Qala Wust
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Qala Wust[1] (name variants: Kala Wust, Ūst, Qal‘ah-ye Ūst (BGN standard), Qal‘a-i-Ūst, Qala Ust, Qala Yost, Qal‘eh-ye Vost[2]) is a mountain village in the Wakhan region of the Badakhshan Province, north-eastern Afghanistan.
Qala Wust is a settlement of Tajik highlanders.[3]
The village gave names to the Qala Wust Valley,[4][5] Qala Wust Gneiss formation,[6] and made a former name (Koh-i Qala-i Ust; koh-i means "mountain of") of the Kohanha massif.[3]
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- ↑ "qala/kala/etc. means "fort", stronghold" in Iranian languages
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- ↑ a b "Himalaje-Karakorum", by Kazimierz Saysse-Tobiczyk, 138, 148 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ The American Alpine Journal, Volume 15, p. 220 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ The Himalayan journal, Volume 32, p. 48 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ↑ Geology of Central Badakhshan and Surrounding Countries, 1975, Istituto di Geologia, Universita de Milano (Italy), p. 300 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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