KABULISTAN

'Kabulistan' () is an old term referred to the eastern territories of Khorasan centered in today's Kabul city. It is reported as 'Caboul' in many old English and French books.
Kabulistan covered modern-day Kabul province, Jalalabad 2, Kapisa (in the north), Peshawar 1 (in the south), Chitral in the east and Ghazni in the west. In some sources, Sawat (e.g. in Baburnama) and parts of Bactria have been included in Kabulistan's territory.
In some of the English and French books from 18th to 20th centuries, almost all the region of today's Afghanistan was known as ''Caboul'' and its kingdom was called the ''Kingdom of Caboul''.^[1] The word ''Afghanistan'' was attributed to the southern parts of modern-day Afghanistan inhabited by Pashtuns which is today known as Pashtunistan.
Other old terms for the different regions of Persia are Zabulistan^[2], Sejistan, Sistan, Takharistan, etc.
In some periods Kabulistan had its own independent kingdoms; e.g. Kabul-Shahan who built a defensive wall around the Kabul city when the Muslim invasions reached Khorasan.

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1.
"History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878", p.2, ''George Bruce Malleson'', Elibron Classics Series, 2005 Adament Media Corporation, LINK
2. For example refer to Shahname. e.g. So happy became the king of Kabulistan from the marriage of the sun of Zabulistan [1]