Definitions

1. Hindu Kush is a set of impressions about war and strife in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir. (Web site)
2. HINDU KUSH, a range of mountains in Central Asia. (Web site)
3. Hindu Kush is the Caucasus of Alexander's historians. (Web site)
4. The Hindu Kush is a mountain range in eastern and central Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan.
5. Hindu Kush is designed to be accessible by non-professional orchestras, with fairly traditional orchestration. (Web site)

Term Hindu Kush ???

1. Ibn Batuta on the term Hindu Kush “ ‘Another reason for our halt was fear of the snow. (Web site)

Ismaili Hazaras

1. Ismaili Hazaras, a smaller religiously differentiated group of Hazaras live in the Hindu Kush mountains. (Web site)

Karakoram Range

1. The northern highlands include parts of the Hindu Kush, the Karakoram Range, and the Himalayas. (Web site)

Hindu Genocide

1. All the Encyclopedias and National Geographic agree that Hindu Kush region is a place of Hindu genocide (similar to Dakau and Auschwitz). (Web site)
2. This policy of negationism is the cause behind the ignorance of Hindus about the Hindu Kush and the Hindu genocide. (Web site)

Dorah

1. Its chief affluent is the Minjan, which Sir George Robertson found to be a considerable stream where it approaches the Hindu Kush close under the Dorah. (Web site)

Khawak

1. The water-divide of the Hindu Kush from the Dorah to the Khawak pass, i.e. (Web site)

Name Hindu Kush

1. Such bitter journeys gave the range its name Hindu Kush - "Killer of Hindus"'(10). (Web site)
2. Unlike the Jewish holocaust, the exact toll of the Hindu genocide suggested by the name Hindu Kush is not available. (Web site)
3. That is how these mountains were given the name Hindu Kush by mountain dwelling Caucasian tribes. (Web site)

Term Hindu Kush

1. Secondly the term Hindu Kush was propogated by Emperor Babar the founder of the Mughal Empire on the killing of Hindu boys in the mountains. (Web site)

Chitral District

1. The Chitral district is situated on the western bank of the Kunar river near the Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan. (Web site)

Hindu Kush System

1. Only about 600 kilometers of the Hindu Kush system is called the Hindu Kush mountains. (Web site)

Hindu Kush Range

1. The mountain has four separate peaks, of which the Main Summit is the second highest in the Hindu Kush Range, and the 68th tallest on Earth. (Web site)

Parallel

1. The Kuh-e Baba range runs parallel to and south of the central Hindu Kush.

Analogy

1. From here we leave on analogy to two other traditions: legends of relic Aryan pagans of Hindu Kush and the Scandinavian mythology. (Web site)

Fed

1. The Kunar river system is fed from melting glaciers and snow of the Hindu Kush mountains.

Years

1. The Hindu Kush region is capable of producing large earthquakes along faultlines where India slammed against the Asian continent millions of years ago.

Crossing

1. He managed to gather sufficient troops in 1504; crossing the snowy Hindu Kush, Babur besieged and captured the strong city of Kabul. (Web site)

World

1. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

Travelers

1. Although traveling by car is possible, the Hindu Kush is best left for travelers prepared to rough it.

Southwest

1. To the southwest the Pamir Mountains merge into the Hindu Kush and the Himalaya Mountains. (Web site)

High

1. Set atop a plateau nearly 1,825 m high in the Hindu Kush Mountains, 3,000-year-old Kabul once rated at least a three-night stay. (Web site)

Meters

1. These reserves, among the world's largest, are located at Hajji Gak, almost 4,000 meters up in the Hindu Kush, northwest of Kabul in Bamian Province. (Web site)

Eastern

1. The main ridge begins in China and runs southwestward as the eastern Hindu Kush, with summits over 6,400 meters (21,000 feet) high.

Irrigation

1. The Murghab and Tejen rivers flow out of the Hindu Kush Mountains to the south and empty into the desert, providing water for irrigation.

