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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ghowr
		Barakhana is in Ghowr, a province about the size of Switzerland.
		Chagcharan, the capitol of Ghowr province, is a four-day drive from Kabul and remains one of the most inaccessible areas of Afghanistan.
		The official confirmed opposition claims that the town of Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghowr province, was seized by opposition forces over the past 48 hours.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ghowr (781 words)

	Ghowr Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ghowr (sometimes spelled Ghor) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
		Ghowr which was a part of Persia for many centuries was one of the regions which participated in the Persian Cultural Revival after the Arab invasion of Persia.
		Ghowr was also the centre of the Ghurid dynasty in the 12th and 13th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghowr_Province (267 words)

	Province Definition / Province Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Provinces of ChinaA province, in the context of China, is a translation of sheng (省 shěng), which is an administrative division of China.
		Provinces of ItalyIn Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione).
		Provinces of the PhilippinesA province (lalawigan or probinsya in Filipino) is the primary local government unit in the Philippines.
	www.elresearch.com /Province (1143 words)

	Ghowr Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ghowr province (sometimes spelled Ghor) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
		Ghowr was also the centre of the Ghurid dinasty in the 12th and 13th century.
		On June 17, 2004, hundreds of troops of Abdul Salaam Khan, whom had rejected the Afghan government's plan to disarm regional militias, attacked Chaghcharan and took over the city in an afternoon-long siege.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Ghowr_Province (683 words)

	AFGHANISTAN PROVINCES
		Badakhshan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.It is in the east of the country.
		Nurestan province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
		.Vardak province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
	abdullahspictures.tripod.com /id14.html (763 words)

	Ghowr Province: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ghowr province (sometimes spelled Ghor) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan (provinces of Afghanistan: more facts about this subject).
		The name Ghowr is a dialectal version of the Middle-Persian (Middle-Persian: pahlavi is a term that refers:...
		The remains of their capital Firuzkuh, including UNESCO (UNESCO: An agency of the United Nations that promotes education and communication and the arts) World Heritage site (World Heritage site: more facts about this subject) the Minaret of Jam (Minaret of Jam: the minaret of jam is a unesco world heritage site in western afghanistan, by...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ghowr_province (357 words)

	Ghowr - Encyclopedia.com
		the town of Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghowr province, was seized by opposition forces...
		"It was very shocking." In remote Ghowr province, one of the worst affected of Afghanistan's 32 provinces...
		Salaam overran parts of Chaghcharan, capital of the central province of Ghowr, after firing hundreds of rockets that landed in civilian areas, the provincial...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Ghowr.html (793 words)

	The Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington, DC
		Ghazni, one of the central provinces, hosts many tombs of noted poets and scientists, such as Al-Biruni.
		The Minaret of Jam, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is located in Ghowr province.
		Ghowr was also the centre of the Ghurid dynasty in the 12th and 13th centuries.
	www.embassyofafghanistan.org /travelinfo.html (357 words)

	CNN.com - Scurvy likely cause of Afghanistan outbreak - March 8, 2002
		Forty people in Ghowr province have died from the disease, and aid workers have seen symptoms in at least 80 people in a dozen villages.
		Ghowr province was a battleground ground between Taliban and Northern Alliance forces late last year, and suffered during years of drought throughout the country.
		The International Committee for the Red Cross continues to try to distribute food in Ghowr and the WHO hoped it would be able to air-drop vitamin C later Friday.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/08/afghanistan.outbreak (378 words)

	ONLINE - International News Network
		GHOWR, Afghanistan: -- When I tell an Afghan friend about my plans to travel to the Ghowr province, he laughs and says he'd once seen the provincial capital, Chaghcharan, from a plane.
		For a province to be laughably remote to an Afghan says quite a bit, as the entire landlocked country, with its lack of paved roads or rail service, is nothing but isolated.
		Mullah Abdel Khader Emami is running for a parliamentary seat in Ghowr based on his demand for a $35 million road that runs from Kabul to Herat, a key hub for trade with Iran, through Ghowr.
	www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=87349 (2552 words)

	Herat -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is bounded by Iran (west), by Turkmenistan and the Afghan province of Badghisat (north), by Ghowr Province (east), and by Farah Province (south).
		The province is traversed from east to west by the Harirud (river), along which most of the people live in agricultural oases.
		The province is not entirely agricultural, however; petroleum is produced at Tir Pol, in the west, and there is some light industry at Herat city.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9040098 (814 words)

	Real Afghan Network - Geography - Provinces of Afghanistan
		Badakhshan province contains the Wakhan (or Vakhan) Corridor, a narrow strip of land extending eastward to China.
		, an additional 14 provinces were formed, and several of the old province names were replaced.
		Afghanistan disagree about whether Khost and Nuristan provinces were legally created.
	www.realafghan.com /geography/provinces.htm (284 words)

	Wikipedia: Afghanistan
		In March 3 and 25 2002, a series of earthquakes struck Afghanistan, with a loss of thousands of homes and over 1800 lives.
		The earthquakes occurred at Samangan Province (March 3) and Baghlan Province (March 25).
		The two famous statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan province were destroyed by the Taliban as symbols of another religion.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/a/af/afghanistan.html (1479 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Operation Dreamseed recently conducted a mission into Ghowr Province during the exfiltration of World Health Organization doctors that had been inserted to treat an outbreak of Whooping Cough...
		Baghlan Province, Afghanistan AF05: Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan AF06: Farah Province, Afghanistan AF07: Faryab Province, Afghanistan AF08: Ghazni Province, Afghanistan AF09: Ghowr Province, Afghanistan...
		Badakhshan province Badghis province Baghlan province Balkh province Bamiyan province Farah province Faryab province Ghazni province Ghowr province Helmand province Herat province Jowzjan province Kabul province...
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		ISLAMBAD, 12 Mar 2002 (IRIN) - Some 40 people in the district of Teyvareh in Afghanistan's northwestern Ghowr Province have died of disease, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official in the capital, Kabul, confirmed to IRIN on Tuesday.
		In response to this, WFP has flown two helicopters from the western province of Herat to Ghowr to rescue the ACF team, which comprises five national and two international staff members.
		IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=24574&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&... (526 words)

