Barakī Barak (

Dari Dari (; endonym: ), Dari Persian (, , or , ), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language;Lazard, G.Darī – The New Persian ...

Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

: برکی برک) is a town and the center of Baraki Barak District,

Logar Province Logar (Pashto/Dari: لوگر) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern section of the country. It is divided into 7 districts and contains hundreds of villages. Puli Alam is the capital of the province. As of 2021, Logar ...

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. It was also the former capital of Logar Province. The town is in a mountainous area in the valley of the

Logar River The Logar River (also Lowgar) is a river of Afghanistan. It gives the name to the Logar Valley and Logar Province. In Maidan Wardak Province where the river originates, it is called Chak River. The Chaki Wardak Dam is built on the river in Cha ...

. The main road

Ghazni Ghazni (, ), historically known as Ghaznayn () or Ghazna (), also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana (), is a city in southeastern Afghanistan with a population of around 190,000 people. The city is strategica ...

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passes about 20 km to the West of the town. The town is named after the historical

Ormur The Ormur (), also called Burki or Baraki (), are an Iranian peoples, Eastern Iranic people and Pashtuns, Pashtun tribe mainly living in Baraki Barak, in the Logar Province, Logar province of Afghanistan and in Kaniguram, in the South Waziristan ...

tribe, also locally known as ''Baraki''.

Ethnography

Baraki Barak has historically been home to the

tribe, also known as "Burki" or "Baraki", and to other

Pashtuns Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghan (ethnon ...

and

Tajiks Tajiks (; ; also spelled ''Tadzhiks'' or ''Tadjiks'') is the name of various Persian-speaking Eastern Iranian groups of people native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Even though the term ''Tajik'' ...

. The town is named after the Baraki people, some of whom still speak the

Ormuri Ormuri (Ormuri: اورموړی Pashto: اورموړی) also known as ''Baraki, Ormur, Ormui or Bargista '' is an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. It is primarily spoken by the Burki people in the town of Ka ...

(Baraki) language; they live to the northwest and west of the town, and also inside the town.

References

Populated places in Logar Province {{Lowgar-geo-stub

Ethnography

See also

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