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Baloch (Asian people)


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    • Balochi (Asian people)
    • Balochs (Asian people)
    • Baloci (Asian people)
    • Balooch (Asian people)
    • Baluch (Asian people)
    • Baluchi (Asian people)
    • Baluchis (Asian people)
    • Baluci (Asian people)
    • Beluch (Asian people)
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    • found: Work cat.: Ṣūrat K̲h̲ān. The serviles : Baloch resistance, 2014:p. 9 (Baloch nationalism is in every Baloch innerself; the Baloch) p. 4 of cover (Surat Khan writing [may] be most controversial but it is a fact in Balochistan he is the most widely read writer) p. 210-211 (Surat Khan's tribe, tribe is the fabric of Baloch society, apart from Surat Khan there are thousands of other people in his tribe; the Balochs)
    • found: Minahan, J. Encyclopedia of the stateless nations, 2002(Baluch; variants: Balooch; Baloch; Baluchis; Brahuis; Kur Galli. Approximately 11,540,000 Baluch in southern Asia, with 6,460,000 Baluch and 2,310,000 Brahuis in Pakistan, 1,360,000 in Iran, and 375,000 in Afghanistan. Large populations live outside the homeland, particularly in the Pakistani port of Karachi; The Baluch homeland lies in southern Asia, straddling the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the Baluch of Pakistan have a degree of autonomy in Baluchistan, but in Iran, where they form the majority of the provinces of Seistan and Baluchistan, they have few group rights; the Baluch nation is made up of two distinct but culturally and historically related peoples, the Baluch (Nharhui Baluch, the formerly nomadic descendants of Iranian tribes), and the Brahui (Brahui Baluch, the traditionally settled population descended from the region's pre-Aryan Dravidian inhabitants); numerous, often antagonistic, tribal groups broadly grouped into Western, Eastern, and Southern Baluch; the Baluch language, Balochi)
    • found: Merriam-Webster dictionary online, June 7, 2017(Baluchi or less commonly Balochi 1 : a member of an Indo-Iranian people of Baluchistan 2 : the Iranian language of the Baluchis)
    • found: Britannica online, June 7, 2017:Baloch (Baloch, people; Baloch, also spelled Baluch or Beluch, group of tribes speaking the Balochi language and estimated at about five million inhabitants in the province of Balochistān in Pakistan and also neighbouring areas of Iran and Afghanistan. In Pakistan the Baloch people are divided into two groups, the Sulaimani and the Makrani, separated from each other by a compact block of Brahui tribes; some 70 percent of the total Baloch population live in Pakistan. About 20 percent inhabit the coterminous region of southeastern Iran)
    • found: LCSH, June 7, 2017(Baluchi (Southwest Asian people). UF Baloch (Southwest Asian people); Balochi (Southwest Asian people); Baloci (Southwest Asian people); Baluch (Southwest Asian people); Baluchis; Baluci (Southwest Asian people). BT Ethnology--Afghanistan; Ethnology--Iran; Ethnology--Pakistan)
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    • 2017-06-07: new
    • 2022-03-22: revised
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