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Wakhan

Also known as Wakhan Corridor

The Wakhan is a high, narrow valley in north-eastern Afghanistan between the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush, inhabited mainly by Wakhi and Kyrgyz herders. A route of the ancient Silk Road towards China, it was ruled by local mirs under Badakhshan. In 1893 and 1895 Britain and Russia set it as a strip of Afghan territory, the Wakhan Corridor, separating the Russian Empire from British India.

Wakhan
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Principality of Badakhshan

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