page_title: Buzkashi
hierarchical_section_title: Buzkashi
caption_attribution_description: English: Game of Buzkashi in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2001. U.S. Air Force photo by StaffSgt. Cecilio Ricardo source: http://www.geekphilosopher.com/bkg/peopleAfghanBuzkashi.htm caption: http://www.army.mil/operations/oef/images4.html
context_page_description: Buzkashi is a Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. Similar games are known as kokpar, kupkari, and ulak tartysh in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and as kökbörü and gökbörü in Turkey, where it is played mainly by communities originally from Central Asia.
context_section_description: Buzkashi (بزکشی, literally "goat pulling" in Persian) is a Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. Similar games are known as kokpar, kupkari, and ulak tartysh in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and as kökbörü and gökbörü in Turkey, where it is played mainly by communities originally from Central Asia.
caption: Game of buzkashi in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
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