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  Ghor - LoveToKnow 1911
Ghor is mentioned in the Shahnama of Firdousi (A.D. Io10), and in the Arab geographers of that time, though these latter fail in details almost as much as we moderns, thus indicating how little accessible the country has been through all ages.
The chief part of the present population of Ghor are Taimanis, belonging to the class of nomad or semi-nomad clans called Airak, intermingled with Zuris and Tajiks.
Besides the thrones of Ghor and Ghazni, the Shansabaniah family, in the person of Fakhruddin, the eldest of the seven sons of Malik `Izzuddin, founded a kingdom in the Oxus basin, having its seat at Bamian, which endured for two or three generations, till extinguished by the power of Khwarizm (1214).
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ghor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ghor, the Arabic Al Ghawr, region of the Jordan Valley, c.70 mi (110 km) long, between the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias) and the Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and Israel and the West Bank.
A brother of the sultan of Ghor, he was made governor of Ghazni in 1173 and from there launched a series of invasions of India.
The East Ghor Canal branches from the Yarmuk to irrigate the E Ghor region of the Jordan
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ghor   (493 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ghor, the, Middle East (Middle Eastern Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
Although the Ghor's flat terraces are fertile, agricultural development is impeded by aridity.
In the northern half of the valley, on the Jordanian side, is the East Ghor irrigation project (built 1958–66).
In the southern part of the Ghor, oasis farming is practiced; in the nonirrigated parts, sheep and goat herding predominates.
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 The Ghaurids :: Khyber.ORG
Ghor was then the nucleus of a vast but transient military empire which at times stretched from Gorgan in the west to northern India in the east, only to be overwhelmed by the Khwarzim Shahs and to disappear, as far as the eastern Iranian lands were concerned, on the eve of the Mongol cataclysm.
The chiefs of Ghor only achieve firm historical mention in the early 5th/11th century with the Ghaznavid raids into their land, when Ghor was still a pagan enclave.
Of more lasting significance for the religious complexion of Ghor was the wide sympathy there for the pietistic, ascetic Sunni sect of the Karramia, which had arisen in Nishapur during the 4th/10th century and had been patronized by the early Ghaznavid sultans.
www.khyber.org /pashtohistory/ghaurids.shtml   (3059 words)

  
 Rory Stewart: My enemy's enemies
Many of the officials in Ghor, from the governor to the director of education in the district of Shahrak, are tribal chiefs from families that have controlled the province for centuries.
Or the brutal governors of Helmand, Uruzgan or Ghor.
In Ghor, the road was cleared, the US-led Afghan column continued on its mission of support to the central government and I climbed down into the valley floor to meet Amruddin, the Aimaq herdsman.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/opeds/2004/rory_stewart_enemy's_enemies_ft_091804.htm   (4044 words)

  
 GHOR, or GHUR - Online Information article about GHOR, or GHUR
Ghor is mentioned in the Shahnama of Firdousi (A.D.
Theprinces of Ghor experienced, about the middle of the r3th century, a revival of power, which endured for 140 years.
All the country now known as Ghor was mapped during the progress of the Russo-Afghan boundary delimitation.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GHOR_or_GHUR.html   (2099 words)

  
 Summary of Robert E. Howard's "Ghor, Kin-Slayer"
Ghor then awakens on the beach, grievously injured and surrounded by the bodies of his men, but no bodies of the bronze men are in sight.
Ghor realizes that he is but a "test" that the gods made to compare their Wild Nature against their new invention of Civilization, and that he has failed.
She explains that while Ghor is in the form of a wolf he is close to nature, and as such he can draw from the powers of the sleeping Old Ones, god-like beings who due to a great blasphemy they committed have been sentenced to sleep for eons.
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 History of Afghanistan
The historical accuracy of such tales must, of course, be ques-tioned for when Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi invaded Ghor in 1009 he found the people to be pagan, but the fickleness of fortune is accurately illustrated and Sultan Mahmud did negotiate with a local Shansabani chief ruling at Ahangaran where prized Ghorid arms were manufactured.
Fratricidal bickerings at home in Ghor were immediately set aside once this heinous insult became known and a relentless enmity betw&en Ghor and Ghazni began, to end in the obliteration of the Ghaznavids.
These scenes at Ghazni were repeated several times as the army returned to Ghor; the pleasure villas of Lashkar Gah were gutted, the countryside completely ravaged, and at Firozkoh victory tow-ers were built of Ghazni's soil carried there on the backs of cap-tives whose blood served as mortar.
www.afghanan.net /afghanistan/ghorids.htm   (904 words)

  
 Chagcharan
Chagcharan, the capital of Ghor province, is also the main town in remote Ghor province, 220 miles [350 kilometers] west of Kabul.
Ghor [Ghowr or Ghur] is a mountainous region and province (1979 est.
Lithuania led the new PRT in Chagcharan, capital of Ghor province, and Spain led the PRT in Qaleh-Now, capital of Baghdis province.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/chagcharan.htm   (942 words)

