Dah Marda

The Dah Marda or Dah Mardah or Dahmarda (Balochi: دهمردگ , Persian: دهمرده), is a tribe of Baloch people[1][2] who live in Afghanistan and Iran.[3]

In Afghanistan the tribe's primary residence was the Nizar in the Kang District,[4] and in the Zaranj city and Chahar Burjak districts they villages with name of Dahmarda.

The most of Dah Marda tribe speak the Rakhshani dialect of the Balochi language, but Persian and Pashto languages are also spoken.

References

  1. ^ Naval Postgraduate School, the Baluch Tribal Tree page 1
  2. ^ Amiri, Ghulam Rahman (1977). A contemporary picture of Afghan Sistan - tribe of Nimroz (PDF). Kabul: Ākadimī-i ʻUlūm-i J.D, The Helmand Sistan Project. p. 140.
  3. ^ Hille, Charlotte (2020). Clans and Democratization: Chechnya, Albania, Afghanistan and Iraq. BRILL. p. 252. ISBN 9789004415485.
  4. ^ Adamec, Ludwig W. (1973). Historical and Political Gazetteer of Afghanistan, Vol. 2: Farah and Southwestern Afghanistan. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. pp. 59, 214. ISBN 978-3-201-00857-0.