SAFED KOH

säfādˈ kō, mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, SE of Kabul; rises to 15,620 ft (4,761 m) at Mt. Sikaram. It parallels the Kabul River. A spur of the range is crossed by the Khyber Pass. The lower slopes are nearly barren; pine and deodar formerly grew on the main range, but devastation during the Afghan civil war reduced timber resources. The valleys support some agriculture.

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1.
India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography
Book by O. H. K. Spate; Methuen, 1954
Subjects: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
...volcanoes II. NORTH-WESTERN HILLS 1. Southern Transverse Zone: a. Waziristan @from I. Ib b. Kurram vy c. Safed Koh i. Safed Koh r ii. Kabul vy: F--Khyber P 2. Northern Longitudinal Zone: Chitral, Panjkora, Swat vys @to IV.5 III...
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The Pattern of Asia
Book by Norton S. Ginsburg, John E. Brush; Prentice-Hall, 1958
Subjects: Asia
...Pakistan frontier are enclosed by higher ranges, such as the Safed Koh, in which the rivers take their origin and through which...Afghanistan, descending from the flanks of the Hindu Kush and Koh-i- Baba through a succession of tectonic basins at different...
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The Changing World: Studies in Political Geography
Book by W. Gordon East, A. E. Moodie; George G. Harper, 1956
Subjects: Geography--Textbooks--1945-, Twentieth Century
...south- west, broken across by the Kabul river and the Safed Koh range, between which lies the Khyber Pass. As a rule...the British inherited from the Sikhs, the daman-i-koh "skirt of the mountain" , where the hills break down...
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Pakistan
Book by Ian Stephens; Frederick A. Praeger, 1963
Subjects: Pakistan--History
...fields, good orchards, perhaps a few shade-giving cedars; or reveals, far-off, glimpses of snowy Sikaram in the Safed Koh, nearly 16,000 feet high. But even at moments of enchantment such as these, it retains that first, special feeling...
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Winter India
Book by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore; The Century Co., 1904
Subjects: India--Description And Travel
...389 Rugs, 268 Runjeet Singh, 248 , 299 Russian advance, the, 248 , 277 , 284 , 285 Sadi, 229 Safdar Jang, 283 Safed Koh, 259 , 275 Saints, 206 , 267 , 274 , 283 Samarkand, 265 , 268 , 271 Samovar, 265 Sanchi, toran of, 99 , 142 Sanskrit...
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The Lawles Frontier
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Boundary disputes--Social aspects, Civil war--Causes of, Ethnic relations--Analysis, Government resistance--Social aspects, Government, Resistance to--Social aspects, National liberation movements--Social aspects, Paramilitary groups--Social aspects, Radicalism--Social aspects, Social conflict--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Subversive activities--Social aspects, Taliban--Military policy, Tribal government--Analysis
...from Shias-"so how can we consider them our brothers?" The only certainty is that Para-chinar, hemmed in by the Safed Koh Mountains on the Af-ghan border, has little more room to expand. A high birth rate and a flood of Afghan refugees...
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Lawless Frontier: The Tribal Lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Reveal the Future of Conflict in the Subcontinent, along with the Dark Side of Globalization
Magazine article by Robert D. Kaplan; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Afghanistan, Pakistan--Political aspects
...from Shias--"so how can we consider them our brothers?" The only certainty is that Parachinar, hemmed in by the Safed Koh Mountains on the Afghan border, has little more room to expand. A high birth rate and a flood of Afghan refugees have...


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encyclopedia articles on: Safed Koh  - 2 results

 
 
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Safed Koh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAFED KOH safad ko, mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, SE of Kabul; rises to 15,620 ft (4,761 m) at Mt. Sikaram...
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Khyber Pass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KHYBER PASS ki b r, narrow, steep-sided pass, 28 mi (45 km) long, winding through the Safed Koh Mts., on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border; highest point is 3,500 ft (1,067 m). The routes through it link the cities...


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