  
 King Abdullah II Official Website - News
Ghor Al Safi, 9/5/2006, (Communication & Information Division - Royal Hashemite Court) -- His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday issued directives to expand and upgrade the Ghor Al Safi Hospital and implement an agricultural project in the area to alleviate poverty and unemployment in the Southern Ghor.
Ghor Al Safi is classified as one of 20 poverty pockets in the country due to its poverty level, which exceeds 34.3 per cent; most of the area's 40,000 inhabitants depend on agriculture to make a living.
During a meeting with community leaders and representatives from Ghor Al Safi and Southern Ghor, the King issued directives for the establishment of a separate paediatric ward as the current one is part of the maternity ward.
kingabdullah.jo /news/details.php?kn_serial=4339&...   (377 words)

  
 GHOR
GHOR staat voor Geneeskundige Hulpverlening bij Ongevallen en Rampen.
Onder het motto "Veiligheid met Zorg geregeld" zorgt de GHOR ervoor dat iedereen binnen de geneeskundige sector goed voorbereid is en dat slachtoffers goed geholpen worden op het moment dat er echt een groot ongeluk gebeurt.
De GHOR Rotterdam-Rijnmond zorgt voor een optimale organisatie van de grootschalige geneeskundige hulpverlening in de regio.
www.ghor-rotterdam-rijnmond.nl /GHORV3/ODG2.html   (398 words)

  
 GHOR Drenthe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Grondslag voor de GHOR is de Wet rampen en zware ongevallen (WRZO) en de Wet geneeskundige hulpverlening bij rampen (WGHR).
De GHOR zorgt ervoor om zoveel mogelijk slachtoffers van rampen te voorkomen en zorgt ervoor dat bij een rampsituatie een optimale en adequate geneeskundige hulpverlening wordt geboden.
In “vredestijd” moet de GHOR ervoor zorgen dat alle schakels van de gezondheidsketting stevig geklonken worden aan alle andere schakels van de ambtelijke en de bestuurlijkekettingen.
www.hvdrenthe.nl /rav-drenthe/ghor.htm   (842 words)

  
 Ghor Apartments for rent Ghor apartment rentals, Ghor furnished apartments to rent.
Ghor Apartments for rent Ghor apartment rentals, Ghor furnished apartments to rent.
Ghor apartment rentals and houses for rent are posted daily by Ghor owners, property managers and roommates.
Ghor apartment rentals, sublets, rooms and potential Ghor renters have not been screened, verified or evaluated.
www.sublet.com /City_Rentals/Ghor_Rentals.asp   (181 words)

  
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Ghor police chief Mohammad Zaman told Reuters that his forces are concentrated in the northern parts of the city and are planning to recapture the lost territory.
The crisis in Ghor marks the third incident in recent months in which a Kabul-appointed governor has been ousted by a local warlord and thus far none of these governors have been restored to their positions.
The tensions in Ghor are apparently related to the refusal by Abdul Salam to disarm his militia under the DDR program unless he was offered a government post.
www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2004/06/23.asp   (2700 words)

  
 Freezing, starving and dying / Remote Afghan villagers say at least 1,000 children have been killed in devastating ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
While most of the western province of Ghor in the Hindu Kush mountains has remained inaccessible after blizzards and temperatures as low as minus 22 Fahrenheit cut all road access a month ago, three aid workers from Catholic Relief Service recently reached the interior on horseback.
Ghor is one of the least developed regions of Afghanistan, despite the billions of dollars that have been poured into the country since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
Aid workers blame the death toll in Ghor on a complete lack of preparation after many mild winters, combined with the toll on the immune systems of people of the province caused by drought, chronic poverty and the lack of medical facilities.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/03/MNG3LBJL4C1.DTL   (986 words)

  
 RAWA.org: Bitter winter kills more than a thousand children in Ghor province
There are 270 villages in Tulak and approximately 1,000 in the whole of Ghor, though with so many area.
Ghor remains all but unaffected by the billions of dollars of foreign aid poured into Afghanistan since 2001, locked in a near medieval state of development.
On average Ghor's inhabitants are living on half to three quarters of their daily calorie requirement.
www.rawa.org /cold-die.htm   (776 words)

  
 Ghorids of Bamiyan
Ghor is a mountainous region [Now known as Hazarajat and populated by the Hazara tribe who, are of Turcko-Mongoloid stock, profess the Shi'a faith and were colonized in that area by Chengiz's successors] lying west-southwest of Kabul and West-Northwest of Ghazni.
Under the present political divisions the region of Ghor is divided into the provinces of Ghowr [capital Chaghcharan], Bamian [capital Bamian], and some areas of Paravan [capital Charikar], and other provinces to the North and West including Baghlan, Balkh, Tukhar, Samangan and Sar-e-pol.
All the other dynasties carved out of the Samanid Empire and surrounding Ghor, whether Seljuqs, Ghaznavid or Qarakhanid were Turks; in such a milieu the Ghor princes would have found it hard to preserve their Iranian blood undiluted.
www.islamiccoinsgroup.50g.com /assikka22/ghorids.htm   (1378 words)