	IRIN Asia \| Asia \| Afghanistan \| AFGHANISTAN: Unidentified disease kills 40 in Ghowr Province \| Health & Nutrition \| ...
		ISLAMBAD, 12 March 2002 (IRIN) - Some 40 people in the district of Teyvareh in Afghanistan's northwestern Ghowr Province have died of disease, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official in the capital, Kabul, confirmed to IRIN on Tuesday.
		In response to this, WFP has flown two helicopters from the western province of Herat to Ghowr to rescue the ACF team, which comprises five national and two international staff members.
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	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=24574&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=AFGHANISTAN (476 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Afghanistan Update
		KABUL, Afghanistan, July 2, 2004 —; Afghanistan National Army (ANA) troops were deployed to the Ghowr province to restore peace after factional fighting erupted in late June.
		As the one national army serving the government of the people of Afghanistan, the ANA was rapidly deployed to provide security for representatives of the central government who traveled to Chaghcharan, Ghowr’s capital city 220 miles west of Kabul, to meet with leaders when fighting began between rival Afghan Militia Forces.
		NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, June 24, 2004 — The Jalalabad Provincial Reconstruction Team is continuing its efforts to accelerate the well-being of Afghan people in eastern Afghanistan and its partnership with the Afghan people here.
	www.defendamerica.mil /afghanistan/update/jul2004/au070204.html (2544 words)

	Press Releases: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: Locals in Ghowr province turn in illegal weapons
		Afghanistan: Locals in Ghowr province turn in illegal weapons
		Among the weapons turned in to the Afghan National Police (ANP) by local residents were AK-47 assault rifles, RPG rocket launchers, and PPS submachine guns.
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	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/YSAR-6XBN6M?OpenDocument (171 words)

	Battling to bring winter relief to Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Although hundreds are reported dead in the coldest winter in the region in decades, officials at the Ministry of Health have confirmed only 200 deaths so far, mostly attributed to severe respiratory disease such as pneumonia, whooping cough and tuberculosis.
		Among the areas of greatest concern are the mountainous provinces of Badakhshan and Baghlan in the north and Nurestan, further south, she said.
		Meanwhile, 21 of 25 passes in the country were reopened after several days of work by Afghan Ministry of Public Works, Solidarités, the NGO in charge of the maintenance of three of the main passes in the central highlands region, and the United Nations Office for Project Service (UNOPS).
	paktribune.com /news/print.php?id=95793&PHPSESSID=64512ecf6af3d6f8c9... (581 words)

	2005027.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Urozgan (Uruzgan) province - Dehrawut District, Deh Rawud, Tarin Kot, Khas Uruzgan district and in Chori.
		Herat province - Adraskan, Pashtun Zarghun and Farsi districts
		March 21 - Urozgan Province - 115 dead, 1,000 trapped on islands formed by floods, thousands houses destroyed in Deh Rawud District.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/2005027.html (135 words)

	The Tajikistan Update - Maps of Afghanistan
		Map of Administrative Districts of Ghowr Province (AIMS)
		Map of Administrative Districts of Herat Province (AIMS)
		Map of the Administrative Districts in Wardak Province (AIMS)
	www.angelfire.com /sd/tajikistanupdate/afghanmaps.htm (544 words)

	Ghowr Photos at PBase.com
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		Text of report by Iranian radio from Mashhad on 20 December An FM radio transmitter has been installed in the [Afghan central] province of Ghowr.
		Among them, some deprived provinces like Ghowr, Nimroz, Farah, Khost, Bamian, Urozgan and Badakhshan were at the top of the ministry's priority list.
		It [Ghowr] is the first deprived province of Afghanistan where a radio transmitter has been installed.
	www.worldofradio.com /dxld2200.txt (12005 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| 270 Taleban 'killed in fighting'
		A report on Tajik radio says that forces of the anti-Taleban alliance in Afghanistan have killed about 270 Taleban troops in fighting in the north-eastern province of Takhar.
		According to the report - which is unconfirmed - the fighting centred on the settlements of Khojar Ghar and Dash-e Archi as the Taleban assembled forces for an attack on a stretch of the Takhar highway, which connects Takhar and Badakhshan provinces.
		Another report on Iranian radio says fighting is continuing in Ghowr province in the centre of Afghanistan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1422238.stm (124 words)

	Online NewsHour: Rebuilding Afghanistan -- The Humanitarian Situation -- August 2003
		In 2002, the International Committee of the Red Cross distributed emergency food aid to Afghans in Ghowr province who were at risk of starvation.
		This year the situation had improved so greatly that the group distributed seeds instead.
		The scope of the problem varies significantly from region to region, with the maternal mortality rate in Kabul at 400 deaths for every 100,000 births while in the northeastern province Badakshan the rate is 6,500 per 100,000 - the highest rate ever reported globally.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/aug03/humanitarian.html (912 words)

	VOANews.com - Northern Alliance Claims Capture of Key Province
		Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance says its forces have captured the key central province of Ghowr, after heavy overnight fighting.
		Alliance spokesmen announced the victory Thursday in telephone calls to western news agencies in Islamabad, Pakistan.
		Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Oct2001/Oct11/PRT11-66Article.html (180 words)

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