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_bG373 1878
100 1 _aGarcia Ayuso, Francisco, 1835-1897.
245 1 0 _aEl Afghanistan :
_bdescripcion histórico-geográfica del país; religion, usos y costumbres de sus habitants /
_cpor D. F. G. Ayuso.
260 _aMadrid :
_bAdministracion, calle de la Cabeza,
_c[1878].
300 _avii, 254 pages :
_bmaps ;
_c30 cm.
500 _a“El Afghanistan: Descripcion histórico-geográfica del país; religion, usos y costumbres de sus habitantes (Afghanistan: a historic and geographic description of the country; religion, manners and customs of its inhabitants) is a short book in Spanish, published in Madrid in 1878, for the use of contemporary travelers and others interested in Afghanistan. At the time it was published, it was one of the few sources available in Spanish about the country. The book is in three parts. The first covers geography, and has chapters on different regions, with some attention paid to the problem of defining the borders between Afghanistan and British India (i.e., present-day Pakistan). The second part is devoted to ethnography, and has separate chapters on Afghans, Baluchis, and other diverse peoples. The third part is a summary of the history of Afghanistan. There is a large fold-out map. The author, Francisco García Ayuso, was a leading orientalist in late-19th century Spain. After studying at the University of Munich, he returned to Madrid, where he became a member of the Real Academia Española. The author of books on a wide range of topics, including the religion of ancient Iran and Sanskrit philology, Ayuso also taught many languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit, and Syriac”—copied from website.
500 _aThe Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
504 _6includes bibliographical references.
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651 0 _aAfghanistan.
856 _qPDF
_uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds352_g373_1878
_zScanned for ACKU.
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