Bokhara


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Bo·kha·ra

 (bō-kär′ə, -KHä′rə)
See Bukhoro.

Bokhara

(bʊˈxɑːrə)
n
(Placename) a variant spelling of Bukhara

Bu•kha•ra

(bʊˈkɑr ə, bu-)

also Bokhara



n.
1. a city in S central Uzbekistan, W of Samarkand. 236,000.
2. a former khanate in SW Asia: now incorporated into Uzbekistan.
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I left the road and went around through a stretch of pasture that was always cropped short in summer, where the gaillardia came up year after year and matted over the ground with the deep, velvety red that is in Bokhara carpets.
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O, my uncle, this cloth knew not the weavers of Samarkand, and those colours were never made in the vats of Bokhara.
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To the west, Bokhara, and, even to the south and west, Afghanistan, were swallowed up.
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Once one of the most important educational establishments in the Muslim world, the sense of history here is palpable as I observe the students in their black suits and Bokhara caps.
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Both Samarkand and Bokhara, are rich and full of historical references and after being subdued for long time emerging again to renew and revive their true and proper identity.
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He went to Afghanistan, and in 1926, toward the end of the winter, he left Herat on the first stage of his long homeward journey, going through Marv in Russian Turkestan, to Samarkand, Bokhara, and Tashkent, and thence across the Turkoman steppes to the Urals and Moscow.
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