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'''Roh''' was a historical region spanning present-day [[Pakistan]] and [[Afghanistan]], recognising as the original homeland of the [[Rohillas|Rohilla]] community.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Balfour |first1=Edward |title=The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia Commercial, Industrial and Scientific, Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures · Volume 3 |date=1883 |publisher=Bernard Quaritch |location=London |page=433 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iU0OAAAAQAAJ&dq=rohilla+roh&pg=PA433 |access-date=7 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="gommans">{{cite book|title=The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire: C. 1710-1780|quote=The designation ''Rohilla'' developed during the seventeenth century as a fairly broad notion of the people coming from ''Roh'' or ''Rõh'', corresponding roughly with the mountainous terrain of the eastern [[Hindu Kush]] and the [[Sulaiman Range]]. Only in the seventeenth-century Indian and Indo-Afghan works do we find ''Roh'' frequently used as a more specific geographical term which corresponded with the territory stretching from [[Swat District|Swat]] and [[Bajaur]] in the north to [[Sibi]] and [[Bhakkar]] in [[Sind]], and from [[Hasan Abdal]] in the east to [[Kabul]] and [[Kandahar]] in the west.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-2TH8UYeAaoC |last=Gommans|first=Jos J.L.|author-link=Jos Gommans|publisher=BRILL|year=1995|pages=219|isbn=9004101098}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wink |first=André |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPXvDwAAQBAJ&dq=Roh+andre+wink&pg=PA125 |title=The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: c.700–1800 CE |date=2020-08-06 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-41774-7 |language=en}}</ref> The name [[Rohilkhand]], a historian region in [[India]], is derived from this community.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Yule |first1=Henry |last2=Burnell |first2=A.C. |title=Hobson-Jobson The Definitive Glossary of British India |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199601134 |page=444 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F51h6q-bB6sC&dq=rohilla+roh&pg=PA444 |access-date=7 January 2024}}</ref> Notably, several dynasties of India, including the [[Lodi dynasty]], [[Sur dynasty]] and [[Karrani dynasty]], trace their origins back to Roh, highlighting its importance in the region's historical narrative.<br />
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