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GHILZAI

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GHILZAI  , a large and widespread Afghan tribe, who extend from

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Kalat-i-Ghilzai on the S. to the
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Kabul
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river on the N., and from the Gul Koh range on the W. to the
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Indian border on the E., in many places overflowing these boundaries . The popular theory of the origin of the Ghilzais traces them to the
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Turkish tribe of Kilji, once occupying districts bordering the upper course of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes), and affirms that they were brought into
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Afghanistan by the Turk Sabuktagin in the loth century . However that may be, the Ghilzai clans now rank collectively as second to none in strength of military and commercial enterprise . They are a
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fine, manly
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race of
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people, and it is from some of their most influential clans (Suliman Khel, Nasir Khel, Kharotis, &c.) that the main
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body of
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povindah merchants is derived .

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