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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