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MIRANZAI VALLEY, or HANGU

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MIRANZAI VALLEY, or HANGU , a See also:

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain valley on the See also:

KOHAT

Kohat border of the See also:

North-See also:

West Frontier See also:

Province of See also:

India. Miranzai comprises two valleys draining S.W. into the Kunam and N.E. into the Kohat Toi. It is thus divided into upper and See also:

LOWER

lower Miranzai, and extends from Thal to Raisan, and from the See also:

ZAIMUKHT

Zaimukht and See also:

ORAKZAI

Orakzai hills to those of the Khattaks. Its length is about 40 m., and its breadth varies from 3 to 7 M. See also:

AREA

Area, 546 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 43,901. The portion of Miranzai See also:

east of Hangu See also:

VILLAGE

village consists of numerous small and well-cultivated valleys, in which See also:

ORCHARD (O. Eng. ort-geard, later orceard; a combination apparently of Lat. hortus, garden, and " yard " or " Barth ")

orchard trees flourish abundantly. To the west of Hangu, including the whole of Upper Miranzai, the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is a broad, open, breezy valley. The See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain is See also:

BARE

bare of trees, but the hills are generally covered with scrub. The country is full of ravines towards Thal. The See also:

WEALTH

wealth of the inhabitants consists principally in See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, goats and See also:

sheep; of these the cows are of a lean and See also:

DWARF (A.S. dweorg, D. dwerg, Icel. dvergr)

dwarf breed, and give but little See also:

MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk. Miranzai forms the See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of many different tribes; but its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief inhabitants are the See also:

BANGASH

Bangash and Orakzais.

Disturbances have necessitated See also:

BRITISH

British expeditions in 1851, 1855, and twice in 1891.

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