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    The Nuristanis are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages...
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    Kafir harp (category Nuristan Province)
    four- or five-stringed arched harp used by the Nuristanis native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Lower Chitral District of northwestern...
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    By then, Kafiristan had been literally wiped off the map and renamed "Nuristan" in Amir Abdur Rahman Khan's 1895 conquest, and it was soon forgotten by...
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  • spirits), Rübezal (mountain spirit), and Holda (Christmas character), etc. Nuristan mythology at the lowest level includes demons and various spirits. The...
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  • autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush, around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan, ostensibly to make the first mountaineering ascent...
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    cultural links to the nearby regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir and Nuristan. Death (personification), which also discusses the Grim Reaper List of...
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    eastern regions they differ, for example wooden multistoried dwellings in Nuristan. Married sons often share houses with their parents, but with separate...
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    Strand (31 December 2005). "Richard Strand's Nuristân Site: Peoples and Languages of Nuristan". nuristan.info. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019...
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  • pp. 771–772. Allen, Nicholas Justin (1991). "Some gods of Pre-Islamic Nuristan". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 208 (2): 141–168. doi:10.3406/rhr...
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    Hindu Kush (category Landforms of Nuristan Province)
    century when it was converted to Islam by the Durrani Empire and renamed Nuristan ("land of light"). The Hindu Kush range has also been the passageway for...
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