Kabulistan
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Kabulistan (Persian: کابلستان ) is an old term referred to the eastern territories of Khorasan centered in today's Kabul city. It is reported as Caboul in many old English and French books.
Kabulistan covered modern-day Kabul, Kapisa, Peshawar 1, Jalalabad 2 and even reaching to Chitral in the east and Ghazni in the west.
In most of the English and French books from 18th to 20th centuries, almost all the regions of today's Afghanistan was known as Caboul and its kingdom was called Kingdom of Caboul. The word Afghanistan was attributed to the southern parts of modern-day Afghanistan inhabited by Pashtuns which is today known as Pashtunistan. Please check this map which was published in 1838 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Other old terms for the different regions of Persia are Zabulistan[1], Sijistan, Balochistan, Takharistan, etc.
In some periods Kabulistan had its own independent kingdoms; e.g. Kabul-Shahan who built a defensive wall around the Kabul city when the Muslim invasions reached Khorasan.
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