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Modern era · 1879

Treaty of Gandamak

The Treaty of Gandamak officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Afghan emir Mohammad Yaqub Khan ceded various frontier areas as well as Afghanistan's control of its foreign affairs to the British Raj.

Treaty of Gandamak
Treaty of Gandamak · The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
26 May 1879
Where
Jalalabad
Era
Modern

Topics

Afghanistan1221 – todayBritish India1700 – 1947

Before and after

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