Afghan cameleers in Australia, also known as "Afghans" (Pashto: افغانان) or "Ghans" (Pashto: غانز), were camel drivers who worked in Outback Australia...
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About Australia > Australian Stories > Afghan cameleers in Australia Archived 5 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 8 May 2014. "Camel Breeding"...
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years in detention and committing suicide in a Brisbane hotel. A 2020 documentary, The Afghan Cameleers in Australia, directed by Afghan/Australian filmmaker...
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Sallay Mahomet (category Camel drivers)
world. His name is displayed on the Cameleers Memorial in Alice Springs. Afghan cameleers in Australia Islam in Australia "Sallay Mahomet 1911 - 1983 BillionGraves...
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The Afghan film festival in Australia was established in 2019 as an annual showcase of Afghan cinema in Australia. It takes place in Canberra and is jointly...
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Centre". Retrieved 9 December 2023. australia.gov.au > About Australia > Australian Stories > Afghan cameleers in Australia Archived 5 August 2016 at the Wayback...
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sometimes used for settlements of Afghan cameleers in Australia Ghans, a name sometimes used for Afghan cameleers in Australia Emiliano Ghan (born 1995) Uruguayan...
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Central Adelaide Mosque (redirect from Afghan Chapel, Adelaide)
Islam portal List of mosques in Oceania Afghan (Australia) (about the cameleers) "The Afghan camelmen". South Australian History: Flinders Ranges Research...
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Hassan Musa Khan (category Camel drivers)
Musakhan, or Hassan Musakhan, was one of the early so-called "Afghan" cameleers in Australia. Born in Karachi, a member of the Tarin tribe of Pashtuns. he was...
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South Australia. The Great Mosque of Adelaide was built in 1888 by the descendants of the Afghan cameleers. The Broken Hill Mosque at North camel camp...
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Dromedary (redirect from Camel, Arvana Dromedary)
Canarian camel: a traditional dromedary population". Diversity. 2 (4): 561–71. doi:10.3390/d2040561. ISSN 1424-2818. "Afghan Cameleers in Australia". Australian...
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Faiz Mahomet (category Afghan emigrants to Australia)
– 1910), was an Afghan cameleer who migrated to Australia in 1870. He worked in South Australia and Western Australia, including in partnership with...
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Australia's first gurdwara. Australia portal Punjab portal Sikhism in Australia Australian Sikh Heritage Trail Man Mohan Singh "Afghan" cameleers in Australia...
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were around 2,000 cameleers and 4,000 camels operating across Australia. Small groups of cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-year intervals...
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using horses, and "Afghan" cameleers. Tom Knowles, after noticing one of the "Afghan" cameleers, Noor(e) Mahomet, washing his feet in one of the rock holes...
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Deserts in China and Mongolia. Animals portal Afghan cameleers in Australia Australian feral camel Camel howdah Camel milk Camel racing Camel train (caravan)...
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British India, and some even from Afghanistan and Egypt and Turkey. Majority of cameleers, including Indian cameleers, were Muslims with a sizeable minority...
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Outback (redirect from Outback Australia)
1038/nature20125. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 27806378. S2CID 4470503. "Afghan cameleers in Australia". australia.gov.au. 15 August 2014. Archived from the original on...
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1856. p. 3. Retrieved 29 December 2019 – via Trove. "Afghan cameleers in Australia". australia.gov.au. 15 August 2014. Archived from the original on...
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Dervish Bejah (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
of South Australia. Retrieved 10 December 2022. Photographs of Dervish in the State Library of South Australia "Afghan Cameleers of Australia". Geni....
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explorers - Australia's Culture Portal". Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2013. "Afghan cameleers in Australia". australia.gov...
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based on the U.S. Camel Corps titled Hawmps! Cariboo camels Camel cavalry Douglas the camel Military animal Afghan cameleers in Australia Carroll, Charles...
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Dost Mahomet (category Camel drivers)
1873 – 1909), sometimes spelt Dost Mohammad, was a Baloch "Afghan" cameleer in Australia. He used his animals to transport goods between the ports and...
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Look up Afghan or Afghans in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Afghan or Afgan may refer to: Afghans, historically refers to the Pashtun people. It is...
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"Afghan cameleers in Australia". Stories of Australia. Archived from the original on 5 August 2016. Parkes, Rebecca (2009). "Traces of the cameleers:...
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Turkish migrants in Australia date back to 1860s to 1900 period when small groups of mainly Muslim cameleers were shipped in and out of Australia at three-year...
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Gool Mahomet (category Afghan emigrants to Australia)
of the Australian Afghan community." Afghan cameleers in Australia Islam in Australia Jones, Philip, 1955- (2007). Australia's Muslim cameleers : pioneers...
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services. The town was home to Australia's first mosque, which was made of mud brick and built by the Afghan cameleers employed at Marree's inception...
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recorded in the 1800s when Afghan migrants first arrived as camel riders in Australia. An anti-Afghan league was even formed in 1886. Afghan refugees...
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Jane Winifred Steger (category All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English)
Zatoon was an Australian author and pioneer of South Australia who spent much of her life involved with the Afghan cameleers in Australia through her relationships...
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