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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANDKHUI

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 965 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANDKHUI , a town and khanate in Afghan
Turkestan
 . The town (said to have been founded by Alexander the
Great
 ) stands between the northern spurs of the Paropamisus and the Oxus; it is roc) m. due west of Balkh on the edge of the Turkman desert. The khanate is of importance as being one of the most northern in Afghanistan, on the Russian border. Until 182o it was subject to
Bokhara
 , but in that year Mahmud
Khan
  besieged it for four months, took it by
storm
  and left it a heap of ruins. To preserve himself from utter destruction the
khan
  threw himself into the arms of the Afghans. The
tract
  in which Andkhui stands is fertile, but proverbially unhealthy; the Persians account it " a
hell
  upon earth " by reason of its scorching sands, brackish water, flies and scorpions. The population, estimated at 15,000, consists principally of Turkmans with a mixture of Uzbegs and a few Tajiks. The
district
  was allotted to Afghanistan by the Russo-Afghan boundary commission of 1885.


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