Definition of Northern alliance

1. Noun. A multiethnic alliance in Afghanistan who practice a moderate form of Islam and are united in their opposition to the Taliban.

Exact synonyms: United Front
Generic synonyms: Alignment, Alinement, Alliance, Coalition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Northern Alliance

North Sulawesi
North Sumatra
North Temperate Zone
North Vietnam
North Vietnamese
North West Frontier Province
North Yemen
North Yorkshire
Northampton
Northamptonshire
Northants
Northeast
Northeast Caucasian
Northeast Pashayi
Northern Alliance
Northern Areas
Northern Baptist
Northern Baptist Convention
Northern California
Northern Cross
Northern Cyprus
Northern Europe
Northern European
Northern Europeans
Northern Hemisphere
Northern Ireland
Northern Irelander
Northern Irish
Northern Irishman

Literary usage of Northern alliance

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

1. Anne Boleyn: A Chapter of English History. 1527-1536 by Paul Friedmann (1884)
"THE COLLAPSE OF THE northern alliance. SCARCELY had the blood of More dried on Tower The. Hill when bad news arrived from every quarter. jj%£wk Besides the ..."

2. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"The Ismaili community also fought for the northern alliance against the Taliban and suffered when the Taliban occupied territories once held by Ismaili ..."

3. St. Petersburg and London in the Years 1852-64 by Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1887)
"London, Feb. 13: The latest Blue- Books—Hopes and Fears.—London, Feb. 28 : Dissolution of the northern alliance—Russia and the Party of Revolution. ..."

4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"The aspirations of the northern alliance were of a constitutional-monarchic character. In the Southern Alliance, chiefly composed of members of the second ..."

5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The aspirations of the northern alliance were of a constitutional-monarchic character. In the Southern Alliance, chiefly composed of members of the second ..."

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