  
 Analysis: Afghanistan, Natural disasters and complex political emergencies: responding to drought in Afghanistan, ...
The mission found the population of Ghor to be chronically poor.
Ghor is the second-largest source of internal displacement in western Afghanistan.
Ghor is mainly under Taliban control, but opposition groups are also present, and fighting has broken out with renewed intensity over recent months.
www.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/s/BB94DF5AF0EF1767C1256AD300572F45   (1412 words)

  
 Water resources of the Jordan Valley region - UNRWA, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, CHAS. T. MAIN, INC. report, plan (31 ...
The land in the Ghor slopes generally southward with a gentle rise from the edge of the Zor to the intersection with the hills.
Among these, entering the Ghor south of Lake Tiberias, are the Wadis Arab, Ziqlab, Jurm, Yabes, Kafrinje, Rajeb, Zerka, Sha'eb, Kefrein and Rama on the east, and the wadis Faria, Auja and Qilt on the west.
A similar situation exists regarding the western Ghor canal and headworks, the diversion dams on the Banyas and Dan Rivers and the canal to the hill country.
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 the Ghor — FactMonster.com
Ghor - Ghor, Ghowr, or Ghur, mountainous region and province (1979 est.
Muhammad of Ghor - Muhammad of Ghor, d.
A brother of the sultan of Ghor, he was...
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 Afghanistan - Ghor airlift ends
Two Hercules aircraft used to airlift food to Ghor province in central Afghanistan during the winter are returning to their African base.
An extensive ICRC food programme was started in Ghor in August 2001, but had to be interrupted between September and November because of the instability in the country.
Most of the population depend on farming and livestock to earn a living, but the harvests of recent years were severely reduced and many of the livestock and other assets had to be sold.
www.icrc.org /Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5AMK9B?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print   (486 words)

  
 The Trust works with people to promote thriving towns and villages, developing dynamic partnerships between ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Taliban claim recapturing Ghor province -DAWN - National; October 22, 2001
KABUL, Oct 21: The Taliban on Sunday claimed to have regained control of the central Afghan province of Ghor from the opposition Northern Alliance.
However, the opposition immediately denied the claim, saying its forces still held Ghor’s capital, Chaghcharan, and most of the rest of the province.
Ghor is not a vital province in the battle for control of Afghanistan but it was the only major area the opposition had taken from the Taliban since the US launched its assault on the regime on October 7.
www.dawn.com /2001/10/22/nat3.htm   (231 words)

  
 Afghanistan: The Ill Confront Misery Of Medical Care In Remote Ghor Province
Chaghcharan, Afghanistan; 8 August 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The mullahs of Afghanistan's remote Ghor Province are in despair.
Ghor has only five doctors and a single 20-bed hospital in Chaghcharan -- a dusty village, nearly 400 kilometers west of Kabul, which serves as the province's capital.
She is working with a Medecins du Monde midwife to reduce the dangers of pregnancy for Ghor's women.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/08/mil-030808-rferl-150705.htm   (1096 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | US movie actor is 'Afghan prince'
As a result of a treaty Harlan signed, his heirs are granted the title Prince of Ghor in perpetuity.
He discovered he was the prince of the western province of Ghor when his younger brother - who is named Harlan - emailed him after reading reviews of Macintyre's book.
It was during this expedition that Harlan stuck his deal with the Hazaras, and in particular - Refee Beg, the Prince of Ghor at that time.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/3750931.stm   (676 words)

  
 Muhammad of Ghor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muhammad of Ghor (Persian:محمد شہاب الدین غوری) also Muhammad Ghori,Mohammad Ghauri, etc., originally named Mu'izz-ad-din, b.
Muhammad was the brother of the Sultan Ghiyas-ud-din Muhammad of Ghor, a region of what is now a province in Afghanistan.
Ghor lay on the western boundary of the Ghaznevid empire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muhammad_of_Ghor   (551 words)

  
 In Brief
WFP is particularly concerned about the 260,000 people living in certain districts in the provinces of Badghis and Ghor, where rampant insecurity coupled with the impending specter of winter makes already bad conditions much worse.
People in Badghis and Ghor, already among the most vulnerable Afghanistan, could be blocked by snow for the winter months.
Over 50 percent of Ghor's and Badghis' population live in mountainous areas, where they rely on rainfed cultivation of wheat to survive.
www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_brief/afghanistan08_11.html   (691 words)

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