Qataghan Province
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Qataghan Province (Persian: قطغن) was a province of Afghanistan which became defunct in 1963, when it was divided into the current Baghlan Province, Kunduz Province, and Takhar Province.[1]
| Qataghan Province ولایت قطغن | |||||||||||
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| Province of Afghanistan | |||||||||||
| 19th century–1963 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Baghlan | ||||||||||
| Demonym | Qataghan or Qataghani | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 36°43′44″N 68°51′25″E / 36.7289°N 68.8569°E | ||||||||||
| • Type | Province | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 19th century | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1963 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Afghanistan | ||||||||||
From the 19th century to 1963 Qataghan and neighboring Badakhshan Province were united into a single province called Qataghan-Badakhshan Province. It was ruled by a single governor and was divided into two separate provinces in 1963.[1] The capital of Qataghan Province was Baghlan, now a city in the north of Baghlan Province.
Etymology
[edit]Historian William Maley stated that the removal of the term "Qataghan" upon the division of the area was part of a deliberate process to remove ethnic identities from administrative names, drawing a comparison with the division and renaming of Hazarajat, homeland of the ethnic Hazaras.[2]
Music
[edit]Qataghani style songs were born in Qataghan Province.
Population
[edit]Large population of Qataghan people are in Baghlan the capital of Qataghan province living into Darah Nikpai.
Economy
[edit]Mostly rice farming, since 2003 people starting grapes farming, there are also few gold mines in Baghlan.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Burhanuddin Kushkaki. Rāhnamā-yi Qaṭaghan va Badakhshān. Kabul: Vizarat-i Ḥarbiyah, 1923.
- “Kataghan” in Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan Vol. 1. Badakhshan Province and northeastern Afghanistan. Graz: Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst., 1972. pp. 94–96.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ludwig W. Adamec. Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan Vol. 1. Badakhshan Province and northeastern Afghanistan. Graz : Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst., 1972.
- ^ Maley, William (March 1998). Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan and the Taliban. ISBN 9780814755860.
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