Kafiristan, a lofty mountainous region in the E. of Afghanistan, S. of the Hindu-Kush, with the Panjshir, Kabul, and Chitral Rivers on the W., S., and E.; the people are undersized, pastoral, and devoted to their Aryan faith, which here has its last stronghold, not organised politically, but united in their love of independence and hatred of Mohammedanism.
Population (circa 1900) given as 200,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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