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	Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afghanistan is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest.
		Afghanistan is an extremely poor country, highly dependent on farming and livestock raising.
		International efforts to rebuild Afghanistan lead to the formulation of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA), as a result of the December 2001 Bonn Agreement, and later addressed at the Tokyo Donors Conference for Afghan Reconstruction in January 2002, where $4.5 billion was collected for a trust fund to be administered by the World Bank Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_(1911_Encyclopedia) (2528 words)

	Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghanistan (افغانستان in Dari (Persian) and Pashtu (Afghan)) is a country in Central/Southwest Asia.
		The Afghanistan nation-state as it is known came into existence in 1746 under the Durrani Empire but control was ceded to the United Kingdom until King Amanullah acceded to throne 1919.
		Afghanistan is an extremely poor country highly on farming and livestock raising.
	www.freeglossary.com /Afghanistan_(1911_Encyclopedia) (1875 words)

	Afghanistan (1911 Encyclopedia)
		North of the main water-parting of Afghanistan the broad synclinal plateau into which the Hindu Kush is merged is traversed by the gorges of the Saighan, Bamian and Kamard tributaries of the Kunduz, and farther to the west by the Band-i-Amir or Balkh river.
		Open canals are usual in the Kabul valley, and in eastern Afghanistan generally; but over all the western parts of the country much use is made of the karez, which is a subterranean aqueduct uniting the waters of several springs, and conducting their combined volume to the surface at a lower level.
		The declared object of this policy was to maintain the independence and integrity of Afghanistan, to secure the friendly alliance of its ruler, and thus to interpose a barrier of mountainous country between the expanding power of Russia in Central Asia and the British dominion in India.
	www.ukpedia.com /a/afghanistan-1911-encyclopedia-.html (7178 words)

	Afghanistan timeline 1911-1920
		In Afghanistan itself the road between Kabul and Jalalabad is for a considerable time unsafe for traders, but matters improve towards the end of the year.
		Afghanistan passes through the year peaceably and the relations of the country with the Indian government are most cordial.
		Both Persia and Afghanistan are nominally sovereign states, but in practice the British Raj is the supreme protecting power in Afghanistan, whereas in Persia, the paramount power is Russia rather than United Kingdom.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Afghanistan_timeline_1911-1920 (1516 words)

	Afghanistan - Wikipedia
		Afghanistan was at war with the USSR from 1979 - 1989, during which Pakistan, the United States, and other countries backed the mujahedin against the USSR.
		In 1997 the Taliban, a group of "Islamic students" took control of the country (except for a small region in the northeast), restoring relative peace and stability through the enforcement of severe Islamic laws restricting a wide range of freedoms in an effort to realize their idea of a true and pure Islamic state.
		On October 7, 2001 the United States began an attack on Afghanistan in response to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, which the United States asserts is the responsibility of Osama bin Laden, who resides in Afghanistan under Taliban protection.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan (359 words)

	Learn more about Afghanistan in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ruler of Afghanistan belonged to the Abdali tribal group, whose name was changed to Dorrani on the accession of Ahmad Shah.
		Opposition against the new Communist government was immense, and with the government in danger of collapse, the Soviet Union invaded on December 24, 1979.
		The population of Afghanistan is divided in a large number of ethnic groups, which adds to the political unrest.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/af/afghanistan_1.html (1374 words)

	Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Between the fall of the Taliban after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the success of the 2003 Loya jirga, Afghanistan was referred to by the West as the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan.
		Afghanistan's government is attempting to hold elections as soon as possible.
		Afghanistan is a mountainous country, although there are plains in the north and southwest.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/afghanistan (1676 words)

	Afghanistan
		As of 2002, an interim government is in place, led by president Hamid Karzai, with many elements from the Northern Alliance, and a mix from other regional and ethnic groups formed from the transition government by the Loya jirga.
		Main article: Education in Afghanistan[?] In the spring of 2003, it was estimated that 30% of Afghanistan's 7,000 schools had been seriously damaged during more than two decades of Soviet occupation, civil war and Taliban rule.
		Current problems that exist for the administration include controlling bands of bandits roaming Afghanistan's rural sector, removing the debris (and in particular, unmapped buried land mines) from decades of civil war from the countryside and rebuilding the Afghan economy.
	www.encyclopedian.com /af/Afghanistan.html (1663 words)

	Detailed Country Profile: Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghanistan's recent history is characterized by war and civil unrest.
		In late 2001, major leaders from the Afghan opposition groups and diaspora met in Bonn, Germany, and agreed on a plan for the formulation of a new government structure that resulted in the inauguration of Hamid KARZAI as Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority (AIA) on 22 December 2001.
		Timeline of U.S. attack on Afghanistan in December 2001
	www.nationmaster.com /country/af (382 words)

	Talk:Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Afghanistan is a republic, and Hamid Karzai is President and Head of State.
		Afghanistan (1911 Encyclopedia) was listed on VfD, but suggestions made that it be merged here instead.
		Afghanistan in history is best seen as a collection of Khanates in a border only visible to outsiders, who would only deal with the rulers of Kabul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Afghanistan (7016 words)

	Station Information - Afghanistan timeline 1911-1920
		Again Afghanistan is "happy in having no history." The amir is loyal in carrying out the agreement for the removal of outlaws to beyond fifty miles of the Indian frontier, but this has not wholly stopped the raids.
		Both Persia and Afghanistan are nominally sovereign states, but in practice the British Raj is the supreme protecting power in Afghanistan, whereas in Persia, the paramount power is Russia rather than Great Britain.
		In the past there was an agreement between Great Britain and Afghanistan that Afghanistan should have no relations with any foreign government except Great Britain.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/a/af/afghanistan_timeline_1911_1920.html (1460 words)

