Kabulistan
Kabulistan (Persian/Pashto: کابلستان) is a historical term referring to the eastern territories of Greater Khorasan that is centered around present-day Kabul, Afghanistan. It is sometimes mentioned as Caboul in many old English and French books.
At its peak, Kabulistan included Peshawar, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Qandahar, and the territory to the east, as far as the Indus River in Pakistan.[1][2][3]
In some of the European books that were written during the 18th to the 20th centuries, most of today's Afghanistan was known as Caboul and its kingdom was called the Kingdom of Caboul.[4] The name "Afghanistan" was attributed to the land south of Kabulistan (Northwestern Pakistan, referred to as Pashtunistan and including parts of Balochistan).
In some periods Kabulistan had its own independent kingdoms. Kabul Shahis ruled the region between 565 and 879 BCE with Kabul and Kapisa as their capitals. In the 9th century CE, they were thrown out of Kabul by Ya'qub-i Laith Saffari, the founder of the Saffarid dynasty[5]. Kabul Shahis had built a defensive wall all around the Kabul city to protect it against the army of Muslim Saffarids. The remaining of these walls are still visible over the mountains which are located inside the Kabul city.
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- ^ The Story of Kabul, Timurids, "Kabul under Pir Muhammad was now the prosperous capital of a province which included Kunduz, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Qandahar, and the territory to the east, as far as the Indus."
- ^ Section 14 – The Kingdom of Gaofu (Kabul)
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- ^ "History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878", p.2, George Bruce Malleson, Elibron Classics Series, 2005 Adament Media Corporation, LINK
- ^ Kohzad, Ahmad Ali, "Kabul Shāhāni Berahmanī", 1944, Kabul
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