Hindu Kush, i.e. the regions ofSistan,Rukhkhudh,ZabulistanandKabulto make up theKhorasan marches.[3]
During the 16h century, founder of theMughal Empire,Baburstates in hisBaburnama,his memoirs: The people ofHindustāncall every country beyond their ownKhorasān,in the same manner as the Arabs term all except Arabia,Ajem.On the road between Hindustān and Khorasān, there are two great marts: the oneKābul,the otherKandahār.Caravans, from Ferghāna, Tūrkestān, Samarkand, Balkh, Bokhāra, Hissār, andBadakhshān,all resort to Kābul; while those from Khorasān repair toKandahār.This country lies between Hindustān and Khorasān.[4]
In many Greek and Latin sources, particularly editions of Ptolemy'sGeography,the name of the region is given as Cabolitae (Καβολῖται). European writers in the 18th to the 20th centuries sometimes referred toDurrani Empireas theKingdom of Caboul.[5]
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- ^Section 14 – The Kingdom of Gaofu (Kabul)
- ^Minorsky, V. (1927).Hudud al-'Alam, The Regions of the World: A Persian Geography, 372 A.H. - 982 A.D.London: Oxford UP.ISBN9780906094037.
- ^Temple, R. C."Memoirs of Zehir-ed-din Muhammed Babur, Emperor of Hindustan. Translated by John Leyden and William Erskine. Annotated and revised by Sir Lucas King. Two volumes, 7¼ × 5, pp. cxi + 471, 1 portrait, 1 map. Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, 1921".Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.54(4): 597–605.doi:10.1017/s0035869x00053910.ISSN1356-1863.
- ^"History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878", p.2,George Bruce Malleson,Elibron Classics Series, 2005 Adament Media Corporation,LINK
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