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	SEISTAN, or SISTAN (SEJISTAN) - Online Information article about SEISTAN, or SISTAN (SEJISTAN)
		The territory comprehended in it is spoken of as Seistan by the dwellers on the right bank of the Helmund, in contradistinction to their own lands, At the same time it could only be but a fractional partas indeed the whole country under consideration could only beof the Seistan of Persian history.
		The most remarkable geographical feature of Seistan generally, in the modern acceptation of the term, is the Hamun, which stretches far and wide on the north, west and south, but is for a great part of the year dry or a mere swamp.
		The inhabitants of Seistan are mainly composed of Kaianis, descendants of the ancient rulers of the land; Sarbandis and Shahrakis, tribes supposed to have consisted originally of immigrants from western Persia; and Baluchis of the Nharui and Sanjurani (Toki) clans.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SEISTAN_or_SISTAN_SEJISTAN_.html (1918 words)

	Seistan Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the Revolution in Russia, the Malleson Mission was sent to Trans-Caspia and the Seistan Force became the Lines of Communication for the Mission from September 1918 under the orders of the 4th (Quetta) Division.
		With the withdrawal of the force from Trans-Caspia, the troops in Persia were withdrawn and the last elements left in November 1920.
		In conjunction with the Russians a small force was maintained in Eastern Persia to ensure the tranquillity of this region and frustrate the activity of German agents.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seistan_Force (704 words)

	SEISTAN - LoveToKnow Article on SEISTAN
		Grazing and fodder are not wanting, and besides the reeds peculiar to Seistan there are two grasses which merit noticethat called bannu, with which the bed of the Hamun abounds on the south and the taller and less salt kirta on the higher ground.
		A noteworthy feature of the Seistan lagoon is that in times of excessive flood it overspreads a vast area of country, both to the north and south, shutting off the capital of Seistan (Nusretabad) from surrounding districts, and spreading through a channel southwards, known as Shelag, to another great depression, called the Gaud-i-Zirreh.
		T~iey are diverted by means of a large band or dam, known indifferently as the Amir~s; the Seistan or the Kuhak band It is constructed of horizontally laid tamarisk branches, earth and perpendicular stakes, and protected from damage by a fort on the left and a tower on the right bank of the river.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEISTAN.htm (1976 words)

	Afghanistan (1911 Encyclopedia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British outposts extended to Saighan, in the Oxus basin, and to Mullah Khan, in the plain of Seistan.
		The winter was severe, the troops demoralised, the march a mass of confusion and massacre, and the force was finally overwhelmed in the Jagdalak pass between Kabul and Jalalabad.
		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.theezine.net /a/afghanistan-1911-encyclopedia-.html (7206 words)

	Afghanistan - Introduction. Surface Geography.
		This territory corresponds fairly to the aggregate of the ancient provinces of Aria (Heart), Drangiana (Seistan), the region of the Paropamisadoe (Kabul), and Arachosia (Kandahar), with Gandaritis (Peshawar and Yuzufzai).
		Under the former head come the valleys of the Yuzufzai clan north of Peshawar, the Momads, Afridis, Vaziris, andc., adjoining that district on the west and south-west, the high-lying valleys of Chitral or Kashkar, and of the independent Pagans or Kafirs, among the loftier spurs of Hindu Kush.
		The Afghans themselves make a broad distinction between Kabul, meaning thereby the whole basin of the Kabul river, and the rest of their country, excluding the former from the large and vague term KHORASAN, under which they consider the rest to be comprehended.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFG/afghanistan-01.html (1122 words)

	Afghanistan - History
		Alexander’s march led him to Artacoana (Haart?), the capital of Aria, and thence to the country of the Zarangoe (Seistan), to that of the Euergetoe, upon the Etymander (Helmand river), to Arachasis, thence to the Indians dwelling among snows in a barren country probably the highlands between Ghazni and Kabul.
		The malignity of Kamran, the worthless son of Mahmud, succeeded in making the king jealous of his minister; and with matchless treachery, ingratitude, and cruelty, the latter was first blinded, and afterwards murdered with prolonged torture, the brutal Kamran striking the first blow.
		A cavalry force of Afghans was sent to join Sher Singh against the British, and was present at the battle of Gujerat (21st Feb. 1849).
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFG/afghanistan-20.html (3201 words)

