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18 matches to Afghanistan
Afghanistan. c200BC Aryan. 6C BC Achaemenid. 330 Alexander...Seleucid/ Maurya. 2C BC Persia/ India/ Parthia/ Kushan. 7C Arab (NW). 750 Persia (W)/ Hindu (E). 1219 Mongol...Timurid. 1525 Mogul. 1737 Persia. 1747 Monarchy. 19 C Britain/Russia dispute 1880 British suzerainty. 1919 Independent. 1973 Marxist coup, Republic. 1978 Communist coup. 1979 Russian occupation. 1989 Mujahideen expel Russians aided by CIA. 1990s Warlords. 2001 US attack Taliban.
Afghanistan Invasion. 1979-87. Russian troops support Marxist revolutionaries.
Ahmad Shah Durrani. c1722-73. Founder, Afghanistan.
Amanollah Khan. 1892-1960. Amir of Afghanistan 1919-29. Won independence from Britain, 1919.
Bactria. c1500BC Aryan. 545BC Persia. 328BC Alexander. 256BC-140 Graeco-Bactria. Badakhshan. 7C Moslem. 1220 Genghis Khan. Now Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.
Caliphate Empire. 632-1258. Moslem Empire founded by Muhammad. From Afghanistan to north Africa and Spain. Umayyad. Abbasid.
Détente. 1969-79. Relaxation of Cold War tensions between SALT and Afghanistan Invasion.
Dost Muhammed. 1793-1863. Afghanistan ruler 1826-. Provoked Afghan Wars.
Durand Line. 1893. Divided Afghanistan from British India.
Ghaznavid. 977-1186. Turkish dynasty in Iran, Afghanistan, India.
Kushan. 78-220. Dynasty ruling Afghanistan, north India.
Moscow Olympics. 1980. Boycotted by Western nations opposed to Afghanistan invasion.
Mujahideen. 1978. Afghan guerilla militia. Supported by US vs Soviet occupation.
Qaeda, al-. 1989 Founded by Arabs in Afghanistan. 1990 Sudan. 1996 Afghan training camps. 2001 World Trade Center. Osama bin Laden.
Roberts, Frederick. 1832-1914. British Field Marshal. Afghan War. Boer War.
Shere Ali. 1825-79. Emir of Afghanistan. Defeated in Second Afghan War.
Suslov, Mikhail. 1902-82. Soviet Communist ideologist. Invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan.
Taliban. 1994. Militia created to unite Afghanistan under Sharia, strict Islamic law. Wahabi.