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PAROPAMISUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAROPAMISUS  , the name given by the Greeks to the parts of the

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Hindu Kush bordering
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Kohistan to the
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north-
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west of
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Kabul . It is now applied in a restricted sense to the
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water-parting between
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Herat and the
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Russian frontier on the
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Kushk
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river, which possesses no
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local name of its own . From Herat
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city to the
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crest of the Paropamisus, which is crossed by several easy passes, is a distance of about 36 m., involving a rise of loon ft .

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