Badakhshan is a mountainous region divided between northeastern Afghanistan and the republic of Tajikistan. China borders both units to the north. Once part of the ancient Greek kingdom of Bactria, the rugged mountain and valley terrain of the...

Badakhshan (Persian: بد خشان, Tajik: Бадахшон/"Badakhshon") is a region comprising parts of northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan. Badakhshan Province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of...

The Ismailite minority of Afghanistan is concentrated in the mountainous region of Bdakhshan, and has been discrimminated against by the Sunni majority for most of the 20th century. Gorno-Badakhshan could, with federal assistance, serve as a center for the Ismailis to retain their religious...

Feldspathoids are peculiar minerals. Compositionally, most appear to be complex chemical repositories whose major purpose seems to be the accommodation of some ions that might best go elsewhere (such as into a feldspar in the case of aluminum) if there were only enough...