page_title: Ghilji
section_title: Areas of settlement
hierarchical_section_title: Ghilji / Areas of settlement
caption_attribution_description: English: Tents of Afghan nomads or Kuchis are common in the village of Muqur in Badghis province. Numbering in the millions throughout the country, Kuchi life traditionally depends on the trading of animal products such as meat, dairy and wool from their herds of sheep, goats and camels. (Photo ID: 288568)
context_page_description: The Ghiljī also spelled Khilji, Khalji, Ghilzai or Ghilzay, are one of the largest tribes of Pashtuns. Their traditional homeland stretches from Ghazni and Qalati Ghilji in Afghanistan eastwards into parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan. They are also settled in other parts of Afghanistan. The modern nomadic Kochi people mostly belong to the Ghilji tribe.
  The Ghilji mostly speak the central dialect of Pashto with transitional features between the southern and northern varieties.
context_section_description: In Afghanistan, the Ghilji are primarily concentrated in an area which is bordered in the southeast by the Durand Line, in the northwest by a line stretching from Kandahar via Ghazni to Kabul, and in the northeast by Jalalabad. They are also found in large numbers in northern Afghanistan. The Ghilji are settled in smaller numbers in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan, west of the Indus River.
  Before the 1947 Partition of India, the Ghilji historically used to seasonally winter as nomadic merchants in India, buying goods there, and would transport these by camel caravan in summer for sale or barter in Afghanistan.
caption: Tents of Afghan nomads in Badghis Province who are known in Pashto as Kōchyān
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