	Reginald Dyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was in command of the 8th (Jullundur) Brigade at time of the massacre.
		During World War I (1914-18) he commanded the Seistan Force, for which he was mentioned in despatches.
		In 1919, a month after the Amritsar incident, he was heralded as the "Saviour of Thal " in the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reginald_Dyer (349 words)

	Contemporary Afghanistan
		An Afghan cavalry force was sent to join Sher Singh against the British, and was present at the battle of Gujrat in February 1849.
		During the winter of 1879-80, the British force at the capital was for a time in no little danger, owing to a general tribal rising, which was not suppressed without severe fighting.
		In 1949, a Pakistani air force strike on the tribal area led to a village on the Afghan side of the border being bombed.
	www.afghanhindufederation.com /Afghanistan.html (8076 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		From March 1916 the force became the '''Seistan Force''' under the commander-in-chief in British India India.
		Following the Russian Revolution Revolution in Russia, the Malleson Mission was sent to Trans-Caspia and the Seistan Force became the Lines of Communication for the Mission from September 1918 under the orders of the 4th (Quetta) Division.
		Raids on the lines of communication of the force were made by certain tribes of Persian Baluchistan, notably the Damani s of Sarhad.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Seistan_Force.html (776 words)

	GIRISHK - LoveToKnow Article on GIRISHK
		The fort, which is garrisoned from Kandahar and is the residence of the governor of the district (Pusht-i-Rud), has little military value.
		It commands the fords of the Helmund and the road to Seistan, from which it is about 190 m.
		Girishk was occupied by the British during the first Afghan War; and a small garrison of sepoys under a native officer, successfully withstood a siege of nine months by an overwhelming Afghan force.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GI/GIRISHK.htm (151 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The force consisted of two infantry divisions, of which the first, commanded by Major-General Sir Willoughby Cotton, contained three brigades, commanded respectively by Colonels Sale, Nott, and Dennis, of whom the two former were to attain high distinction within the borders of Afghanistan.
		He was overruled, and before daybreak of the 23d a force under his command, consisting of five companies of the 44th, twelve companies of native infantry, some cavalry, and one horse-artillery gun, was in position on the north-eastern extremity of the ridge overhanging the village.
		Yet Eyre reckons as the chief reason why all the British force that had gone out to battle was not destroyed, the fact that a leading Afghan chief forced his men to spare the fugitives, and ultimately halted and withdrew his people when the opportunity for wholesale slaughter lay open to them.
	www.knowledgerush.com /pg/etext05/7afgh10.txt (17860 words)

	Windows on Asia
		In the Western part of Afghanistan, the princes of Herat and Seistan converted to Islam and their territories were ruled by Arab governors sent by the new Umayyad dynasty.
		It was not until the 9th and 10th centuries that the eastern area of Afghanistan became firmly Islamic with the conquest by Yaqub ibn Layth Saffari, founder of the local Saffarid dynasty in the Seistan, who conquered the rest of the country in the name of Islam.
		This was followed in 900A.D. with the conquest of Balkh in Northern Afghanistan by the Islamic dynasty of the Samanids who ruled from Bokhara, and the conquest of Ghazni by a Turkish slave general.
	www.isp.msu.edu /asianstudies/wbwoa/centralasia/Afghanistan/religion.html (5146 words)

	MLI Chapter 9
		In an assault made by a detachment of this force upon the Arab stronghold of Beni-Boo-Ali the attackers were heavily defeated and practically annihilated so that, in order to avenge this serious reverse, it became necessary, in 1821, to despatch a second and stronger force with the same objective.
		Following the disastrous defeat of a Brigade of the latter force at Maiwand, on 27th July 1880, the remainder were closely besieged in the citadel of Kandahar until relieved by General Roberts, whose famous march from Kabul to Kandahar is military history, and by a second force hastily sent forward from Quetta.
		While one force, in which served the 116th Mahrattas (4th Battalion) recently arrived from India, was engaged in driving the enemy from the hilly Jebel Hamrin on the eastern flank of the line of advance, the main force proceeded up-river to attack the Turkish positions at Sharqat.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /mli_chapter_9.htm (5403 words)

