1896
Conquest of Kafiristan
Abdur Rahman's army conquers Kafiristan and the region is renamed Nuristan.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Nuristan in Afghanistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Abdur Rahman's army conquers Kafiristan and the region is renamed Nuristan.
A rebellion begins in the Nuristan region of eastern Afghanistan and civil war spreads throughout the country
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