	Afghanistan - Wikipedia
		Afghanistan, negara di persimpangan jalan Asia Tengah, telah banyak mengalami sejarah yang bergolak.
		Sebuah negara Afghanistan telah diasaskan pada tahun 1746 di bawah Empayar Durrani tetapi kuasa pemerintah telah dipindahkan kepada British sehingga Raja Amanullah menaiki takhta pada tahun 1919.
		Period stabil yang terakhir sekali dikecapi oleh Afghanistan wujud dari tahun 1933 hingga 1973, apabila negara itu berada di bawah pimpinan Raja Zahir Shah.
	ms.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan (1457 words)

	GHAZNI - LoveToKnow Article on GHAZNI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		, a famous city in Afghanistan, the seat of an extensive empire under two medieval dynasties, and again of prominent interest in the modern history of British India.
		Ghazni stands on the high tableland of central Afghanistan, in 68 18 E. long., 33 44 N. lat., at a height of 7280 ft. above the sea, and on the direct road between Kandahar and Kabul, 221 m.
		He made himself lord of nearly all the present territory of Afghanistan and of the Punjab.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GH/GHAZNI.htm (2458 words)

	Balkh - InformationBlast
		Balkh is now a small town in the Province of Balkh, Afghanistan, about 20 kilometers northwest of Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital and some 46 miles south of the Amu Darya, the Oxus River of antiquity, which formerly flowed past Balkh.
		In 1911 the Encyclopedia Britannica described a settlement of about 500 Afghan settlers, a colony of Jews and a small bazaar, set in the midst of a waste of ruins and acres of debris.
		The town was garrisoned in 1911 by a few hundred irregulars (kasidars), the regular troops of Afghan Turkestan being cantoned at Takhtapul, near Mazar-i-Sharif.
	www.informationblast.com /Balkh.html (1024 words)

	dost mahommed khan
		His elder brother, the chief of the Barakzai, Fatteh Khan, took an important part in raising Mahmud Shah to the sovereignty of Afghanistan in 1800 and in restoring him to the throne in 1809.
		He remained in captivity during the British occupation, during the disastrous retreat of the army of occupation in January 1842, and until the recapture of Kabul in the autumn of 1842.
		He was then set at liberty, in consequence of the resolve of the British government to abandon the attempt to intervene in the internal politics of Afghanistan.
	www.fact-library.com /dost_mahommed_khan.html (682 words)

	Karzai & Associates: Afghanistan's Trickle-Down Reconstruction
		The reconstruction of Afghanistan upon the oil and gas pipeline is often pointed to in the West.
		Rashiddudin, Afghanistan's jet-setting emerald merchant and the major shareholder in several mines is conveniently the brother-in-law of Masood.
		Afghanistan was economically [and under the Taliban, ideologically] an extension of Pakistan.
	www.cursor.org /stories/karzai.htm (7794 words)

	Mullah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mullahs seized power in Iran in 1979, and later, in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
		Mullahs are considered to be able to give direction and make judgments based on their religious studies.
		The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica pointed out that Arabic maula was a term which originally expressed the legal bond connecting a former owner with his manumitted slave, both patron and client being called maula.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mullah (292 words)

	Online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
		The Online Encyclopedia is based on the 11th Edition Encyclopedia Britannica, first published in 1911.
		This historically significant book is the last encyclopedia to offer articles in such extreme depth.
		Over 320 historians, 250 ministers, and many diplomats, theologists, scientists, and government officials from around the world personally wrote this encyclopedia's articles.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ADA_AIZ/index.html (502 words)

	1911. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Publication of the Kabul-based Persian language semimonthly Seraj al-akhbar (Torch of the News), which was read widely outside of Afghanistan.
		Raised in Damascus, Tarzi was a nationalist who supported modernist and Pan-Islamist causes and helped organize the Young Afghan movement.
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	www.aol.bartleby.com /67/1357.html (135 words)

	Ghazni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ghazni is a city in central Afghanistan, situated on a plateau at 7280 feet above sea level.
		Upper sections of the minarets have been damaged or destroyed.
		This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghazni (192 words)

	afghani - definition of afghani by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
		A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan; an Afghan.
		Afghanistan from the arrival of Islam until the Durrani
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	dict.thefreelibrary.com /Afghani (181 words)

	Articles - Abdur Rahman Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In March 1880 a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent.
		At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abbdur Rahman was officially recognized as amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.
		The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881 the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new amir.
	www.beadscenter.com /articles/Abdur_Rahman_Khan (1403 words)

	Afghanistan - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Afghanistan : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		AFGHANISTAN : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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	www.onelook.com /?w=Afghanistan (195 words)

	List of Afghanistan-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Afghanistan-related_topics (194 words)

	Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have used it for historical references because it is more informative than most modern encyclopedias.
		The 1911 Edition of the Britannica is a classic; written before the age of "political correctness." Its authors had opinions and were not afraid to state them.
		Had a great encyclopedia when I was a kid.
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	World History Blog: What is History? An Essay from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
		Some descriptions for sites are taken from the Open Directory Project.
		This is a strange little site which has an essay on what history is from the 1911 Britannica.
		It is a little hard to read but is interesting.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /2004/07/what-is-history-essay-from-1911.html (409 words)

	Badghis province - TheBestLinks.com - Afghanistan, 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, Hari Rud, Provinces of Afghanistan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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