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GHILZAI , a large and widespread Afghan tribe, who extend from See also:

Kalat-i-Ghilzai on the S. to the See also:Kabul See also:river on the N., and from the Gul Koh range on the W. to the See also:Indian border on the E., in many places overflowing these boundaries. The popular theory of the origin of the Ghilzais traces them to the See also:Turkish tribe of Kilji, once occupying districts bordering the upper course of the Syr Darya (Jaxartes), and affirms that they were brought into See also:Afghanistan by the Turk Sabuktagin in the loth See also:century. However that may be, the Ghilzai clans now See also:rank collectively as second to none in strength of military and commercial enterprise. They are a See also:fine, manly See also:race of See also:people, and it is from some of their most influential clans (Suliman Khel, Nasir Khel, Kharotis, &c.) that the See also:main See also:body of See also:povindah merchants is derived.

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