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Balkh (bälkh)

town in N Afghanistan: site of an ancient city that flourished as the capital of Bactria &, later (7th-13th cent.), as a center of Islam

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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