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Definition of Hindu kush mountains

1. Noun. A mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hindu Kush Mountains

Literary usage of Hindu kush mountains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. At the Court of the Amir by John Alfred Gray (1901)
"Among the hindu kush mountains. The camp in the Hazara country. The dismal night. Courtesy of Jan Mahomed. The hungry morning. Mountain paths. Iron spring. ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"The great feature of the region is the range of the hindu kush mountains, with its spurs and valleys down which the rivers find their way to the Kabul. ..."

3. The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Manchester Geographical Society (1894)
"The Kunar river flows down a valley which is parallel with the line of the Hindu Kush mountains, but it has only been partially explored, the whole length ..."

4. A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur by William Erskine (1854)
"... on the north, by the lofty Hindu-kush mountains ; on the west, by them and by the range which runs between the Hindu-kush and Khorasan ; on the east, ..."

5. Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet by Henry Lansdell (1893)
"hindu kush mountains. „ Simo Gray . . Trans-Alai, etc., Pamirs. „ Mnemosyne v. Gigan- tea Stgr. . . Alai Mountains, Pamirs. ..."

6. The Law Relating to the Hindu Widow by Trailokyanath Mitra (1881)
"... remembered from time immemorial, and as there is no written record of the Aryan people in their home beyond the Hindu Kush mountains, whereas there is a ..."

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