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Dardistan

Today it means: A region comprising northern Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, and parts of northeastern Afghanistan, inhabited by the Dards. Full definition →

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From Dard + -istan; coined by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.