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The Bettani or Bēṭanī ((パシュトー語:بېټني)) (also spelled ''Bhittani'' in older British sources) is a Pashtun tribal confederacy located mostly in Pakistan with a small number dwelling in Afghanistan. The Bettani are named after ''Shaykh Beṭ'',〔 their legendary ancestor who is said to be the second son of Qais Abdur Rashid. The Bettani confederacy includes the supertribes of Ghilji and Lodi, as well as the tribe of Shirani.〔(Bet Sheikh شېخ بېټ نيکه. ) Khyber.ORG.〕 The Bettani proper reside in Frontier Region Tank, a territory that is a buffer zone separating Tank District from the Mahsud tribe of South Waziristan Region in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The Bettani tribe live in the Frontier Region of District Tank and in FR Lakki Marwat of Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Pakistan. Jandola is considered the capital of the Bettani tribes in FR Tank. A tiny minority of Betani lives in Afghanistan, on the western edge of the Solayman mountains. The circumstances of its separation from the main body of the tribe are completely unknown. Perhaps this was the former location of the tribe. In the early 1930s three villages in the Ghazni area were reported to be inhabited by Betani, and in addition 100 nomadic Betani families migrated between eastern Afghanistan and the Derajat (Robinson, p. 158). The Bhittani claim descent from Shaikh Bet Baba (Baitan), the third son of Qais Abdurisheed, the founder of Pashtun. Sheikh Bet is reported to have lived in the Altamur range, between Logar and Zormat (Bellew, p. 12), and to have been buried at Ghazni (Hayat Khan, p. 156). His descendants in the male line, the Betani, are known to have inhabited the same area up to the ninth/fifteenth century, when their Ghilji cousins expelled them (Ibbetson, p. 78). Bhittani are also referred to as Bitani, Bettani, Battani, Bhettani and Bhittani. In eastern sources it is sometimes written Betani or Bittani, whereas in British sources it is habitually transcribed Bhettani or Bhittani. Some of the Bettani tribes are residing in Hyderabad, India and United Arab Emirate (UAE) from last 45 years (Need proper source). ==District Tank, FR Tank & FR DI Khan & FR Lakki== The area is mainly inhabited by the Bhittanis who have three sub-sections namely Tatta,Waraspon and Dhanna. The Bhittanis, as evident from their name, claim decent from Baitan, the third son of Qais, the founder, according to one doctrine, of the Pukhtoon race. They also inhibit F.R. D.I. Khan and F.R. Bannu, mostly the mountainous area on the borders of Tank and Bannu from the Gabbar mountain in the north to the Gomal valley in the south. According to traditions, they were first living in Koh-i-Sulaiman, but the Ghiljis drove them out of their homeland and they settled where they are now. During the reign of Pashtun Sultans of Delhi they enjoyed prestigious positions, and a large number of them used to serve in the Sultanate’s army. Bhittanis tribe is divided in three sections: Tattao- at Jandola and Siraghar in the Dera Ismail Khan and some adjoining areas; Dhanna- on the Gabbar mountain and in the Bannu F.R.; Waraspun- inhibinting the F.R. Dera Ismail Khan and some adjoining valleys. Frontier Region Lakki is inhabited by the Boba, Bobak and Wargara clans of the Bhittanis. Most of Danni- inahibinting in F.R. Tank and some adjoining valleys. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bettani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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