Abdur Rahman Khan GCSI was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to his death in 1901. He is known for uniting the country after years of internal fighting and negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with British India.
European influence in Afghanistan has been present in the country since the Victorian era, when the competing imperial powers of Britain and Russia contested for control over Afghanistan as part of the Great Game.
The following lists events that happened during 1911 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened during 1901 in Afghanistan.
Related to 1896 in Afghanistan: Negotiations are going on between the Indian government and the amir tending to the appointment of a joint commission for determining the last 100 miles (160 km) of Indo-Afghan frontier yet unsettled, from Landi Kotal in the Khyber to Nawar Kotal on the Kunar River.
The Mohmand or Momand tribe is one of the most prominent Abdālī Pashtun tribes and they are descended from the 1st Son of Daulatyar and 2nd son, Daudzai, according to Pashtun historical literature. They are based primarily in the eastern districts of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, and the Mohmand district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, bordering Nangarhar to the east.
The Second Anglo-Afghan War was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan. The war was part of the Great Game between the British and Russian empires.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, was a British Anglo-Indian diplomat and member of the Indian Civil Service.
The Treaty of Gandamak officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Mohammad Yaqub Khan ceded various frontier areas to Britain while retaining full sovereignty over Afghanistan.
Abdur Rahmān Mohmand or Rahmān Bābā, was a renowned Afghan Sufi Dervish and poet from Mohmand Agency in Peshawar during the Mughal era. He, along with his contemporary Khushal Khan Khattak, is considered to be one of the most popular poets among the ethnic Pashtuns. His poetry expresses the mystical side of Islam, in line with his Sufi-oriented nature.
The following lists events that happened during 1898 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened during 1899 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened during 1900 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened during 1913 in Afghanistan.
The First Mohmand campaign was a British military campaign against the Mohmands from 1897 to 1898.
The Sheikh Ali are a major tribe of Hazaras. They live in Afghanistan generally in Bamyan, Parwan, Kunduz and Baghlan provinces, inhabiting the road from Kabul to Mazar-e-Sharif.
The Arg serves as the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. It sits on a 34-hectare (83-acre) site in District 2, between Deh Afghanan and the affluent neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan. It has been used by many Afghan heads of state, from Emir Abdur Rahman Khan to former President Ashraf Ghani.
Starting in the 1880s, various Pashtun-dominated governments of Afghanistan have pursued policies, called Pashtunization, aimed towards settling more ethnic Pashtuns in the northern region of Afghanistan.
The 1888–1893 Uprisings of Hazaras occurred in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, when the Afghan Emirate signed the Treaty of Gandamak. Afghan King Abdur Rahman Khan set out to bring the Turkistan, Hazarajat and Kafiristan regions under his control. He launched several campaigns in the Hazarajat due to resistance from the Hazaras, and he conducted a widespread campaign on its population.
Nazir Muhammad Sarwar Khan was the Governor of Herat from August 1882 to November 1886. A loyal supporter of Abdur Rahman, he accompanied the future Amir into exile and was rewarded with high office upon their return to Afghanistan. However, he was stripped of his role after accusations of corruption, and died in prison.
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