What country does Hindu Kush cover most of Did the aryans come from Hindu kush mountains?

Answer 1

Hindukush Mountains divide Afghanistan from East to West leaving a smaller Northern portion and a large Southern portion. The word means 'mountains towards the side of the land of hindus' (Afghanistan till 1,000 AD had a hindu kingdom). Aryans came into India from Afghanistan and other countries of Central Asia, Kyrghystan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran, etc. It was a general Aryan movement from Andronovo region to East and West. In West, the Ionians (Yavanas) and other tribes reached Greece and further. BTW, I am a kashmiri brahmin. The person from whom my geneology is considered to have begun, Upamanyu, was from Kamboja, which is the general area of Kabul. He has a verse in RigVeda and is mentioned to have met Lord Krishna in Bhagawat Purana. Prior to that, Kambojas are supposed to have come from Uttara Kamboja (the northern Kamboja) which must have been farther away. In a similar way, the tribe which fought the Mahabharata War, the Kauravas, are mentioned to have come from Uttara Kuru (North Kuru, is that Kurgan?). And the Madras are mentioned to have come from Uttara Madra (North Madra) and settled in Punjab. The father of the five Pandava brothers married a princess of the Madras (Madri), and the youngest brothers (Nakul and Sahadev) were her sons. The Zoroastrian (another branch of Aryans) Avesta mentions thirteen homelands of Aryans after leaving their first, Arianam Vaejo, most of which are identified with places in Central Asia and the fifteenth is Hapta-Hendu (Sapta-Sindhu, the land of seven rivers, i.e., North-Western India).

Answer 2

It was an old Kingdom which was located in what is now Sudan. It was centred on the confluence of the White Nile, the Blue Nile and Atbara rivers.