Darwaz District

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox settlement |name =Darwaz |native_name = درواز | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[Afghanistan]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan]] |image_map =Afghanistan_Badakhshan_Darwaz_district_location.PNG |government_type =District council |population_est =21,000 |pop_est_as_of ={{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} }}

'''Darwaz district''' was a district in [[Badakhshan Province]] in Afghanistan until 2005. It was part of the historic region [[Darvaz (region)|Darwaz]] which is now divided between [[Afghanistan]] and [[Tajikistan]]. In 2005 Darwaz District was subdivided into [[Maimay District]], [[Darwazi Bala District]], and [[Shekay District]]. Some maps use the name Darwaz for Maimay District.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/operations/afghanistan/infographics/publication-date/2014/infographic-type/reference-maps?page=1|title=Badakhshan Province Map|publisher=[[United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs]]|accessdate=2 October 2017}}</ref> The district was historically part of the [[Darvaz (region)|Darvaz]] principality, a semi-independent [[statelet]] ruled by a ''[[Mir (title)|mir]],''<ref name=becker>Seymour Becker. ''Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924''. Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. 1968. </ref> until 1878.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Grevemeyer |first=Jan-Heeren |date=1994 |title=DARVĀZ |url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/darvaz |website=[[Encyclopedia Iranica]] |quote=}}</ref>

==See also== *[[Darvaz (region)]] *[[Darvoz District]]

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[[Category:Districts of Badakhshan Province]]