Torkman Valley or (Dare''-ye'' Torkman, prs, دره ترکمن; haz, دره تورکمو) is a valley in Afghanistan located in
Surkhi Parsa District, Parwan Province in
Hazarajat
Hazaristan ( fa, هزارستان, Hazāristān), or Hazarajat ( fa, هزارهجات, Hazārajāt) is a mostly mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains in the western extremities of the ...
region, which is inhabited by the
Hazara people
The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scatt ...
.
Etymology
The name of this valley is derived from the
ethnonym Turkoman,
or the Turkmani, one of the main
tribes
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
of
Hazara people
The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scatt ...
.
Demographics
The Turkman valley is populated by Hazaras. They speak the
Hazaragi
Hazaragi ( fa, , Həzārəgī; haz, , links=no, Āzərəgī) is an eastern dialect of Persian that is spoken by the Hazara people, primarily in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, as well as other Hazara-populated areas of Afghanist ...
dialect of
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
.
History
Notable people
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Commander Shafi Hazara
Commander Shafi Hazara ( prs, قومندان شفیع هزاره) was an ethnic Hazara military commander in Afghanistan. He was a senior commander during the resistance of west Kabul and Hazarajat between 1991 and 1996. In the 1990s he led H ...
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Abbas Noyan
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Wakil Hussain Allahdad
Wakil Hussain Allahdad (1986-2018) was an ethnic Hazara wrestler, entrepreneur and community first responder in Afghanistan.
History
Wakil Hussain Allahdad was born in 1986 in Afghanistan in a family who were members of the Hazara ethnic gro ...
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Mohaqiq Kabuli
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Mohammad Ebrahim Khedri
Muhammad Ebrahim Khedri ( prs, محمد ابراهیم خدری) known as Pahlawan Ebrahim (); (11 April 1938 – 22 May 2022) was an ethnic Hazara wrestler from Afghanistan, who competed at the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 Summer Olympics in th ...
See also
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First Campaign against Turkomen Hazaras
The First Campaign against Turkoman Hazaras was a Mughal Empire campaign against Hazaras in the 16th century. Following Babur's departure from Kabul for Qalat, the Hazaras took advantage of his absence to raid his territories. After Babur had re ...
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List of Hazara tribes
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Valleys of Afghanistan
As a mountainous country, Afghanistan contains countless notable valleys. The majority of the valleys are located in parts of northeastern, central, southern and southeastern Afghanistan. The southeastern areas are wetter and are covered by f ...
References
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Valleys of Afghanistan
Surkhi Parsa
Hazarajat
Hazara people