page_title: Kabulistan
hierarchical_section_title: Kabulistan
caption_attribution_description: English: Bokhara Cabool Beloochistan, Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1838. From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
context_page_description: Kabulistan is a historical regional name referring to the territory that is centered on present-day Kabul Province of Afghanistan. It included the land as far as Peshawar and Swabi in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
  In many Greek and Latin sources, particularly editions of Ptolemy's Geography, the name of the region is given as Cabolitae. European writers in the 18th to the 20th centuries sometimes referred to Durrani Empire as the Kingdom of Caboul.
context_section_description: Kabulistan (Pashto/Persian: کابلستان‎) is a historical regional name referring to the territory that is centered on present-day Kabul Province of Afghanistan. It included the land as far as Peshawar and Swabi in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 
  In many Greek and Latin sources, particularly editions of Ptolemy's Geography, the name of the region is given as Cabolitae (Καβολῖται). European writers in the 18th to the 20th centuries sometimes referred to Durrani Empire as the Kingdom of Caboul.
caption: Map of the Kingdom of Caboul, published in 1838 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The name Caboul was attributed to most of current territories of Afghanistan.
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