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European influence in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4025 words) |
 | The debacle of the Afghan civil war left a vacuum in the Hindu Kush area that concerned the British, who were well aware of the many times in history it had been employed as the invasion route to India. |
| The Afghan ruler was worried about the southward encroachment of Russia, which by 1873 had taken over the lands of the khan, or ruler, of Khiva. |
| The second section of Afghan border demarcated during Abdur Rahman's reign was in the Wakhan Corridor. |
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