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- Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
- Indoeuropean language [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Afghanistan Civil War (1989-1994) [r]: The conflict in Afghanistan between the departure of Soviet forces in 1989 and the taking of control by the Taliban in 1992, with conflict among mudjahadeen factions [e]
- Afghanistan [r]: A Islamic republic in Central Asia, with an unstable but elected government; borders China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan [e]
- Ahmad Shah Massoud [r]: Tajik Military leader of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and a noted fighter against the Soviet-supported government as well as the Soviets; assassinated by al-Qaeda on 9/9/2001; known as the Lion of the Panjshir [e]
- Ari Babakhanov [r]: An instrumental musician performing Central Asian traditional music, particularly of the Shash maqom style. [e]
- Bagram Airport [r]: A large airport, near Kabul, Afghanistan, with extensive military facilities. [e]
- Burhanuddin Rabbani [r]: President of Afghanistan during the post-Communist period, 1992-1996; a Tajik affiliated with the Northern Alliance [e]
- Central Asia [r]: A geographic area with many definitions, one common one based on the newly independent, predominantly Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union [e]
- Dari [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dushanbe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Farsi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hamid Karzai [r]: President of Afghanistan, who took interim office in 2002, was reelected to a full five-year term in 2004, and faces a new election in August 2009; Pashtun of the Durrani tribe [e]
- Iran [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
- Ismail Khan [r]: A Hazara warlord of western Afghanistan, whose base is in Herat, with good ties to but not under the control of Iran; he has been on both sides of warfare [e]
- Kabul [r]: Capital of Afghanistan. [e]
- Kandahar Province [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Khost Province [r]: A province of Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area [e]
- Mazar-e-Sharif [r]: Afghanistan's second-largest city, in its north [e]
- Northern Alliance [r]: A military alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan's civil war, which, with U.S. assistance, drove it from power in the Afghanistan War (2001-) [e]
- Paktika Province [r]: A province of eastern Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan [e]
- Pamir [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Panjshir Valley [r]: Surrounded by mountains in north-central Afghanistan, the traditional stronghold of the Tajiks of the Northern Alliance [e]
- Parwan Province [r]: A relatively peaceful province of Afghanistan, north of Kabul, and containing the key all-season route from the capital to the northern part of the country [e]
- Pashtu [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shomali Plain [r]: A plateau north of Kabul in Afghanistan, once fertile, devastated by war, and now being restored as farmland; it provides access to the only relatively safe north-south route in the country [e]
- Soviet Union [r]: A Communist state, which took over the Russian Empire, after the Russian Revolution of 1917 that existed from 1922 to 1991; the major part now extant as the Russian Federation [e]
- Tajikistan [r]: Bordered by Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, a landlocked, predominantly Muslim, nation of Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union [e]
- Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
- Uzbek [r]: An ethnic group of Central Asia, speaking a Turkic language [e]
