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The Hazarajat (,, also referred to as Hazaristan ) is the homeland of the Hazara people, and lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.
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Hazarajat and also
Hazaragi is spoken by Hazara people who mainly live in Afghanistan ( the Hazarajat and also in major urban areas ), Pakistan ( particularly Quetta ) and Iran ( particularly Mashhad ), with diaspora communities in the Americas, Europe and Australia.
A minority of Balochs and Tatars are also found in Hazarajat.
Dari Persian is the official language in Hazarajat, and Pashto is also spoken in the region.
There are also roads leading to Gardez and in the east and other nearby villages as well as to various towns in Hazarajat in the north.
Hazarajat and referred
During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Colonel T. H. Holdich of the Indian Survey Department referred to the Hazarajat as “ great unknown highlands ”.
Hazarajat and is
Hazaragi () is a dialect of the Persian language spoken by the Hazara people, primarily in an area of central Afghanistan known as the Hazarajat, as well as other Hazara-populated areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.
It is not certain when Mongolic died out as a living language in the Hazarajat.
The name Hazarajat is rarely used by the Hazara people.
Within Hazarajat the majority is Hazara, with minority Tajiks, Pashtuns, Sayyids, and Qizilbash.
The northeastern part of the Hazarajat, is the site of ancient Bamyan, a center of Buddhism and a key caravanserai on the Silk Road.
The Hazarajat was considered part of the larger geographic region of Khurasan ( Kushan ), the porous boundaries of which encompassed the vast region between the Caspian Sea and the Oxus River, thus including much of what is today Northern Iran and Afghanistan.
Hazarajat is mountainous, a series of mountain passes extend along the eastern edge, where Salang Pass is blocked for half of the year due to snow while Shibar Pass, being at a lower elevation, is snowed for two months.
Bamyan is the largest province in the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan, and is the cultural capital of the Hazara ethnic group that predominates in the area.
It is located in central Afghanistan, about 310 kilometres from Kabul, and falls into the traditionally ethnic Hazara region known as the Hazarajat.
With an altitude of about 9, 200 feet ( 2, 800 m ) and with a population of about 61, 863, is the largest town in the region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan and the capital of Bamyan Province.
Aimaq is a dialect of the Persian language spoken west of the Hazarajat ( or Hazarastan ), in central northwest Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Tajikistan.
Barbari is a language of Afghanistan, a dialect of Persian, spoken in West of the Hazarajat, central northwest Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Tajikistan.
The most numerous Shi ' a sect in Afghanistan is the Twelver Shi ' a, who are mostly of the Hazara ethnic group living in the Hazarajat of central Afghanistan, and the Farsiwan of Herat Province.
Assef, a notorious sociopath and violent older boy, mocks Amir for socializing with a Hazara, which is, according to Assef, an inferior race whose members belong only in Hazarajat.
It is the main road connection of Kabul with Hazarajat.
Hazarajat and Hazara
A distinct Hazara Persian dialect began to emerge amongst the people of the Hazarajat in the late 18th century.
Similarly the Ilkhanate Mongols ( one main tribe of the ancestors of Hazara ) rulers became so involved with Persian that after Iskan Khan, when the Mongols went to the mountains of present Hazarajat they took the language of Persia with them along with Shi ' a Islam.
In 1720s when the Ghilzai Pashtuns were independent of Safavids, Pashtuns began the migration into the pastures of Hazarajat and pushing Hazara people toward west.
Pashtun nomads were moved into the Hazarajat, where they overran Hazara farmlands and pastures.
Economic conditions are reported to have improved in the Hazarajat during the war, when Pashtun Kuchis stopped grazing their flocks in Hazara pastures and fields.
This policy had disastrous consequences for the Hazarajat, whose inhabitants were singled out by Abdur Rahman Khan ’ s regime as particularly troublesome: “ The Hazara people had been for centuries past the terror of the rulers of Kabul ”.
Today the Nurzai are spread throughout large portions of Afghanistan excluding the Hazarajat ( traditional Hazara territory ) and traditional Tajik territories in the Afghan North.
Hazarajat and people
There seem to be two main reasons that caused the demise of Mongolic language and emergence of Hazaragi amongst the people of the Hazarajat.
Persian language has had a strong impression on the people of Hazarajat due to religion and Iranian learning and culture.
Subsequent British travelers doubted whether Ferrier had ever actually left Herat to venture into Afghanistan ’ s central mountains and have suggested that his accounts of the region were based on hearsay, especially since very few people dared then to enter the Hazarajat ; even Pashtun nomads would not take their flocks to graze there, and few caravans would pass through.
In late 19th century Hazaragi, a distinct Persian dialect, began to emerge among the people of Hazarajat.
Hazarajat and lies
The Hazarajat lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i Baba Mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.
Hazarajat and central
Conversely, some regions such as Nuristan, in the northeast, and Hazarajat, in the central mountains of Afghanistan, were virtually untouched by the fighting, and lived in almost complete independence.
Leprosy has been reported in the central Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan, including Hazarajat provinces such as Bamyan, Wardak, and Ghazni.
The Buddhas of Bamiyan ( Pashto: د بامیان بوتان-" de bámiyán botán ", – but hay-e bamiyan ) were two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, situated northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2, 500 meters ( 8, 202 ft ).
There are no formal Sufi orders among the Shi ' a in the central Hazarajat, although some of the concepts are associated with Sayyids, descendants of the Prophet Mohammad, who are especially venerated among the Shi ' a.
Hazarajat and highlands
Increasingly during summers, Pashtun nomads would camp in large numbers in the Hazarajat highlands.
Hazarajat and Afghanistan
Its boundaries have historically been inexact and shifting, and in some respects Hazarajat denotes an ethnic and religious zone rather than a geographical one — that of Afghanistan ’ s Turko-Mongol Shiʿites.
Kizilbash in Afghanistan live in urban areas, such as Kabul, Herat or Mazari Sharif, as well as in certain villages in Hazarajat.
Hazarajat and among
They are found primarily in and near the eastern Hazarajat, in the Baghlan area north of the Hindu Kush, among the mountain Tajik of Badakhshan, and amongst the Wakhi in the Wakhan Corridor.
Hazarajat and mountains
It rises in the Hindu Kush mountains, about west of Kabul (), passing north of the Unai Pass, in the eastern proximities of Hazarajat, in Behsud, flows west to Daykundi and Uruzgan.
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