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- Shah Durrani had served, tribes in the Hindu Kush had been growing stronger ... an army to subdue the areas north of the Hindu Kush mountains. In short order ...17 KB (2,664 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- that the first wave went over the Hindu Kush, forming the Gandhara grave ... Indo-European presence east of the Hindu Kush of the bearers of Rigvedic ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 17:29, 28 November 2024
- as a hero of Islam by some, as a defiler of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist shrines ... the Samanids, in Balkh, who crossed the Hindu Kush mountains to seize Ghazni ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 07:47, 27 March 2025
- *Hindu Kush earthquakes (2002). Over 1,100 killed. *Molise earthquake (2002) Twenty-six killed. *Bam Earthquake (2003). Over 40,000 people are ...23 KB (2,982 words) - 17:36, 12 February 2024
- The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ...33 KB (5,027 words) - 15:59, 28 February 2025
- the snows and glaciers of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Himalayan ranges of ... The name Indus is a Latinization of Hindu, in turn the Iranian variant ...24 KB (3,437 words) - 17:40, 28 November 2024
- and his Macedonians, who believed that on the Hindu Kush (which they called the Caucasus Indicus) and on the shores of the Jaxartes (which they called ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- king Euthydemus I, led his troops across the Hindu Kush. ... quot; following his victories south of the Hindu Kush. Bopearachchi, 52 ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 17:30, 28 November 2024
- of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. Some historical cultivars have had a striped, "feathered ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- is the oldest translatable scripture in the Hindu religion, providing the original ... (separated from the upper Indus by the Hindu Kush mountain range, and some ...41 KB (6,083 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
- the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges ... the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges ...37 KB (5,495 words) - 20:28, 17 July 2024
- valley, between two steep ranges of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. ... which has survived. Around 670 C.E., the Hindu-Shahi dynasty took control. ...23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
- region of Badari, the northern ridge of the Hindu Kush arc. ... monotheistic devotion is dedicated in the Hindu pantheon, is also viewed ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- The terrain comprises mostly rugged mountains—the Hindu Kush and ... Damaging earthquakes occur in the Hindu Kush mountains. Flooding and ...51 KB (7,584 words) - 15:53, 29 October 2025
- peaks of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges, many of ... of Sindh and Punjab came under the rule of Hindu rajas. ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 00:48, 3 November 2025
- The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Muslim-dominated Kashmir, Hindu ... Mountains are to the north, and the Hindu Kush lies to the west. Among ...51 KB (7,778 words) - 01:36, 3 March 2025
- to the southeastern edge of the Hindu Kush range. That route became the major avenue of inserting foreign fighters and material support into ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- in Paropamisade (Paropamisus Greek for Hindu Kush). In 327 B.C.E. the Greeks ... In the Indian Hindu epic Mahabharata, Draupadi (wife of the five Pandava ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 07:44, 27 March 2025
- to Ranganatha, a reclining form of the Hindu deity Maha Vishnu. ... built in Java were influenced by Indian Hindu architecture, as displayed ...37 KB (5,368 words) - 21:28, 9 November 2023
- which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the ... Desert. The Himalayas, along with the Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan, ...64 KB (9,516 words) - 16:30, 4 December 2024
