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 | | It lies on the right bank of the middle Oxus, between 37 and 41 N., and between 62 and 72 E., and is bounded by the Russian governments of Syr-darya, Samarkand and Ferghana on the N., the Pamirs on. |
 | | The chief river of Bokhara is the Oxus or Amu-darya, which separates it from Afghanistan on the south, and then flows along its south-west border. |
 | | Somewhat later the nomad Yue-chi began to move into the valley of the Oxus from the east, and gradually became a settled territorial power in Bactria and Sogdiana, and the dominions of their king, Kadphises I. (who is believed to have come to the throne about A.D. 45), extended from Bokhara to the Indus. |
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