Qala Wust

Qala Wust
village
Qala Wust

Location in Afghanistan

Coordinates: 36°58′19″N 72°50′48″E / 36.97194°N 72.84667°E / 36.97194; 72.84667Coordinates: 36°58′19″N 72°50′48″E / 36.97194°N 72.84667°E / 36.97194; 72.84667
Country  Afghanistan
Province Badakhshan Province
Time zone + 4.30

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]

References

  1. "qala/kala/etc. means "fort", stronghold" in Iranian languages
  2. "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. (one has to enter the search term)
  3. 1 2 "Himalaje-Karakorum", by Kazimierz Saysse-Tobiczyk, 138, 148
  4. The American Alpine Journal, Volume 15, p. 220
  5. The Himalayan journal, Volume 32, p. 48
  6. Geology of Central Badakhshan and Surrounding Countries, 1975, Istituto di Geologia, Universita de Milano (Italy), p. 300
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