Editing Hazarajat (section)

===Climate===
Hazarajat is mountainous,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XfgLAAAAYAAJ&q=author:+%22Minorsky%22 Anonymous, Ḥodud al-ʿālam, tr. Minorsky, London, 1937; reprinted, 1982, p. 105].</ref> and a series of mountain passes extend along its eastern edge. One of them, the [[Salang Pass]], is blocked by snow six months out of the year.  Another, the [[Shibar Pass]], at a lower elevation, is blocked by snow only two months out of the year.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=l5JiewAACAAJ&q=geographie+de+l%E2%80%99Afghanistan Johannes Humlum, ''La geographie de l'Afghanistan'', Copenhagen, 1959, p. 64] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520203632/https://books.google.com/books?id=l5JiewAACAAJ&q=geographie+de+l%E2%80%99Afghanistan |date=2023-05-20 }}.</ref> [[Bamyan]] is the colder part of the region, with severe winters.<ref>Ebn Ḥawqal, Ke-tāb ṣurat al-arż, trs. J. H. Kramers and G. Wiet as Configuration de la terre, II, Paris, 1964, p. 227.</ref>

[[File:Cold Country.jpg|thumb|Winters in central Afghanistan can be brutally cold with temperatures as low as {{convert|-20|C|1}}]]

Hazarajat is the source of the rivers that run through [[Kabul River|Kabul]], [[Arghandab River|Arghandab]], [[Helmand River|Helmand]], [[Hari (Afghanistan)|Hari]], [[Murghab River|Murghab]], [[Balkh River|Balkh]], and [[Kunduz River|Kunduz]]; during the spring and summer months it has some of the greenest pastures in Afghanistan.<ref>[[Ḥamd-Allah Mostawfi]], Nozhat al-qolub, tr. Guy Le Strange, London 1919, p. 212</ref> [[Band-e Amir|Natural lakes]], green valleys and caves are found in Bamyan.<ref>
[https://books.google.com/books?id=w1eaQgAACAAJ&q=the+hazaras+of+afghanistan S. A. Mousavi, ''The Hazaras of Afghanistan'', London, 1998, p. 71].
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