Kalat

or Khe·lat

[ kuh-laht ]

/ kəˈlɑt /

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noun

a region in S Baluchistan, in SW Pakistan.

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How to use Kalat in a sentence

The Kalat fortress is only of minor importance as the guardian of the Mula stairway to the plains of India.
The Gates of India|Thomas Holdich
Istakhri makes it three days, the distance from Bahu Kalat to Sarbaz being about 80 miles.
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From Kalat he wandered at leisure northward till he overlooked the Dasht-i-bedaulat from the heights of Chahiltan.
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However, for the time he was forced to return to Urmara on the Makran coast, from which place he hoped to reach Kalat.
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Kalat again was his first 373 objective, and to reach that place he followed very much the same route as before.
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British Dictionary definitions for Kalat

Kalat

Khelat

/ (kəˈlɑːt) /

noun

a region of SW Pakistan, in S Baluchistan: formerly a princely state ruled by the Khan of Kalat, which joined Pakistan in 1948

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