Northern Afghanistan

The North is home to many if not all of Afghanistan’s ethnicities. Hazara, Pashtun, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Aimak and other groups call the North home. Languages of the North Ethnic Composition of Afghanistan In 1996, approximately 40 percent of Afghans were Pashtun, 11.4 of whom are of the Durrani tribal group and 13.8 percent of [...]

Qala i Jangi or ‘Fort of the Soldiers’ built by Abdur Rahman Khan in 1895 based on the Vauban style of fortress. http://countrystudies.us/afghanistan/index.htm Peter R. Blood, ed. Afghanistan: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 2001. PREFACE HISTORY THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD Achaemenid Rule, ca. 550-331 B.C. Alexander and Greek Rule, 330-ca. 150 [...]