Hindu Kush (mountains)

natural · 550 BC – 640 AD

The Hindu Kush mountain range, which extends through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, was known to the Greeks and Romans as the Paropamisos or Caucasus mountains. They are not to be confused with the other Caucasus Mountains (greater and lesser) between the Black and Caspian Seas.

Coordinates

35.13908, 68.58863

Also known as

Caucasus M., MONS DAROP+NISOS (la), Mons Daropanisos (la), Parnassos M., Paropanisadai M., Paropámisos (grc), Παροπάμισος (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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