Balkh is a town in the Balkh Province of Afghanistan. It is located approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the northwest of the provincial capital city...
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Look up Balkh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Balkh (Bactra in the ancient era) is a city in Afghanistan. Balkh may also refer to: Balkh Province,...
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Balkh (Pashto: بلخ، Dari: بلخ, romanized: Balx) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country. It is divided into 15...
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Balkh Airlines was a short-lived airline headquartered in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. From 1996 to 1997, it operated passenger flights out of Mazar-e-Sharif...
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The Battle of Balkh took place between the armies of the Samanid Empire under the command of Emir Isma'il ibn Ahmad and Saffarid forces under Emir Amr...
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just Kabul, Herat, Qandahar, and Balkh but the number of provinces increased and by 1880 the provinces consisted of Balkh, Herat, Qandahar, Ghazni, Jalalabad...
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Balkh University (Persian: دانشگاه بلخ; Pashto: د بلخ پوهنتون) is a public university located in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh Province in northern...
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The siege of Balkh can refer to one of these historical events: Siege of Balkh (1370), by Timur Siege of Balkh (1447), during the Timurid Civil Wars Siege...
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List of cricket grounds in Afghanistan (redirect from Balkh Cricket Stadium)
Construction of the ground was funded by a $100,000 grant by the Asian Cricket Council. Balkh Cricket Stadium Mazar-i-Sharif Unknown Under Construction...
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Mazar-i-Sharif (category Balkh Province)
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...
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The Balkh Legends (Pashto: د بلخ اتلان Da Balkh Atalān; Persian: قهرمانان بلخ) are a franchise cricket team which participates in the Afghanistan Premier...
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Panjsher Balkh (Tajik: Панҷшер Балх) is football club from Balkh, Tajikistan. FC Panjsher was founded in 1973 under the name "Trud" during Soviet times...
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The Afghan Conquest of Balkh took place from the spring of 1849, to January 1850. Dost Mohammad Khan returned to the throne following the First Anglo-Afghan...
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Balakh Sher Mazari (redirect from Balkh Sher Mazari)
Sardar Mir Balakh Sher Mazari (Urdu: بلخ شیر مزاری; 8 July 1928 – 4 November 2022) was a Pakistani politician who served as Caretaker Prime Minister of...
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Kushka, Balkh is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan. Balkh Province "NGA GeoName Database". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency....
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Balkh (Tajik: Балх), before 2017: Kolkhozobod or Kolkhozabad (Russian transliteration), is a town in Tajikistan and not to be confused with the ancient...
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The Balkh River (Persian: دریای بلخاب; Pashto: د بلخ سیند) or Balkhab, also known in its upper reaches as the Band-e Amir River, is a river in northern...
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The siege of Balkh was a key success in Timur's rise to power and established him as the ruler of the western Chagatai Khanate in Transoxiana. The Timurid...
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Karnameye Balkh or Karname-ye Balkh (Persian: کارنامه بلخ, lit. 'workbook of Balkh') is one of the works of Sanai and it contain his poet's composed when...
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Atta Muhammad Nur (category Governors of Balkh Province)
exiled politician and former Mujahid Leader who served as the Governor of Balkh Province in Afghanistan from 2004 to January 25, 2018. An ethnic Tajik,...
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troops are said to have annihilated the Khwarazmian cities of Herat and Balkh as well as Bamyan. The destruction caused by the Mongols forced many locals...
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a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan. The village is located in Dawlatabad, a landlocked district in northwestern Balkh province, in northern...
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therefore sent his son, Mohammad Akram Khan, to invade Balkh in the Spring of 1849. The invasion of Balkh was successful and the province was annexed into Afghanistan...
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(former governor of Mawarannah) close to Tashkent. Timur gained followers in Balkh, consisting of merchants, fellow tribesmen, Muslim clergy, aristocracy and...
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Central Asian Arabic (redirect from Balkh Arabic language)
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...
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Rumi (category People from Balkh)
the Faith". Balkhī and Rūmī are his nisbas, meaning, respectively, "from Balkh" and "from Rûm", as he was from the Sultanate of Rûm in Anatolia. According...
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indigenous to Karategin, Tajikistan, but now living in the regions between Balkh and Kabul, in North Afghanistan. In the 16th century they were expelled...
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The province incorporated the territories of the present-day provinces of Balkh, Kunduz, Jowzjan, Sar-e Pol, and Faryab. In 1890, Qataghan-Badakhshan Province...
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Bazarak is a village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan. Balkh Province "NGA GeoNames Database". National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Retrieved...
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