Khyber

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Who -did- name the Khyber Pass?

 

"Although the Pashtuns are the predominant ethnic group

living in the outlays of the Pass, "Khyber" is not a Pashto

word but a Hebrew term meaning "fortress". Many historians

speculate that a Jewish tribe chased out of Palestine by

Alexander the Great sought refuge in the Pass, travelling as

far as Tibet and Kashmir. Historians then assume the

dispersed Jewish tribe gradually assimilated itself into the

local population, converting to Buddhism and later Islam. "

 

from "The trade the Khyber woke" - Kipling

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