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Bangash

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The Bangash (بنګش), (بنگش) are one of the Karlani Pashtun tribe of the border region of eastern Afghanistan and North Western Pakistan. [1]

59 relations: Afghanistan, Afridi, Ahmad Shah Durrani, Badakhshan Province, Baizai, Baizais, Balkh Province, Bannu, Clan, Doaba, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Emir, Encyclopædia Iranica, Farrukhabad, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Gardez, Ghaznavids, Ghazni, Ghilji, Hangu District, Pakistan, Hangu, Pakistan, Hindustan, Islam, Islamic schools and branches, Kabul, Kandahar Province, Karlani, Kasi (Pashtun tribe), Khalid ibn al-Walid, Khan of Hangu, Khattak, Khel (clan), Khogyani (Pashtun tribe), Khost, Kohat, Kurram Agency, Kurram River, Miranzai Valley, Muhammad Khan Bangash, Muslim, North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010), Orakzai, Orakzai Agency, Pakistan, Paktia Province, Paktika Province, Pashtuns, Patrilineality, Peiwar Pass, Political faction, Shia Islam, ..., Spīn Ghar, Sunni Islam, Thall, Turi (Pashtun tribe), Uttar Pradesh, Wazir (Pashtun tribe), Wazir dialect, Zai (tribe), Zurmat District. Expand index (9 more) »

Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Afridi

The Afrīdī (اپريدی Aprīdai, plur. اپريدي Aprīdī; آفریدی) is a Pashtun tribe present in Pakistan, with substantial numbers in Afghanistan.

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Ahmad Shah Durrani

Ahmad Shāh Durrānī (c. 1722 – 16 October 1772) (Pashto: احمد شاه دراني), also known as Ahmad Khān Abdālī (احمد خان ابدالي), was the founder of the Durrani Empire and is regarded as the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan.

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Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan Province (بدخشان ولایت Badaxšān wilāyat and Velâyat-e Badakhšân) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the farthest northeastern part of the country between Tajikistan and northern Pakistan.

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Baizai

Baizai (بےزائی) is an area of Upper Mohmand Tehsil, Mohmand Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

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Baizais

The Baizai are a sub-tribe of the Bangash tribe.

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Balkh Province

Balkh (Pashto and بلخ, Balx) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country.

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Bannu

Banū or Bannu (باني ګل / بنو, بنوں) is the principal city of the Bannu District in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Clan

A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.

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Doaba, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Doaba is a town and union council of Hangu District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Emir

An emir (أمير), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is an aristocratic or noble and military title of high office used in a variety of places in the Arab countries, West African, and Afghanistan.

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Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopædia Iranica is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times.

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Farrukhabad

Farrukhabad is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.

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Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA; قبایلي سیمې، منځنۍ پښتونخوا; وفاقی منتظم شدہ قبائیلی علاقہ جات) was a semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with neighboring province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in 2018.

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Gardez

Gardēz (ګردېز, گردیز) is the capital of the Paktia Province of Afghanistan.

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Ghaznavids

The Ghaznavid dynasty (غزنویان ġaznaviyān) was a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin, at their greatest extent ruling large parts of Iran, Afghanistan, much of Transoxiana and the northwest Indian subcontinent from 977 to 1186.

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Ghazni

Ghazni (Pashto/Persian) or Ghaznai, also historically known as Ghaznin or Ghazna, is a city in Afghanistan with a population of nearly 150,000 people.

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Ghilji

The Ghilji (غلجي Ghəljī), غل‌زایی), also called Khaljī (خلجي), Khiljī, Ghilzai, or Gharzai (غرزی; ghar means "mountain" and zai "born of"), are the largest Pashtun tribal confederacy. The Ghilji at various times became rulers of present Afghanistan region and were the most dominant Pashtun confederacy from c. 1000 A.D. until 1747 A.D., when power shifted to the Durranis. The Ghilji tribes are today scattered all over Afghanistan and some parts of Pakistan, but most are concentrated in the region from Zabul to Kabul province, with Ghazni and Paktika provinces in the center of their region. The Ghilji tribes are also settled in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Many of the migrating Kochi people of Afghanistan belong to the Ghilji confederacy. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the current President of Afghanistan, also belongs to the Ghilji tribe. From 1709 to 1738, the Ghilji ruled the Hotak Empire based first in Kandahar, Afghanistan and later, from 1722–1728, in Isfahan, Persia. The founder of the Hotak Empire was Mirwais Hotak. Another famous Ghilji from the 18th century was Azad Khan Afghan, who rose to power from 1752 to 1757 in western Iran.

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Hangu District, Pakistan

Hangu (Pashto) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Hangu, Pakistan

Hangu (هنګو) is a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Hindustan

Hindustan is the Persian name for India, broadly the Indian subcontinent, which later became an endonym.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Islamic schools and branches

This article summarizes the different branches and schools in Islam.

