GHILZAI  , a large and widespread Afghan tribe, who extend from See also:

• KALAT

Kalat-i-Ghilzai on the S. to the See also:

• KABUL

Kabul See also:

• RIVER

river on the N., and from the Gul Koh range on the W. to the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian border on the E., in many places overflowing these boundaries . The popular theory of the origin of the Ghilzais traces them to the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish tribe of Kilji, once occupying districts bordering the upper course of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes), and affirms that they were brought into See also:

• AFGHANISTAN

Afghanistan by the Turk Sabuktagin in the loth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . However that may be, the Ghilzai clans now See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank collectively as second to none in strength of military and commercial enterprise . They are a See also:

• FINE

fine, manly See also:

• RACE

race of See also:

• PEOPLE

people, and it is from some of their most influential clans (Suliman Khel, Nasir Khel, Kharotis, &c.) that the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• BODY

body of See also:

• POVINDAH

povindah merchants is derived .