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	KUNAR - LoveToKnow Article on KUNAR
		The lower reaches of the Kunar are wide and comparatively shallow, the river meandering in a multitude of channels through a broad and fairly open valley, well cultivated and fertile, with large flourishing villages and a mixed population of Mohmand and other tribes of Afghan origin.
		The Kunar valley (Khoaspes in the classics) is the southern section of that great river system which reaches from the Hindu Kush to the Kabul river near Jalalabad, and which, under the names of Yarkhun, Chitral, Kashkar, andc., is more extensive than the Kabul basin itself.
		The Kunar valley route to Chitral and to Kafiristan is being developed by Afghan engineering.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KU/KUNAR.htm (504 words)

	BAJOUR - LoveToKnow Article on BAJOUR
		An interesting feature in Bajour topography is a mountain spur from the Kunar range, which curving eastwards culminates in the well-known peak of Koh-i-Mor, which is visible from the Peshawar valley.
		broad, and lies at a high level to the east of the Kunar valley, from which it is separated by a continuous line of rugged frontier hills, forming a barrier easily passable at one or two points.
		Long after Buddhism had spread to Chitral, Gilgit, Dir and Swat; whilst Ningrahar was still full of monasteries and temples, and the Peshawar valley was recognized as the seat of Buddhist learning, the Kafirs or Nysaeans held their own in Bajour and in the lower Kunar valley, where Buddhismapparently never prevailed.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAJOUR.htm (522 words)

	KUNAR - Online Information article about KUNAR
		lower reaches of the Kunar are wide and comparatively shallow, the river meandering in a multitude of channels through a broad and fairly open valley, well cultivated and fertile, with large flourishing villages and a mixed See also:
		The Kunar valley (Khoaspes in the See also:
		The Kunar valley route to Chitral and to Kafiristan is being See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KRO_LAP/KUNAR.html (644 words)

	The Fourth Rail
		Kunar Province and the Pech River Valley lie directly across the border from Damadola, Pakistan, where a U.S. Predator strike killed five senior al-Qaeda commanders, including Abu Khattab, al-Qaeda's master bomb maker and head of its chemical weapons program.
		Kunar Province and the Pech River Valley (in southeastern Kunar).
		At the end of March, the Marines of the 3/1 battled against Taliban fighters while patroling in the Shuryak Valley of Kunar Province, killing twenty of the enemy.
	www.billroggio.com /archives/asia/afghanistan (7434 words)

	Recent pictures from the front: Afghanistan - Military Photos
		A machinegunner with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, scours the outlying area for insurgents after firing his weapon on the enemy during a firefight near the remote mountain village of Salar Ban in the Shuryak Valley of Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan.
		Lance Cpl. Anthony Mitchell, an intelligence specialist attached to 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, from Burlington, Colo., aims in on suspected insurgents during a company-wide operation conducted near the remote mountain village of Salar Ban in the Shuryak Valley of Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan.
		Gunnery Sgt. Paul Davis, company gunnery sergeant, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, from Laurens, S.C., aims in on suspected insurgents during a company-wide operation conducted near the remote mountain village of Salar Ban in the Shuryak Valley of Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=77469 (1340 words)

	Richard Strand's Nuristân Site: Indo-Aryan-Speaking Peoples of the Hindu Kush
		The former is spoken by the kal'aSa peoples in side valleys of the Chitral (Kunar) River in southern Chitral District of Pâkistân.
		These stand perhaps as the last representatives of an earlier dialect group that may have extended from the confluence of the Pech and Kunar Rivers up into the Tregâm Valley in Pech and up to Niagâm in the Kunar Valley.
		On the east side of the Kunar are the dialects of Upper and Lower Dara-e Nur, and degan'o, spoken by the deg'an people in pockets on the lower Kunar River.
	users.sedona.net /~strand/IndoAryan/IndoAryas.html (1896 words)

	Richard Strand's Nuristân Site: Kâmviri Lexicon
		a valley on the east side of the Kunar River: azergal.
		the area of the Kunar and tributary valleys inhabited by the Gawar people.
		a Chitrali-owned Afghan settlement on the Kunar: jalâla.
	users.sedona.net /~strand/Nuristani/Kamkata/Kom/KomLanguage/Lexicon/LocPlaces.html (1511 words)

