Gandamak is a village of Afghanistan, 35 miles (56 km) from Jalalabad on the road to Kabul. On the retreat from Kabul of General Elphinstone's army in 1842, a hill near Gandamak was the scene of the massacre of the last survivors of the force: twenty officers and forty-five British soldiers. It is also notable for the treaty of Gandamak, which was signed here on May 26, 1879 between the British government and His Highness Muhammad Yakub Khan, Amir of Afghanistan and its dependencies. Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād, 34°31′N 70°31′E) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass and west of the Kunar River. ... View of Kabul (2001/2) Kabul Kabul (34°32′N 69°10′E, Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... Major-General William Elphinstone Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone, British soldier. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Treaty of Gandamak ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Muhammad Yakub Khan (1849 - 1923), was an emir of Afghanistan between 1879 and 1880. ... Emir (also sometimes rendered as Amir or Ameer, Arabic commander) is a title of nobility historically used in Islamic nations of the Middle East and North Africa. ...

Gandamak is also the name of a famous dog kennel in Bratislava, Slovakia, which breeds Afghan Hounds. Bratislava (until 1919: Prešporok in Slovak, Pressburg in German and English, Pozsony in Hungarian, Požun in Croatian) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 450,000. ... The Afghan Hound is a very old sighthound dog breed. ...

External links

• Gandamak.com – official site of the dog breeding kennel in Slovakia.

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