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Kabul

Kabul (کابل) is the capital of Afghanistan and its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country.

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Kandahar Province

Kandahar (کندھار; قندهار) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country next to Pakistan.

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Karlani

Karlāṇī (کرلاڼي) is a Pashtun tribal confederacy.

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Kasi (Pashtun tribe)

The Kasi (کاسي) or Kansi (کانسي) is a Pashtun supertribe son of Kharshbun son of Sarban tribal confederacy, primarily found in Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

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Khalid ibn al-Walid

Abū Sulaymān Khālid ibn al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī (أبو سليمان خالد بن الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي‎; 585–642), also known as Sayf ullah al-Maslūl (سيف الله المسلول; Drawn Sword of God) was a companion of Muhammad.

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Khan of Hangu

The Khan of Hangu, also known as Raees e Hangu, was the title of the tribal chiefs of Hangu valley (Miranzai Valley).

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Khattak

The Khattak (خټک), is a Pashtun tribe numbering over 3 million, which speaks a variant of the softer Kandahari Pashto.

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Khel (clan)

Khel (خیل) are sub-tribes of Pashtun (Afghan) tribes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Khogyani (Pashtun tribe)

The Khogyani (Khugyani, Khogiani,Khugiani,Khakwani) (خوګياڼي, خاکوانی) tribe is a Pashtun tribe of the Karlani or "Hill Tribes" branch.

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Khost

Khost (خوست) is a city in eastern Afghanistan, and the largest city of Loya Paktia.

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Kohat

Kohat (کوهاټ, کوہاٹ), is a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan which serves as the capital of the Kohat District.

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Kurram Agency

Kurram (د کورمې قبايلي سيمه; کرم ایجنسی) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Kurram River

Kurram River (د کورمې سيند) is located in Paktia and Khost provinces of Afghanistan and Kurram Agency, North Waziristan Agency and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Miranzai Valley

The Miranzai Valley, also Hangu, is a mountainous valley situated in the Kohat and Hangu districts in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

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Muhammad Khan Bangash

Nawab Ghazanfar-Jang, Muhammad Khan Bangash (1665 – 1743) laid the foundation of the Nawab of Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, India and was sworn in as its first Nawab in 1715.

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Muslim

A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.

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North-West Frontier Province (1901–2010)

The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) was a province of British India and subsequently of Pakistan.

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Orakzai

Orakzai is a Pashtun tribe native to the Orakzai Agency, FATA of Pakistan and also reside in the North West Frontier Province.

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Orakzai Agency

Orakzai District (د اورکزو قبايلي سيمه) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Paktia Province

Paktia (پکتيا – Paktyā) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country.

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Paktika Province

Paktika (پکتیکا) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southeastern part of the country.

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Pashtuns

The Pashtuns (or; پښتانه Pax̌tānə; singular masculine: پښتون Pax̌tūn, feminine: پښتنه Pax̌tana; also Pukhtuns), historically known as ethnic Afghans (افغان, Afğān) and Pathans (Hindustani: پٹھان, पठान, Paṭhān), are an Iranic ethnic group who mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Patrilineality

Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through his or her father's lineage.

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Peiwar Pass

The Peiwar Kotal Pass, also spelled Paywar, is one of the mountain passes that connect the Paktia Province of Afghanistan and the Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

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Political faction

A political faction is a group of individuals within a larger entity, such as a political party, a trade union or other group, or simply a political climate, united by a particular common political purpose that differs in some respect to the rest of the entity.

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Shia Islam

Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.

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Spīn Ghar

Spīn Ghar (سپين غر), "white mountain", also known as Safēd Kōh (Persian/Urdu: سفید کوه), Speen Ghar, or the Indian Caucasus as late as the 19th century, and as the Morga Range, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 2009 is a mountain range in eastern Afghanistan, which expands into the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.

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Thall

Thall (ټل, Ṭəl) also spells Tall is a town in Thall Tehsil of Hangu District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Turi (Pashtun tribe)

The Turi or Torai are a sub-tribe of the Karlani Pashtun tribe, inhabiting the Kurram Valley, in Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, with a smaller number living across the Durand line in the Paktia province of Afghanistan.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Wazir (Pashtun tribe)

The Wazirs or Waziris (وزير) are a Karlani Pashtun tribe found mainly in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region of North and South Waziristan.

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Wazir dialect

Wazirwola (وزیر واله wazīrwāla, meaning "of the Wazirs"), or Waziri (وزیري)), is an east-central Pashto dialect spoken in North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Bannu and parts of Tank in Pakistan, and in certain adjacent districts of Paktika, Khost and Paktia provinces of Afghanistan.

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Zai (tribe)

Zai (Pashto) are Pashtun and Baloch tribes in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Zurmat District

Districts of Paktia Province Zurmat (زرمت ولسوالۍ / ولسوالی زرمت), also spelled Zormat, is a district in Paktia Province, Afghanistan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangash

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