hindu kush in English

noun
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a mountain range in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan that forms a western continuation of the Himalayas. Several peaks exceed 20,000 feet (6,150 m), the highest being Tirich Mir.

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1. The principal mountain range of Bactria was the Paropamrnisus or Hindu Kush

2. The mountains of the Hindu Kush range diminish in height as they stretch westward.

3. Afghani is a landrace strain of Afghanistan that first sprouted in the Hindu Kush Mountains

4. He ruled a vast territory from the Hindu-Kush to the Punjab around 170 BCE.

5. Afghan Kush's roots trace back to the Hindu Kush mountain range near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

6. Afghani is a heavy-bodied pure indica that is from the deep Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan

7. Bactria definition, an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains

8. The mountain ranges known as the Hindu Kush cover most of the country. Afghanistan's climate features little rainfall.

9. Also referred to as lord of the Bhang, Shiva descended from the Hindu Kush mountain range, bringing his/her drink as …

10. Bactria is an ancient region of Central Asia, between the Hindu Kush Mountain range and the Oxus River (today generally called the Amu Darya River)

11. The original homeland of the Proto-Bulgarians, called Balhara by Indians and Bactria by Greeks, was situated in the foothills of the Pamir and Hindu Kush Mountains

12. The Kabul River is little more than a trickle for most of the year, but swells in summer due to melting snows in the Hindu Kush Range.

13. The Kingdom of Bactria was located north of the Hindu Kush mountain range and south of the Amu Darya river, on the plateau where Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are today

14. No other peak on earth, except Mount Everest, is further away from a higher peak--you have to travel over 10,250 miles to the Hindu Kush Mountains of Pakistan to find higher ground when traveling from Aconcagua.

15. At that time, the satrap Diodotus declared independence and founded the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, which covered the area south of the Caspian Sea, up to the Aral Sea, and east to the Hindu Kush and the Pamir Mountains.

16. Guardians of the Hindu Kush (Total War: Attila) Gyan-Avspar (Total War: Attila) H Hearth Guard (Total War: Attila) Hephthalite Chargers (Total War: Attila) Herculiani Seniores (Total War: Attila) Heroic Cavalry (Total War: Attila) Hetaireia Guards (Total War: Attila)

17. Bactria, the territory of which Bactra was the capital, originally consisted of the plain between the Hindu Kush and the Āmū Daryā with its string of agricultural oases dependent on water taken from the rivers of Balḵ (Bactra), Tashkurgan

18. Bactria, the territory of which Bactra was the capital, originally consisted of the plain between the Hindu Kush and the Āmū Daryā with its string of agricultural oases dependent on water taken from the rivers of Balḵ (Bactra), Tashkurgan, Kondūz, Sar-e Pol, and Šīrīn Tagāō

19. Bactria lies on one of the main trade routes between Central Asia and South Asia; the Salang Pass pass goes south from Bactria to Kabul across the Hindu Kush mountain range, and from Kabul the Khyber Pass leads to Pakistan and India.The region is a crossroads and many ethnic groups are represented; the largest group are the Tajiks, and the main local language is the Tajik dialect of Persian.