	Flash Floods Kill 20 People In Kunar Province Afghanistan
		The major offensive in eastern Kunar province, near the border with Pakistan, is the biggest yet against those believed responsible for the twin attacks on 28 June, the deadliest blow to American forces in Afghanistan since ousting the Taliban in 2001.
		Hundreds of American marines and Afghan special forces have trekked into remote Afghan mountains to retake a valley controlled by rebels suspected of ambushing a team of US commandos and shooting down a special forces helicopter.
		Aljazeera - US Afghanistan Offensive in Kunar News
	www.atsnn.com /story/169789.html (473 words)

	Marine Corps Moms: 3/3 Marines are coming home, leaving the Kunar Province "one step closer to freedom"
		A ceremony which was attended by nearly 300 civic and religious leaders from across the Kunar province was the first step in the process of repatriation for Najmuddin who explained his reasons for turning himself over to the Marines through an interpreter.
		The governor of Kunar, Asadollah Wafa, said the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan hopes the program will put an end to local insurgencies and further drive a wedge between Afghans and the foreign-national terrorists who have been operating in Afghanistan.
		Bellman, who spoke with Najmuddin, said he expressed happiness with many of the good things he saw the Marines doing in the Pech Valley and that he knew his area was improving because of the Afghan and Coalition forces.
	marinecorpsmoms.com /archives/2005/06/33_marines_are.html (1192 words)

	Cash fuels Afghan rebellion - World News - MSNBC.com
		Weapons caches have been hidden and the local villagers are being paid to fight,” he said, before a joint operation with U.S. Marines into Korengal Valley, a militant stronghold in remote mountains in Kunar.
		In Kunar, nearly 1,000 villagers have been recruited, trained and armed in the past month to provide security.
		Peter Munster, a U.S. Army commander in Kunar.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8949494 (990 words)

	Rumors of Bin Laden’s Lair
		But to his neighbors in this corner of Afghanistan’s remote Kunar province, the gangling, tobacco-chewing old man is one of the most respected figures in the Pech River valley.
		Kunar’s population is, likewise, congenial to bin Laden.
		At the height of the war against the Soviets in the 1980s, the CIA effectively ceded Kunar to the Arab volunteers who were pouring in to join the mujahedin.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4586.htm (1703 words)

	Marine Corps Moms: 3/3 Marines are coming home, leaving the Kunar Province "one step closer to freedom"
		A ceremony which was attended by nearly 300 civic and religious leaders from across the Kunar province was the first step in the process of repatriation for Najmuddin who explained his reasons for turning himself over to the Marines through an interpreter.
		The governor of Kunar, Asadollah Wafa, said the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan hopes the program will put an end to local insurgencies and further drive a wedge between Afghans and the foreign-national terrorists who have been operating in Afghanistan.
		The Kunar province has undergone many changes in the 7 months India Company has been on the ground here.
	marinecorpsmoms.com /archives/2005/06/33_marines_are.html (1110 words)

	Mythology's Myth*ing Links = Eurasia / Central Asia: Afghanistan
		The city dominates the entrances to the Laghman and Kunar valleys and is a leading trading center with India and Pakistan.
		Her focus is on archaeological sites (e.g., the Bamian Valley [center of commerce and the Buddhist religion by 500 AD]; Ghazni [a city on the ancient road to Kabul, built in the 7th century AD]; Kabul; and the Khyber Pass); museums; general culture; and ancient history.
		"An Afgan man cuts some wood in front of a burnt-out Soviet army APC, in the village of Malaspa, Panjshir Valley, 15 September 2001.
	www.mythinglinks.org /eurasia~Afghanistan.html (7040 words)

	The PD Encyclopedia
		into the Kunar valley, leaving Ningrahar and Jalalabad to the
		valley by the Chahardar pass across the Hindu Kush.
		of the Ghorband valley to Charikar, and thence southwards to
	bestsellers.eotalk.com /page-394.php (7040 words)

