Qala Wust
Qala Wust | |
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village | |
  Qala Wust Location in Afghanistan | |
| Coordinates: 36°58′19″N 72°50′48″E / 36.97194°N 72.84667°E | |
| Country |  Afghanistan |
| Province | Badakhshan Province |
| Time zone | + 4.30 |
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Qala Wust[1] (name variants: Kala Wust, Ūst, Qal‘ah-ye Ūst (BGN standard), Qal‘a-i-Ūst, Qala Ust, Qala Yost, Qal‘eh-ye Vost[2]) is a mountain village in the Wakhan region of the Badakhshan Province, north-eastern Afghanistan.
Qala Wust is a settlement of Tajik highlanders.[3]
The village gave names to the Qala Wust Valley,[4][5] Qala Wust Gneiss formation,[6] and made a former name (Koh-i Qala-i Ust; koh-i means "mountain of") of the Kohanha massif.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "qala/kala/etc. means "fort", stronghold" in Iranian languages
- ^ "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on June 8, 2008. (one has to enter the search term)
- ^ a b "Himalaje-Karakorum", by Kazimierz Saysse-Tobiczyk, 138, 148 Archived 2023-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The American Alpine Journal, Volume 15, p. 220 Archived 2023-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Himalayan journal, Volume 32, p. 48 Archived 2023-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Geology of Central Badakhshan and Surrounding Countries, 1975, Istituto di Geologia, Universita de Milano (Italy), p. 300 Archived 2023-10-06 at the Wayback Machine