Balkh (Tajik: Балх), before 2017: Kolkhozobod or Kolkhozabad (Russian transliteration), is a town in Tajikistan and not to be confused with the ancient...

Panjsher Balkh (Tajik: Панҷшер Балх) is football club from Balkh, Tajikistan. FC Panjsher was founded in 1973 under the name "Trud" during Soviet times...

Province, a province of Afghanistan Balkh River, a river in Afghanistan Balkh, Tajikistan, a town in Tajikistan, formerly known as Kolkhozabad Bactria...

Balkh (Dari and Pashto: بلخ, IPA: [balx]) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country. It is divided into 15 districts...

Fayzabad holds the remains of 8th-century Sufi saint Abu Abdurahmon from Balkh. The population of the town is 10,400 (January 2020 estimate). "Rasht Valley...

the 33rd season of the Tajikistan Higher League, Tajikistan's top division of association football. On 5 March 2024, the Tajikistan Football Federation announced...

Karluk-Turkic ethnic group, indigenous to Karategin, Tajikistan, but now living in the regions between Balkh and Kabul, in North Afghanistan. In the 16th century...

Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. As of March 2024[update], Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely...

(Tajik: Ҳисор) or Hisar (Russian: Гиссар, Gissar) is a city in western Tajikistan, about 15 km west of Dushanbe. The city was the seat of the former Hisar...

northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The extent of the region referred...

The province incorporated the territories of the present-day provinces of Balkh, Kunduz, Jowzjan, Sar-e Pol, and Faryab. In 1890, Qataghan-Badakhshan Province...

during the Muslim conquests and was later joined by groups of Arabs from Balkh and Andkhoy (present-day Afghanistan). According to Ibn Al-Athir, the Arabic...

population, with an estimated 500,207 residents in 2021. It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by highways with Kunduz in the east, Kabul in the...

Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is now Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya...

temples for fire worship have been found in Balkh and Bactria and excavations in present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan show remnants of Zoroastrian fire...

River which flows along Afghanistan's northern border separating it from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan before turning northwest into Turkmenistan to the Aral...

Offering of Liang, 11th century Song copy. Ambassadors from Qubodiyon (阿跋檀), Balkh (白題國) and Wakhan (胡密丹), visiting the court of the Tang dynasty. The Gathering...

Tajikistan Higher League (Tajik: Лигаи Олии Тоҷикистон; Russian: Высшая лига Таджикистана) is the top division of professional football in Tajikistan...

region comprising the Wakhan Corridor in northeast Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China. Badakhshan Province is...

Сангтуда; Tajik: Сангтӯда, Persian: سنگ‌توده) is a village and jamoat in Tajikistan. It is located in Danghara District in Khatlon Region. The jamoat has...

currently in present-day Uzbekistan but with a majority Tajik population and Balkh and Herat in Afghanistan. During the Soviet era, the principal literary...

Rasht Valley (Russian: Раштская долина; Tajik: Водии Рашт) is located in Tajikistan and composes a significant portion of the Region of Republican Subordination...

Balkhi District is 201,300 (January 2020 estimate). The district capital is Balkh (former name: Kolkhozobod). The district has an area of about 900 km2. The...

languages of the people of Khorasan and the east, the language of the people of Balkh is predominant." Dari Persian spoken in Afghanistan is not to be confused...

His brother and successor, Amr bin Laith, was defeated at the Battle of Balkh against Ismail Samani in 900. Amr bin Laith was forced to surrender most...

Tazraq is a village in Balkh Province, in northern Afghanistan. It is located near the border with Tajikistan, located on the Amu Darya river which forms...

This is a list of cities in Tajikistan. The largest metropolitan area in Tajikistan is that of the capital Dushanbe, with 1,563,400 inhabitants (2024...

(/ˈɒksəs/ OK-səss), is a major river in Central Asia, which flows through Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan. Rising in the Pamir Mountains...

or Bāhlīka. Wilhelm Eilers proposed that the region was named after the Balkh River (in Greek transliteration Βάκτρος) from underlying Bāxtri-, itself...

borders the provinces of Takhar, Baghlan, Samangan and Balkh, as well as the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan. The Kunduz Airport is located next to the provincial...