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- See also changes related to Afghanistan, or pages that link to Afghanistan or to this page or whose text contains "Afghanistan".
Parent topics
- 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]
- British Empire [r]: The worldwide domain controlled by Britain from its origins about 1600 [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]
- Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. [e]
- Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [e]
Subtopics
- Durand Line [r]: 19th century demarcation of the border between Afghanistan and British India, now defining the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. [e]
- Hazara [r]: A Mongol-descended people of Afghanistan, speaking a dialect of Persian with Mongol words, and primarily following Shi'a Islam [e]
- Kabul [r]: Capital of Afghanistan. [e]
- Lodhi [r]: A Pashtun tribe, a sub-group of the larger Gilzais of Afghanistan and Pakistan. [e]
- Pashtun [r]: Eastern Iranian ethnic group primarily located in southern Afghanistan and in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan; their language is Pashto. [e]
- Tajik [r]: An ethnic group of Central Asia, culturally Persian and speaking the Dari dialect of Farsi; they are the dominant group of Tajikistan and the second largest ethnic group of Afghanistan [e]
Wars
- Afghanistan War (1978-1992) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Afghanistan War (2001-2021) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attack, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Inter-Services Intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- UNESCO [r]: Specialized agency of the UN, created in 1946, to aid peace by promoting international cooperation in education, science, and culture. [e]
- Cremona [r]: Town, in Italy, known world-wide for the construction of artisanal violins [e]
- Indochina and the Second World War [r]: Between 1936 and 1947, external events, related to the Second World War, which affected French Indochina [e]
- Ecological succession [r]: The fundamental concept in ecology which refers to more-or-less predictable and orderly changes in the composition or structure of an ecological community. [e]
- Balance of trade [r]: The difference between the monetary value of exports and imports in an economy over a given time. [e]