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thumbnail The Hazarajat ((ペルシア語:هزاره جات), , also referred to as Hazaristan〔(– ''Some Hazara prefer to call the area Hazaristan, using the more modern "istan" ending.'' )〕) is a regional name for the territory inhabited by the Hazara people, which lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush. Its physical boundaries are roughly marked by Bamiyan to the north, the headwaters of the Helmand River to the south, Firuzkuh in Ghor to the west, and the Unai Pass to the east. "Hazārajāt denotes an ethnic and religious zone rather than a geographical one—that of Afghanistan's Turko-Mongol Shiʿites." Hazarajat is primarily made up of Bamyan, Maidan, Ghazni and Daykundi but also include varying parts of Ghor, Oruzgan, Parwan, Samagan, Baghlan, Balkh, Badghis and Sar-i-pul provinces. The region has also been known as ''Paropamizan''. The name Hazarajat first appears in the 16th century Baburnama, written by Mughal Emperor Babur. When the famous geographer Ibn Battuta arrived to Afghanistan in 1333, he travelled across the country but did not record any place by the name of Hazarajat or Hazara people.〔 It was also not mentioned by previous geographers, historians, adventurers or invaders. ==Etymology and usage== The name Hazarajat is used by the Hazara people, and surrounding peoples to identify the historic Hazara lands. The term might be linguistically compounded ''Hazara'' and the suffix ''jat''; jat is a suffix that otherwise is used to make root words associated with land like Shumali Alaqa(JAT) Northern Areas in Pakistan, Dera (JAT) Dera Ghazi Khan and Dera Ismail Khan and other areas in South, central and west Asia. Maqdesi, an Arab geographer, named Hazarajat as ''Gharj Al-Shar-Gharj'' meaning "mountain" area ruled by chiefs. The region was known as Gharjistan in the late Middle Ages, though the exact locations of main cities still remain unidentified.〔Ḥamd-Allah Mostawfi, Nozhat al-qolub, tr. Guy Le Strange, London 1919. pp 415–16〕〔(S. A. Mousavi, The Hazaras of Afghanistan, London, 1998, p. 39 )〕 The name Hazarajat first appears in the 16th century Baburnama, written by Mughal Emperor Babur. 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「Hazarajat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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