Kabulistan

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Map of the Kingdom of Caboul, published in 1838 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The name Caboul was attributed to most of current territories of Afghanistan.
Map of the Kingdom of Caboul, published in 1838 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The name Caboul was attributed to most of current territories of Afghanistan.

Kabulistan (Persian: کابلستان) is a historical term refering to the eastern territories of Khorasan that is centered around present-day Kabul, Afghanistan. It is sometimes reported as Caboul in many old English and French books.

At its peak, Kabulistan included Kunduz, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Qandahar, and the territory to the east, as far as the Indus River in Pakistan.[1] [2][3]

In some of the European books that were written during the 18th to the 20th centuries, most of today's Afghanistan was known as Caboul and its kingdom was called the Kingdom of Caboul.[4] The name "Afghanistan" was attributed to southern of Kabulistan (region of Waziristan, Peshawar, Balochistan and NWFP), the region that is inhabited by Pashtuns and is seldomly referred to as Pashtunistan.

In some periods Kabulistan had its own independent kingdoms; e.g. Kabul-Shahan who built a defensive wall around the Kabul city when the Arabs arrived at Khorasan.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The Story of Kabul, Timurids, "Kabul under Pir Muhammad was now the prosperous capital of a province which included Kunduz, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Qandahar, and the territory to the east, as far as the Indus."
  2. ^ Section 14 – The Kingdom of Gaofu (Kabul)
  3. ^ txt_030_after
  4. ^ "History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878", p.2, George Bruce Malleson, Elibron Classics Series, 2005 Adament Media Corporation, LINK


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