Qataghan-Badakhshan Province () was a province, located in

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. The province was originally created in 1890 when the districts of Qataghan and Badakhshan was separated from the

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province. Administration of the province was assigned to the Northern Bureau in

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. Fayz Muḥammad Katib. Siraj al-tawarıkh. V. III. Afghanistan Digital Library. In 1963 Badakhshan included the districts of

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, Pul-i-Khumri, Dushi, Dahan-i-Ghori,

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Hazrat-i-Imam
and

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. In 1963 Qataghan-Badakhshan Province was abolished and since then the territory was divided into four separate provinces -

Badakhshan Badakhshan is a historical region comprising the Wakhan Corridor in northeast Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China. Badakhshan Province is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. Much of historic ...

, and

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Ludwig W. Adamec Ludwig W. Adamec (10 March 1924 – 1 January 2019) was an Austrian scholar on the Middle East and Afghanistan. He was a professor emeritus in the School of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona.

. ''Historical and political gazetteer of Afghanistan Vol. 1. Badakhshan Province and northeastern Afghanistan''.

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: Akad. Druck- und Verl.-Anst., 1972.p. 26.

References

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