	Net-weather forum -> Guide to... Wind
		The wind originates over the dry interior plateau, and its temperatur and desiccating effects are increased by adiabatic heating during its decent, as with a fohn wind.
		Like the seistan, it is associated with the summer monsoon low over northern India.
		Force 6 - Strong Breeze - Large branches in motion, whistling in telephone wires, difficult to use umbrellas.
	www.net-weather.co.uk /forum/index.php?showtopic=1519 (2498 words)

	[lbo-talk] Re-engineering Balochistan 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The cumulative force of these considerations, however, is that the Islamabad now places the highest priority on the 'pacification' of Balochistan.
		Additional commitments in Balochistan would demand a dramatic redrafting of national strategies, and it appears that the military regime has not, in fact, visualized the deployments that would be required in a rapidly worsening internal security scenario in Balochistan.
		Pakistan appears, currently, to be preparing grounds to justify extreme use of force in the province, planting reports that Osama bin Laden may be in Balochistan and that some Al Qaeda leaders, who were discovered in Iran, had escaped to that country through Balochistan.
	mailman.lbo-talk.org /pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20041227/000051.html (1462 words)

	Ismailis of Afghanistan - By Mumtaz Ali Tajjdin - Historical Review
		A treaty was concluded with Ranjit Singh, under which he obtained from Shah Shuja the formal cession of all the territory he had acquired from the Afghans, and agreed to cooperate cordially with the expedition about to be dispatched to Kabul to dethrone Dost Muhammad.
		Simultaneously, a force under General Roberts marched by the Kurram route, and after routing an Afghan army of Charasia, he took possession of Kabul in October, 1879.
		Their decision to withdraw, taken in 1986 and given written form in the Geneva Accords of April 14, 1988, was as much a consequence of internal factors within the Soviet Union as of military defeat.
	ismaili.net /Source/mumtaz/behsud/histreview.html (5645 words)

	AFGHANISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The highlands which shut off the Turkestan provinces from Southern Afghanistan have afforded the best opportunities for geological investigation, and as might be expected from their geographical position, the general result of the examination of exposed sections leads to the identification of geoloeical affinity with Himalayan, Indian and Persian regions.
		It was during this period that the forces which finally raised the country above the level of the sea began to take effect.
		The Pliocene consists entirely of freshwater and terrestrial deposits, which were probably laid down at the foot of the rising hills and on the floors of the intervening valleys.
	simplestartpage.com /2301_AFGHANISTAN.HTML (15562 words)

	Unidata - 20030627: HDS feed to/from seistan (cont.)
		Can you help us resolve this problem?" >It would be interesting to also force an I1 connection to LSU and repeat >the test.
		zero.unidata.ucar.edu 0% 13 13 34 34 36 57 The major difference in routes that I notice is the route from zero to seistan goes through howe-e241a-4006-dsw-1.g2.lsu.edu, but the route from seistan to zero goes through lsubr1-118-6509-dsw-1.g2.lsu.edu.
		The problem most likely exists between seistan and Jackson State, but we can't verify this because they are not reporting stats AND we do not have current contact information for them.
	www.unidata.ucar.edu /content/support/help/MailArchives/idd/msg02970.html (1398 words)

	THE 4 KINGDOMS FLOWING OUT OF BABYLON MAP OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
		Thus it was by diplomacy as well as force of arms that he established the largest empire known until his time.
		But in pitched battle the striking force was the cavalry, and the core of the army, should the issue still remain undecided after the cavalry charge, was the infantry phalanx, 9,000 strong, armed with 13-foot spears and shields, and the 3,000 men of the royal battalions, the hypaspists.
		He planned to lead part of his forces back by land, while the rest in perhaps 100 to 150 ships under the command of Nearchus, a Cretan with naval experience, made a voyage of exploration along the Persian Gulf.
	www.chn-net.com /teaching/endtimes/maps_ref.html (9366 words)

	Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck
		Ptolemy II was forced to cede Ionia, Cilicia, and Aegean islands to Antiochus II in 255 BC.
		They were no longer forced to provide winter quarters for Roman legions, but they had to give a fourth part of their harvest every other year to the Roman soldiers.
		While the Macedonian troops were in winter quarters, the forces of Cleomenes ravaged the country around Argos; but with their Egyptian subsidy withdrawn, Sparta was defeated at Sellasia by greater numbers and taken for the first time in its history.
	www.san.beck.org /EC23-Hellenistic.html (20403 words)

