Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

English

Proper noun

the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

  2. (history) Former official name of Afghanistan: a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; used from 1978 to 1987 when it was a one party Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992, but under the same government.
    Synonyms: Afghan Democratic Republic, DRA, Republic of Afghanistan, Soviet Afghanistan
    Hypernym: Afghanistan

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