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Afghan`istan`
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A country in the centre of Asia, between India on the east and Persia on the west, its length about 600 m. and its breadth about 500 m., a plateau of immense mountain masses, and high, almost inaccessible, valleys, occupying 278,000 sq. m., with extremes of climate, and a mixed turbulent population, majority Afghans. The country, though long a bone of contention between England and Russia, is now wholly under the sphere of British influence.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Afghan`istan`'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/a/afghanistan.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Afghan`istan`'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/a/afghanistan.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