	[No title]
		Dry and warm in summer and very cold in the winter.
		Seistan-A very strong summer wind from the North in Eastern Iran, known as "The wind of 120 days" as it lasts about four months.
		Can reach a hurricane force and it also carries dust.
	www.geocities.com /westlife5/wind.html (901 words)

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		What is wrong with this picture is the domination of the police force by non-Baluchs.
		Such police force is strategically deployed to violently pursue the development agenda that also is aimed at benefiting non-Baluchs.
		In addition to forming a rear guard of Afghanistan and Seistan, the Baluch resistance is widely believed to be benefiting from the oil riches of the gulf state of Oman, where the Baluch population of Pakistani origin outnumbers the native Omanese.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=9418198&postID=110290567469615383 (1497 words)

	4th (Quetta) Division in 1914-1918
		A force under command of 2nd Quetta Brigade was maintained in western Baluchistan to suppress arms traffic to the frontier.
		In July 1915 the force was expanded and titled the East Persia Cordon.
		In March 1916 it was renamed the Seistan Force.
	www.1914-1918.net /Quetta_Div.htm (648 words)

	SASIGUPTA AND THE POISONING OF ALEXANDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the drama Abhayadatta attempts to poison Chandragupta but the plot is detected and he is forced to drink the draught.
		On the other hand if the reluctance of the soldiers and officers was to confront the Prasii it appears sensible enough as the latter were a formidable force to reckon with.
		This was a fairly strong force comprising three phalanx battalions, a large number of elderly troops, infantry and cavalry and the whole of the elephant corps.
	www.1stmuse.com /frames/sasigupta.html (4336 words)

	Official Web Site of Rahim Yar Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the Rai dynasty dominions were vast extending form Kashmir and Kanauj to Kandhar and Seistan and on the west to Mekran and a part of Debal, while on the south to Surat.
		The first treaty between Bahawalpur and the British government was affected in 1833 which remained in force till the 14th August, 1947 when the state acceded to Pakistan.
		Ranjit Singh sent a large force under Sham Singh Atariwala to Kahror to invade the state on any pretext.
	www.rahimyarkhan.gov.pk /HISTORY_next.htm (1694 words)

	Frye. Heritage of Persia
		It would be natural to suppose that relatives or close friends of Ardashir were appointed to offices in the new empire, especially in the important posts in eastern Iran, but we do not know the relationship of these rulers to the king of kings.
		The next two kings of Seistan and Kirman are also both called Ardashir, the latter, according to Tabari, being a son of the king of kings.
		One may further assume that these 'kingdoms' were won by force of arms, and hence were free to be assigned to favourites, while rulers who submitted to the Sasanian monarch probably retained their principalities in a feudal relationship.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/med/fryeheri.html (10495 words)

	The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Macnaghten engaged himself in a welter of internal and external intrigue, his mood swinging from singular complacency to a disquietude that sometimes approached despondency.
		Cannon were mounted on the Balla Hissar to overawe the city, the concentration of the troops in the fortress was under consideration, and men were talking of preparing for a siege.
		Burnes wrote to the Envoy—he was a soldier, but he was also a 'political,' and political employ seemed often in Afghanistan to deteriorate the attribute of soldierhood—that there was no alternative for the force but to fall back on Cabul, and entreated Macnaghten to order immediate concentration of all the troops.
	www.blackmask.com /books124c/7afgh.htm (18108 words)

	AN ALTAR OF ALEXANDER NOW STANDING AT DELHI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is surely not the full story as the holiness of Seistan is well recorded in the Iranian tradition, in particular, the Shahnama.
		If Seistan and Bactria were within the Maurya empire it is not unnatural to expect that the Indo-Greek rulers of Bactria and Seistan were somehow related to the Mauryas.
		The great king of Babylon was an easterner and it is likely that the dream is in some way related to the defoliation of the Seistan area which was once a granary of Iran.
	www.geocities.com /ranajitda/askpilar.html (5341 words)

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