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GALCHAS , the name given to the highland tribes of See also:Ferghana, See also:Kohistan and Wakhan. These See also:Aryans of the Pamir and See also:Hindu Kush, kinsmen of the Tajiks, are identified with the Calcienses populi of the See also:lay Jesuit See also:Benedict Goes, who crossed the Pamir in 1603 and described them as " of See also:light See also:hair and See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
beard like the Belgians." The word " Galcha,'! which has been explained as meaning " the hungry See also:raven who has withdrawn to the mountains," in allusion to the See also:retreat of this See also:branch of the See also:Tajik See also:family to the mountains to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape the Tatar hordes, is probably simply the See also:Persian galcha, " See also:clown " or " rustic," in reference to their uncouth See also:manners. The Galchas conform physically to what has been called the " Alpine or See also:Celtic See also:European See also:race," so much so that See also:French anthropologists have termed them " those belated Savoyards of Kohistan." D'Ujfalvy describes them as tall, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown or bronzed and even See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, with ruddy cheeks, See also:black, See also:chestnut, sometimes red hair, brown, See also:blue or See also:grey eyes, never oblique, well-shaped, slightly curved See also:nose, thin lips, See also:oval See also:face and See also:round See also:head. Thus it seems reasonable to hold that the Galchas represent the most eastern See also:extension of the Alpine race through See also:Armenia and the See also:Bakhtiari uplands into central See also:Asia. The Galchas for the most See also:part profess Sunnite Mahommedanism.
See See also:Robert See also:Shaw, " On the Galtchah See also:Languages," in Journ. As. See also:Soc. See also:Bengal, xlv. (1876), and xlvi. (1877); See also:Major J. Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo-Kocsh (See also:Calcutta, 188o) ; Hon. Mountstuart See also:Elphinstone, An See also:Account of the See also:Kingdom of Caubul (1815); See also:Bull. de la societe d'anthropologie de See also:Paris (1887); See also:Charles See also:Eugene D'Ujfalvy de Mezoe-Koevesd, See also:Les Aryens (1896), and in Revue d'anthropologie (1879), and Bull. de la See also:sac. de geogr. (See also:June 1878) ; W. Z. See also:Ripley, Races of See also:Europe (New See also:York, 1899).
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