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Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
-stan is a Persian suffix that seems functionally equivalent to the Germanic -land.
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan are the sovereign -stan states.
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When did the Pakistan army used tank for the first time during the 1971 Bangladesh war?
I would like to know the first recorded case of usage of tank in the Bangladesh war which took place in 1971.
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Can a country only have one indigenous population?
I recently came across the Kalash people of Pakistan and Afghanistan (thanks to this amazing music, if anyone's interested). As far as I can tell, studies seem to suggest the Kalash are indigenous to ...
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