King

1. After Hermaeus’s death no king of his race ever ruled again south of the Hindu Kush.

Conquest

1. Thus, the conquest of Afghanistan in the year 1000 was followed by the annihilation of the Hindu population; the region is still called the Hindu Kush, i.e. (Web site)

Alexander

1. Four years after the crossing of the Hindu Kush, Alexander the Great died and his Empire collapsed. (Web site)
2. Following the trail of Alexander the Great deep into the Hindu Kush, he trains a tribal army and is crowned king by the local tribesmen.
3. Under the Seleucids, as under Alexander, Greek colonists and soldiers entered the region of the Hindu Kush, and many are believed to have remained. (Web site)

Indus Valley

1. The Himalayas are also located near the Indus Valley, as is the Hindu Kush mountain range. (Web site)
2. The Northwest expansion of the inhabitants of Indus Valley was prevented by of Hindu Kush Mountains. (Web site)

Valley

1. High up in the Hindu Kush is a valley formed at the conflagration of five rivers.

Winter

1. By the winter of 329-328 Alexander had reached the Kabul valley at the foot of the Paropamisadae (Hindu Kush). (Web site)
2. If bin Laden lives high in the Hindu Kush, he's snowbound for winter and likely free of fear from attack.

Snow

1. While there are a number of passes through the mountains, primarily the Hindu Kush, most are closed by snow in the winter, and only a few have paved roads.
2. Hardest hit appears to be the western province of Ghor, deep in the Hindu Kush mountains, where deep snow has cut off scores of villages. (Web site)
3. Ibn Batuta on the term Hindu Kush The traveller Ibn Batuta wrote in the 14th century that: "Another reason for our halt was fear of the snow.

Sea Level

1. Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian Plate, which rises above sea level as the Indian subcontinent south of the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush. (Web site)
2. It is an economic and cultural centre, situated 5,900 ft above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. (Web site)
3. Baylough lies 7,500 feet above sea level in a valley below the Hindu Kush Mountains in the Deh Chopan district of Afghanistan's Zabul province.

Height

1. The mountains of the Hindu Kush diminish in height as they stretch westward. (Web site)

Centre

1. Mountains The Hindu Kush occupy the lower left centre of this satellite image.

Short Walk

1. What's more, he recorded his adventure in a classic narrative, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. (Web site)

Earthquake

1. The walls start shaking, and Kabul feels the effect of an earthquake in the Hindu Kush.

Northern India

1. In about 304 BC the territory south of the Hindu Kush was ceded to the Maurya dynasty of northern India.

Punjab

1. A century later, as their populations grew, they built armies and began a southward migration over the Hindu Kush and down into the Punjab.

Invaders

1. A land that had been protected by Hindu Kush Mountains on its northwest frontier now was a thoroughfare for invaders and marauders. (Web site)
2. It was strong enough to influence successive waves of invaders from beyond the Hindu Kush after the Maurya Empire’s fall. (Web site)

Way

1. Before the summer of 327 he had once more crossed the Hindu Kush on his way to India (see F. von Schwarz, Alex. (Web site)

Arachosia

1. Arachosia was directly to the south of Bactria, but separated from it by the Hindu Kush.

Kandahar

1. In 1504, he was able to cross the snowy Hindu Kush mountains and capture Kabul[ 24] from the Arghunids, who were forced to retreat to Kandahar.

Rivers

1. Afghanistan has been affected by the Natural Hazards like earthquakes in Hindu Kush Mountains and flooding in the rivers. (Web site)

Southward

1. It flows southward through the Hindu Kush and adjoins the Kabul River near Sarobi.

Demetrius

1. Bopearachchi believes that Demetrius received the title of "King of India" following his victories south of the Hindu Kush. (Web site)

Afghan Turkestan

1. A tributary of the Amu Darya river, it flows through Badakhshan Province in the Hindu Kush range of Afghan Turkestan.

Steppes

1. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. (Web site)

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