	Ancient Kamboj Rashtra - Kamboj Society
		Thus we see that according to Dr Mukerjee, roughly the Kabul valley, Begram, Lamghan valley, Kunar valley, Kohistan, Kaffirstan, Swat valley, Hazara and Abhisara (SE Kashmir) were included in the Kamboja Mahajanapada.(roughly the land of the Paropanisadaen satrapy of the Greeks).
		It simply places it in the Uttarapatha, and clearly distinguishes it from the land of the Tukharas, apparantly lying further to the north).
		It is generally associated with Gandhara in ancient literature and in the Edicts of Ashoka.
	www.kambojsociety.com /ancient_2.asp (7040 words)

	FAO Representation in Afghanistan
		Eucalyptus and fast-growing poplar trees are grown in the lower valleys in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Khost provinces.
		The crop has flourished, however, since the overthrow of that regime and is spreading along the Kunar valley and in Laghman province - with the assistance of professional poppy growers from Nangarhar province.
		Millet is an important summer grain crop in the remoter and higher valleys of Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman provinces.
	www.fao.org /world/afghanistan/prof_e_crops_en.htm (727 words)

	Alexander the Great - Series Overview
		Winter: Hephaistion goes to the Indus via the Khyber: Alexander marches up the Kunar Valley into Swat; visits Nysa; attacks Massaga; winter campaign in Swat Valley.
		Summer/early autumn: six months at Begram in the Kabul Valley.
		Late spring: Crossing of Hindu Kush via Bamian.
	www.mpt.org /programsinterests/mpt/alexander/overview/date_crusade.html (727 words)

	BAJOUR - LoveToKnow Article on BAJOUR
		An interesting feature in Bajour topography is a mountain spur from the Kunar range, which curving eastwards culminates in the well-known peak of Koh-i-Mor, which is visible from the Peshawar valley.
		The drainage of Bajour flows eastwards, starting from the eastern slopes of the dividing ridge which overlooks the Kunar and terminating in the Panjkora river, so that the district lies on a slope tilting gradually downwards from the Kunar ridge to the Panjkora.
		To the south of Bajour is the wild mountain district of the Mohmands, a Pathan race.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAJOUR.htm (522 words)

	BAJOUR, or BAJAUR - Online Information article about BAJOUR, or BAJAUR
		Gilgit, Dir and Swat; whilst Ningrahar was still full of monasteries and temples, and the Peshawar valley was recognized as the seat of Buddhist learning, the Kafirs or Nysaeans held their own in Bajour and in the lower Kunar valley, where Buddhism apparently never prevailed.
		Dir; and it is over this watershed and through the valley of Dir that the new road from Malakand and the See also:
		MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BAJOUR_or_BAJAUR.html (816 words)

	FAO Representation in Afghanistan
		Eucalyptus and fast-growing poplar trees are grown in the lower valleys in Nangarhar, Kunar, Laghman and Khost provinces.
		The crop has flourished, however, since the overthrow of that regime and is spreading along the Kunar valley and in Laghman province- with the assistance of professional poppy growers from Nangarhar province.
		In the mid-1990s there were attempts to introduce Japanese persimmon and other exotic fruits such as lychees and kiwi fruit on a trial basis in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces.
	www.fao.org /world/afghanistan/prof_e_crops_en.htm (816 words)

	Location Index - P
		Paprok, Konar (Kunar; Konarh; Konarha; Nuristan) Province, Afghanistan
		Passiria valley (Passei valley), Bolzano Province (South Tyrol), Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
		Panjsher (Panjshir) Valley, Hessa-e-Say District, Parvan (Parwan) Province, Afghanistan
	www.mindat.org /locindex-P0.html (816 words)

	Richard Strand's Nuristân Site: Iranian-Speaking Peoples of the Hindu Kush
		Munji— idGa, the language of the small Munji population in the upper Munjân Valley; The idGa dialect is spoken by Munji émigrés in Upper Chitral.
		Ikâmi—Sangleci, the language spoken around the village of Ikâm on the Âb-e Panj (upper Oxus) and in Zêbâk and the neighboring Sanglec Valley to the south.
		It is typical of these peoples to claim that they are paxt'un but not afG'ân, as I myself have verified for MïwâNi tribesmen in upper Kunar.
	users.sedona.net /~strand/Iranian/Iranians.html (816 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code: SMS
		Chitral frontier, 60 miles up the Kunar River from Gawar-Bati, on the west side, Darrai Mazar Valley.
		Shumast village has two languages; this Dardic Kunar language, and a Northeast Pashayi dialect.
		Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 15%.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=SMS (816 words)

