The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern...
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Kush generally refers to a pure or hybrid Cannabis indica strain. Pure C. indica strains include Afghan Kush, Hindu Kush, Green Kush, and Purple Kush...
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in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by the English travel writer Eric Newby. It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush, around...
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Hindu Kush earthquake may refer to these earthquakes in the Hindu Kush mountains: 1983 Hindu Kush earthquake 1991 Hindu Kush earthquake 2002 Hindu Kush...
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The Himalayan range is bordered on the northwest by the Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic...
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Hebrew Bible Kush (mountain), a mountain near Kalat, Pakistan Balochistan Kush (satrapy), a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire Hindu Kush, a mountain range...
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located below the Third Pole, delineated by the Himalayas in the north, the Hindu Kush in the west, and the Indo-Burman Ranges in the east. The neighboring geographical...
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Hinduism in Afghanistan (redirect from Afghan Hindu)
305 BCE, the Seleucid Empire lost control of the territory south of the Hindu Kush to the Indian Emperor "Sandrocottus" as a result of the Seleucid-Mauryan...
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range) but some peaks above 7,000 m are included in the Himalayan and Hindu Kush ranges. Moreover, Pakistan is home to over 7,000 glaciers, more than anywhere...
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resembling a diamond which is delineated by the Himalayas on the north, the Hindu Kush in the west, and the Arakanese in the east, and which extends southward...
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(with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in the Karakoram, Hindu Kush and neighbouring ranges. The list includes 4 of the 14 8000m summits,...
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Mad honey (section In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region)
where it is used as a traditional medicine and recreational drug. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan range, it is produced by Himalayan giant honey bees (Apis laboriosa)...
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Nuristanis (category Hindu Kush)
borderline vacant location. Noted linguist Richard Strand, an authority on Hindu Kush languages, observed the following about pre-Islamic Nuristani religion:...
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with plains in the north and the southwest, which are separated by the Hindu Kush mountain range. Kabul is the country's largest city and serves as its...
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Sogdia and southwards through Afghanistan, but they never went beyond the Hindu-Kush, which was occupied by the Alchon Huns, previously mistakenly regarded...
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the Pamirs and Kongur Tagh, just political boundaries. Note 2: Part of Hindu Kush-Himalayas region All of the Asian ranges above have been formed in part...
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contains several mountain ranges; its highest point is Noshaq in the Hindu Kush at 7,492 metres (24,580 ft), and its lowest point is the Lut Desert to...
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Hindu Kush. Gingko Library. p. 120. ISBN 9781909942851. Zoller, Claus Peter (2018). ""Pagan Christmas: Winter feast of the Kalasha of the Hindu Kush"...
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The Hindu Kush alpine meadow ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1005) covers a portion of the Hindu Kush Mountain Range in northern Afghanistan. Most of the terrain...
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The October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck South Asia on 26 October 2015, at 13:39 AFT (14:09 PKT; 14:39 IST; 09:09...
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(Antiochus) crossed the Caucasus (the Caucasus Indicus or Paropamisus: mod. Hindú Kúsh) and descended into India; renewed his friendship with Sophagasenus the...
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660 ft)) Hindu Kush; highest peak is Tirich Mir (7,708 metres (25,289 ft)). Hindu Raj in northern Pakistan, part of the eastern Hindu Kush, highest peak...
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2015 Hindu Kush earthquake may refer to: December 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake October 2015 Hindu Kush earthquake Hindu Kush earthquake (disambiguation)...
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Cannabis strain (redirect from Hindu Kush (Cannabis))
Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Strains Acapulco Gold Charlotte's web Kush Malawi Gold Sour Diesel Related Hemp Hemp beer Hemp milk Hemp oil Hemp protein...
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"Mountains of Qaes/Kasi"), are a north–south extension of the southern Hindu Kush mountain system in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They rise to form the eastern...
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The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush is a book written by Sir George Scott Robertson, illustrated by Arthur David McCormick, and published in 1896 by Lawrence...
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the southern foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, in the country of the Paropamisadae. In Classical times, the Hindu Kush mountains were also designated...
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He chronicled his Kafiristan experience in the book The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush. Some have suggested that Robertson's year-long expedition and subsequent...
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The 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes struck in northern Afghanistan during the month of March. At least 166 people were killed with a very large and intermediate-depth...
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with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya mountain ranges. They are among the world's highest mountains...
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