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Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart
Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart is a 2012 documentary in two parts written and presented by Rory Stewart that tells the story of foreign intervention by Britain, Russia, and the United States in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day.
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Alex Burns
Alex or Alexander Burns may refer to.
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Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop
Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop (27 December 1798 – 1 September 1870) was a Scottish church lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
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Dost Mohammad Khan (Emir of Afghanistan)
Dost Mohammad Khan (دوست محمد خان, December 23, 1793June 9, 1863) was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, (8 September 1790 – 22 December 1871) was a British Tory politician.
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European influence in Afghanistan
The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and mostly imperialistic influence several European nations and colonial powers have had on the historical development of Afghanistan.
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First Anglo-Afghan War
The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known as Disaster in Afghanistan) was fought between British imperial India and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842.
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Flashman (novel)
Flashman is a 1969 novel by George MacDonald Fraser.
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Frederick Mackeson
Lieutenant colonel Frederick Mackeson CB (2 September 1807 – 14 September 1853) was an East India Company officer operating in the North West Frontier of British India and one of Henry Lawrence's "Young Men".
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Gold Medal (RGS)
The Gold Medal presented by the Royal Geographical Society consists of two separate awards: the Founder's Medal 1830 and the Patron's Medal 1838.
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Henry Montgomery Lawrence
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB (28 June 18064 July 1857) was a British military officer, surveyor, administrator and statesman in British India.
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History of Balochistan
The history of Balochistan began in 650 BCE with vague allusions to the region in Greek historical records.
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Indians in Afghanistan
There is a small community of Indians in Afghanistan who are Afghans of Indian origin as well as Indian construction and aid workers involved in rebuilding and humanitarian assistance efforts.
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Istalif
Istālif (استالف) is a village northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, situated at an elevation of.
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James Burnes (surgeon)
James Burnes (1801–1862) was a Scottish medical man in India, who became physician-general of Bombay.
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Jan Prosper Witkiewicz
Jan Prosper Witkiewicz (Jonas Prosperas Vitkevičius; Ян Вѝкторович Виткѐвич, Yan Viktorovich Vitkevich) (June 24, 1808–May 8, 1839) was a Polish-Lithuanian Verslo Žinios 1 October 2013 orientalist, explorer and diplomat in the Russian service.
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Jebal Barez
The Jebal Barez is a mountain chain in the Kerman Province of Iran.
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John Malcolm
Major-general Sir John Malcolm GCB, KLS (2 May 1769 – 30 May 1833) was a Scottish soldier, diplomat, East India Company administrator, statesman, and historian.
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John Shelton (British Army officer)
Colonel John Shelton (1790/91 – 13 May 1845) was an officer of the British Army who commanded the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot during the First Anglo-Afghan War and was second-in-command to Major General Sir William Elphinstone.
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Josiah Harlan
Josiah Harlan, Prince of Ghor (12 June 1799 − October 1871) was an American adventurer, best known for travelling to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king.
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Kabul Expedition (1842)
The Battle of Kabul was part of a punitive campaign undertaken by the British against the Afghans following the disastrous retreat from Kabul.
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Khanate of Khiva
The Khanate of Khiva (Xiva xonligi, خانات خیوه) was a Central Asian Turkic state that existed in the historical region of Khwarezm from 1511 to 1920, except for a period of Afsharid occupation by Nadir Shah between 1740 and 1746.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society A, B, C
About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
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List of Knights and Ladies of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle was founded in 1687.
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Merv
Merv (Merw, Мерв, مرو; مرو, Marv), formerly Achaemenid Persian Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria (Margiana) (Ἀλεξάνδρεια) and Antiochia in Margiana (Ἀντιόχεια τῆς Μαργιανῆς), was a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near today's Mary in Turkmenistan.
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Mir Masjidi Khan
Sahibzada Mir Masjidi Khan (died 1841) was a celebrated Afghan resistance leader who opposed the installation of Shuja Shah Durrani (or 'Shah Shujah') as Emir of Afghanistan by the Government of British India during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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Mohan Lal (Zutshi)
Mohan Lal Zutshi (popularly known as Mohan Lal Kashmiri; 1812 – 1877) was a traveller, diplomat, and author.
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Montrose Academy
Montrose Academy is a state secondary school in Montrose, Angus, Scotland.
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Montrose, Angus
Montrose (Monadh Rois) is a coastal resort town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.
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Naoroji Furdunji
Naoroji Furdunji (1817–1885) was a Parsi reformer from Bombay.
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Order of the Dooranee Empire
The Order of the Dooranee Empire was awarded to British field officers and above during the First Afghan War by Shah Shoojah-ool-Moolk of Afghanistan in gratitude for his restoration to the throne.
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Origins of Lahore
A legend based on oral traditions holds that Lahore, known in ancient times as Lavapuri (City of Lava in Sanskrit), was founded by Prince Lava, the son of Sita and Rama; Kasur was founded by his twin brother Prince Kusha.
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Peshawar
Peshawar (پېښور; پشاور; پشور) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Prahladpuri Temple, Multan
Prahladpuri Temple (پرَہْلادْپُورِی مندر) was an ancient Hindu temple located in Multan city of Punjab province in Pakistan, adjacent to the Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya.
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Regio Patalis
Regio Patalis is Latin for "the Region of Patala".
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Robert Sale
Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB (19 September 1782 – 21 December 1845) was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
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Russian conquest of Central Asia
The Russian conquest of Central Asia took place in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Sind sparrow
The Sind sparrow (Passer pyrrhonotus) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found around the Indus valley region in South Asia.
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Sindri Fort
Sindri Fort (Sindree in old literature) was a fort lying on the Nara river, an eastern arm of the Indus River upstream of Lakhpat in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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The Great Game
"The Great Game" was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of the nineteenth century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia.
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Theories of Pashtun origin
There are multiple claims or theories about the origins of the Pashtun tribes.
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Tomb of Lala Rukh
Tomb of Lala Rukh (مقبرہ لالہ رخ) is a historical tomb in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan, that is traditionally attributed to Princess Lala Rukh, daughter of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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Treachery of the Long Knives
The Treachery of the Long Knives (Brad y Cyllyll Hirion) was a pseudohistorical massacre of British Celtic chieftains by Anglo-Saxon soldiers at a peace conference on Salisbury Plain in the 5th century.
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Wazir Akbar Khan
Wazīr Akbar Khān (1816–1845; وزير اکبر خان), born Mohammad Akbar Khān (محمد اکبر خان) and also known as Amīr Akbar Khān (امير اکبر خان), was an Afghan prince, general, and finally emir for about three years until his death.
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Wazir Bagh
Wazir Bagh (Pashto, Urdu: وزير باغ) is a historical old 18th century garden in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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William Brockedon
William Brockedon (13 October 1787 – 29 August 1854) was a 19th-century English painter, writer and inventor.
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William Hay Macnaghten
Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet (24 August 1793 – 23 December 1841) was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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122nd Rajputana Infantry (God's Own)
122nd Rajputana Infantry (God's Own) (also known as 3rd Battalion The Rajputana Rifles) was one of the six regiments of the British Indian Army, that were brought together to form six battalions of the 6th Rajputana Rifles Regiment.
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1842 retreat from Kabul
The 1842 retreat from Kabul (or Massacre of Elphinstone's army) took place during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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