Ghilji (redirect from Ghilzai/Khilji)
[ɣəlˈd͡ʒi]; Persian: خیلجی, romanized: Xelji) also spelled Khilji, Khalji, or Ghilzai and Ghilzay (غلزی), are one of the largest Pashtun tribes. Their traditional...
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Qalati Ghilji (redirect from Kalat-i-Ghilzai)
Pashto: قلات), and historically referred to as Qalāti Khaljī or Qalat-i Ghilzai, is a city in southern Afghanistan that serves as the capital of Zabul...
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Amanullah loyalism (redirect from Ghilzai rebellion)
Amanullah assembled an army in Kandahar made up of Durrani, Khattak, Ghilzai and Hazara fighters. However, his attempt to march on Kabul was unsuccessful...
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Mahmud Hotak (redirect from Mahmoud Ghilzai)
Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (Pashto/Dari: شاه محمود هوتک), or Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (شاه محمود غلجي), also known by his epithet, The Conqueror (lived 1697 – April...
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Empire from 1730 to 1735. After Ottoman support had failed to keep the Ghilzai Afghan invaders on the Persian throne, the Ottoman possessions in western...
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Khorasan, where he became a local warlord. His path to power began when the Ghilzai Mir Mahmud Hotaki overthrew the weakened and disintegrated Safavid shah...
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among natives to describe their country. In 1709, Mirwais Hotak, a local Ghilzai tribal leader, successfully rebelled against the Safavids. He defeated...
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525 845 Juwain – Kelat-i-Ghilzai Arachoti Polis – Hortospana 250 230 370 0.4% 2000 230 370 0.4% 231 372 main road Kelat-i-Ghilzai – Kabul Hortospana – Alexandria...
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Battle of Qalat (redirect from Battle of Qalat-i-Ghilzai)
Babur had planned an expedition against Kandahar in 1506, which was governed by Shah Shuja better known as Shah Beg Arghun. Babur had marched towards Shniz...
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Mirwais Hotak (redirect from Mir Vais Ghilzai)
University Press. p. 322. ISBN 0-691-03006-5. Mirwais Khan Hotak, the Hotaki Ghilzai chieftain and nominal mayor of Qandahar was a much more formidable rival...
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Qandahar region and because of the predominant position of Abdali and Ghilzai Pashtuns in Qandahar region during and around 14th century, Tajiks, Hazaras...
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Taliban are ethnic Pashtuns, more specifically those belonging of the Ghilzai confederation. Until his death in 2013, Mullah Mullah Omar was the supreme...
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Toran (Pashtun tribe) (redirect from Toran Ghilzai)
Ghilji Pashtun tribal confederation. The other branch is the Ibrahimzai. "Ghilzai Tribe". Naval Postgraduate School Program for Culture and Conflict Studies...
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a weak ruler. When Soltan Husayn attempted to quell a rebellion by the Ghilzai Afghans in Kandahar, the governor he sent (Gurgin Khan) was killed. Under...
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Afghanized and are believed to be the ancestors of Ghilzai/Ghilji Pashtuns. According to C. E. Bosworth, the Ghilzai, who make up the majority of the Pashtuns...
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battlefield success of Ahmad Shah Massoud. Hezb-i Islami was overwhelmingly Ghilzai Pashtun, and backed by Pakistan president Zia ul-Haq. Its leader, Hekmatyar...
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rebellions, including the Shinwari rebellion, the Kuhistan rebellion, the Ghilzai rebellion, and Mazrak's revolt. During World War II, Amanullah would unsuccessfully...
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even as popular resistance grew. They also ceased paying subsidies to the Ghilzais, who controlled the routes between Kabul and Peshawar. A brigade commanded...
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19 April 1451 (855 AH). Bahlul's grandfather, Malik Bahram Khan Lodi, a Ghilzai tribal chief of the Lodi tribe from Dera Ismail Khan. He later took service...
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since the Afghan Ghilzai Dynasty was having a political problem, thus leaving a vacuum to be filled up. But, Ashraf Shah Ghilzai invaded Kerman and...
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Kandahar and one of the richest and most influential people among the Ghilzais. At first Mirwais had good relations with the Georgians but it began to...
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intelligence funding, and American CIA funding; traditionally strongest in Ghilzai Pashtun tribal regions in the south-east - aimed for a state similar to...
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Economics and Knowledge. Routledge. pp. 217–. ISBN 978-1-134-83668-0. Ghilzai, S.A., and Kanwal, A. (2016) Semiotic Analysis of Evil Eye Beliefs among...
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In 1193, the Nalanda University complex was destroyed by Afghan Khalji–Ghilzai Muslims under Bakhtiyar Khalji; this event is seen as the final milestone...
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Ahmadzai who are a Waziri tribe and the Sulaimankhel Ahmadzai, part of the Ghilzai confederation. However, the Ahmadzai Khans of Khalat were neither of these...
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in the western Himalayas, on a spiritual journey Mahbub Ali – a famous Ghilzai Pashtun horse trader and spy for the British Colonel Creighton – a British...
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Nasher (Kharoti clan) (redirect from Nasher (Ghilzai clan))
The Nasher (or Nashir) (Dari: الناشر, Persian: الناشر) are a noble Afghan family and Khans of the Pashtun Kharoti (Ghilji) tribe. The family is originally...
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12th Pioneers (redirect from 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzai Regiment))
The 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment) were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1838, when they...
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dominating tribe of Swabi is the Yusufzai, followed by the minor Utmankhel, Ghilzai, Tarakai, Jadoon and Khattak. As of the 2023 census, Swabi district has...
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present there. Among these were the Khalaj people which are known today as Ghilzai. The Kabul Shahi dynasties ruled the Kabul Valley and Gandhara from the...
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