Du Ab District

Du Ab District, Dō Āb District,[2] Du'ab District, Doab District,[3] (Persian: ولسوالی دوآب‎, Pashto: دو آب ولسوالۍ‎ two waters[4] ) is a district of Nuristan Province, in eastern Afghanistan.[5]

For other uses, see Do Ab (disambiguation).

Du Ab
District
Du Ab
Location within Afghanistan
Coordinates: 35°12′50″N 70°22′24″E
Country Afghanistan
ProvinceNuristan Province
Population
 (2010)
 • Total7,700[1]

History

The Taliban launched an attack on the Du Ab and Qatar Khak areas on 31 January 1997.[6]

References
  1. "Nuristan Provincial Profile" (PDF). Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  2. Dō Āb (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. "Executive Summaries: Nuristan Summary 2009" Program for Culture & Conflict Studies, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
  4. Paul Preston; Michael Partridge; Anita Prazmowska (May 1999). British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Soviet Union, January 1947-December 1947. University Publications of America. Great Britain. Foreign Office. ISBN 978-1-55655-764-4. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  5. "Afghanistan Administrative Divisions" map, March 2007, Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS)
  6. British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service (1997). Summary of world broadcasts: Asia, Pacific. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 5 February 2011.


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