	Mansehra district
		The terrain of the district is a mixture of mountains, valleys, plains, and lakes.
		Mansehra District is a district in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan that contains the town of Mansehra, and the Kaghan valley area, an adventure-tourism destination.
		The largest river is the Kunhar river also known as the Kunar (not to be confused with the Kunar river of the Chitral district).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Mansehra-district.htm (816 words)

	KHURJA - LoveToKnow Article on KHURJA
		The old road to India left the Kabul River near its junction with the Kunar, and crossed the great divide between the Kunar valley ~nd Bajour; then it turned southwards to the plains.
		The Khyber has been adopted by the British as the main road to Kabul, but its difficulties (before they were overcome by British engineers) were such that it was never so regarded by former rulers of India.
		During the first Afghan War the Khyber was the scene of many skirmishes with the Afridis and some disasters to the British troops.
	8.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KH/KHURJA.htm (2426 words)

	KUNAR - LoveToKnow Article on KUNAR
		From 20 to 30 miles up the river on its left bank, under the Bajour hills, are thick clusters of villages, amongst which are the ancient towns of Kunar and Pashat.
		This is probably due to the late occupation of the valley by KafIrs, who spread eastwards into Bajour within comparatively recent historical times, and who still adhere to their fastnesses in the Kashmund hills.
		There are no apparent relics of Buddhism in the Kunar, such as are common about Jalalabad or Chitral, or throughout Swat and Dir.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KU/KUNAR.htm (504 words)

	Gandara
		Alexander divided his army: his friend Hephaestion led an army along the Cophen (through the Khyber pass) and reached the Indus; Alexander took a more northerly route, along the rivers Kunar and Swat, where his men killed almost every Gandarian they met in a campaign that was little short of genocide.
		The city was strategically situated: it controlled the roads to the Etymandrus valley, to the Cophen valley and to the passes leading to Bactria.
		In 329-327, Alexander was fighting in Bactria and Sogdia; in 326, however, he was back in Gandara, where he met with Indian representatives who invited the Macedonian king to come to the Punjab.
	www.livius.org /ga-gh/gandara/gandara.html (504 words)

	Languages Of Afghanistan
		GAWAR-BATI 8,000 in Afghanistan; 8 or 9 villages in the Kunar Valley.
		PASHAYI 1% of the population in Afghanistan (1982) From Gulbahar across Kapisa and Laghman provinces to Nuristan on the Alingar River, especially the Alisheng Valley and valleys north of Sarobi.
		Dari is taught in schools; radio Afghanistan broadcasts are promoting a standardized pronunciation of the literary language which is based on the old dictional tradition of the country, with its archaic phonetic characteristics.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/languages.html (1078 words)

	Languages Of Afghanistan
		GAWAR-BATI 8,000 in Afghanistan; 8 or 9 villages in the Kunar Valley.
		PASHAYI 1% of the population in Afghanistan (1982) From Gulbahar across Kapisa and Laghman provinces to Nuristan on the Alingar River, especially the Alisheng Valley and valleys north of Sarobi.
		Dari is taught in schools; radio Afghanistan broadcasts are promoting a standardized pronunciation of the literary language which is based on the old dictional tradition of the country, with its archaic phonetic characteristics.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/languages.html (1078 words)

	AFGHAN FIGHTING (L)
		The Panjshir Valley is the headquarters of commander Ahmad Shah Massood who has used it as a base from which to launch attacks on the Taleban's control of Afghanistan.
		At the end of July the Taleban launched a major offensive against the opposition stronghold in the Panjshir Valley, 90-kilometers north of the capital.
		The opposition said Monday its forces had launched attacks on Taleban positions in Kunar, Laghman, and Nangarhar provinces.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/1999/08/990817-afghan2.htm (326 words)

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