Kāmdīsh or Kāmdēsh is a village, located in the Bashgal Valley, in Nurestan Province

Nurestan Province

Nuristān , also spelled Nurestān or Nooristan, is a region in Afghanistan embedded in the south of the Hindu Kush valleys. Its administrative center is Parun...

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. It is the capital of the Kamdesh district

Kamdesh District

Kamdesh District is a district of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan. It was originally in Konarha Province and then was moved to the newly created Nuristan Province in 2001.-Boundaries:...

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Kamdesh is a village within the Landai Sind Valley. It stands as the cultural and administrative hub of the Kamdish District and all of Eastern Nuristan. Kamdesh literally means "Place of the Kom", as it is the unofficial Capital for the Kom tribe. Within Kamdesh today a visitor can identify each of the original clans identified by Sir George Scott Robertson in the 1890s when he visited the area outlined in "Kaffirs of the Hindu Kush."

External links

• Photo of Kamdesh, Nurestan
• [The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush by George Scott Robertson]