Afghanistan

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1. A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul.First known use 1768

   I am now arranging, and endeavouring to render worthy of the notice of the public, a ſecond volume, which contains a relation of my journey from Kaſhmire to England, through Afghaniſtan, Perſia, and Ruſſia.

   1790, George Forster, “Preface”, in A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia; and into Russia, by the Caspian Sea. […], volume I, Calcutta: […] Press of Cooper and Upjohn, →OCLC, page 5

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   But Shahab ul dien Mahummud, brother to the Prince of Ghor, invaded the kingdom of Ghizni, which he conquered, and not ſatisfied with that, marched an army into Hindoſtan, overrunning Piſhawir, Afghaniſtan, Moultan and Sind.

   1768, Mahummud Casim Ferishta, translated by Alexander Dow, “The Reign of Chusero Malleck, ben Chusero Shaw”, in The History of Hindostan; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of Akbar; […], volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, page 141

   This Timoor Shah is the ſon of the famous Ahmed Shah Abdalee, who was formerly in the ſervice of Nadir Shah, and upon the aſſaſſination of that monarch, ſeized the vaſl treaſures which had been depoſited in the Caſtle Herat, and carried them off into the mountains of Afghaniſtan, where his ſtandard was preſently joined by numbers of needy followers, and with this army he ſoon founded an independent kingdom to the eaſtward of Perſia.

   1781 October 22, “From the Delhi Gazette, Calcutta”, in The Remembrancer; or, Impartial Repository of Public Events. For the Year 1782., part II, London: […] J[ohn] Debrett, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 43, column 1

   Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.

   2008 February 19, John F[isher] Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

   Synonyms: Graveyard of Empires