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PRONUNCIATION OF BALKH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BALKH

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Balkh is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BALKH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Balkh

Balkh

Balkh was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan. Today it is a small town in the province of Balkh, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km south of the Amu Darya. It was one of the major cities of Khorasan, since the latter's earliest history. Marco Polo described Balkh as a "noble and great city". The ancient city of Balkh was under the Greeks renamed Bactra, giving its name to Bactria. It was mostly known as the centre and capital of Bactria or Tokharistan. Balkh is now for the most part a mass of ruins, situated some 12 km from the right bank of the seasonally flowing Balkh River, at an elevation of about 365 m. Outside the town was a large Buddhist monastery later known as Naubahar.

Definition of Balkh in the English dictionary

The definition of Balkh in the dictionary is a region of N Afghanistan, corresponding to ancient Bactria. Chief town: Mazar-i-Sharif.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BALKH


Salk
sɔːlk
SWALK
swɔːlk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BALKH

Balkan
Balkan Mountains
Balkan Peninsula
Balkan States
Balkanisation
Balkanise
Balkanised
Balkanization
Balkanize
Balkanized
Balkans
balker
Balkhash
balkier
balkiest
balkily
balkiness
balkingly
Balkis

WORDS THAT END LIKE BALKH

ankh
Kazakh
kh
lakh
Nagorno-Karabakh
Oistrakh
rajpramukh
samekh
sheikh
Sikh

Synonyms and antonyms of Balkh in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Balkh» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BALKH

Find out the translation of Balkh to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Balkh from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Balkh» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

巴尔赫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Balkh
570 millions of speakers

English

Balkh
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बल्ख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بلخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Балх
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Balkh
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাল্খ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Balkh
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Balkh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Balkh
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バルフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

발흐
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Balkh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Balkh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பால்க்கில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाल्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Belh
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Balkh
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Balkh
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Балх
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Balkh
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Μπαλκ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Balkh
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Balkh
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Balkh
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Balkh

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BALKH»

The term «Balkh» is regularly used and occupies the 96.000 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BALKH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Balkh

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BALKH»

Discover the use of Balkh in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Balkh and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The "Ancient Supremacy": Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle ...
Based on records in the India Office Library the book is a detailed political and social history of the province of Balkh.
Jonathan L. Lee, 1996
2
Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the ...
This book provides the first in-depth study of the sacred sites and landscape of medieval Balkh, in today's northern Afghanistan, in the five centuries from the Islamic conquests of the eighth century to the arrival of the Mongols in the ...
Arezou Azad, 2013
3
International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania
Location: Balkh (ancient Bactra), in the Amu Darya (Oxus) Basin, is approximately nine miles west of Mazar-i-Sharif and forty-six miles south of the Amu Darya River. Description: Once fabled as a town of ancient splendors, Balkh retains few ...
Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, 1996
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Afghanistan. Ediz. Inglese:
BALKH AND THE WEED What Helmand Province is to opium poppies, Balkh Province is to cannabis. The distinctive plants can be seen growing everywhere, and are particularly visible on the road between Balkh and Mazar-e Sharif, often  ...
Paul Clammer, 2007
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Travels Into Bokhara, Being the Account of a Journey from ...
Toorkmania, then, is that country lying south of the Oxus or Toorkistan, stretching from Balkh to the shores of the Caspian, and filling up the space between that sea and the Aral. On the south it is bounded by hills, the continuation of Hindoo ...
Alexander Burnes, 1834
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The Oriental Herald
We have extracted from the 8th number of the ' Quarterly Oriental Magazine and Review/ just published, the following extracts, relative to Balkh, Khulm, and Kunduz; they are taken from the journal of Mir Izzet Ullah, the agent and precursor of ...
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Balkh Province, Including: Balkh, Khulmi District, Sholgara ...
This particular book contains chapters focused on Balkh Province, Districts of Balkh Province, People from Balkh Province, People from Mazar-e-Sharif, Populated places in Balkh Province, and History of Balkh Province.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Muqarnas:
BALKH. TEXT / \ __ ) ( \\ ) ( \\. The study of the stately residences of the political and military elites of Iran and Central Asia in the early modern (or late medieval) period presents a number of problems not encountered with other types of ...
Gülru Necipoğlu, Karen A. Leal, 2009
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Balkh
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Balkh (Persian/Pashto: Ancient Greek: Baktra or Zariaspa), was an ancient city and centre of Zoroastrianism in what is now northern Afghanistan.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
10
Researches and Missionary Labours Among the Jews, ...
BALKH. From Aishaun Khoja, and the rest of the Mullahs, I was informed again that Balkh had been built by a son of Adam, and that it was first called Hanah, then Halah, then Balakh, and, after this, Balkh. (Compare Genesis iv. 17, with 2 Kings ...
Joseph Wolff, 1835

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BALKH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Balkh is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ata Mohd Noor proposes 11 nominees for the Ministry of Defense
Ata Mohd Noor The acting governor of northern Balkh province and chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami party Ata Mohammad Noor has proposed ... «Khaama Press, Jul 15»
2
Afghanistan's Underbelly: The Exposed North
The capital of Afghanistan's northern Balkh Province has undergone a huge transformation since then, and today is arguably the country's most ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Jul 15»
3
Patrolling in Balkh Province
The military servicemen of Reinforced Company of IV Mechanized Brigade of GAF deployed at the German base in Balkh Province, and carried ... «Messenger.ge, Jul 15»
4
Afghan Army General Arrested For Trafficking Heroin
The brigadier general commanded a recruitment center in Balkh Province. Provincial police spokesman Ahmad Jawed Basharat said he was ... «RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Jul 15»
5
Afghan official: 3 children killed by mortar while playing
Gen. Abdul Samad Habib, who commanded a recruitment center in Balkh province, has been charged with drug smuggling,. Copyright 2015 ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
6
Destruction of private arms cache causes uproar in Afghanistan
Abdullah, as well as other figures in Jamiat-e-Islami, such as Foreign Minister Salahudin Rabbani, Balkh province governor Atta Mohammad ... «VideoNewsUs, Jul 15»
7
More than 160 killed in major attacks in Afghanistan in June
In another attack, the militants killed nine aid workers of a government-run development project in relatively peaceful northern Balkh province ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
8
Afghan army general arrested for drug trafficking
Counter Narcotics Director Nezamuddin Nezam said that a general from the recruitment division in northern Balkh province was arrested by the ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
9
Army officer among 3 detained with drugs in Baghlan
Nizamuddin Nizam said a military recruitment commander in northern Balkh province, Abdul Samad, had been arrested along with two soldiers ... «Pajhwok Afghan News, Jun 15»
10
Afghan Political Rivals Join Forces to Fight Militants
Atta Mohammad Noor, the head of northern Balkh province, said this week that their supporters would join forces to retake territory from the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»

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