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  • On page 62 the word Bokhara appears with a macron (straight line), over the first 'a' and has been formatted for this version without the macron.

    The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband

  • The name Bokhara would seem to indicate as much, but it is also found in many parts of Europe, and if the facts were known, was doubtless brought from Europe to North America by the first settlers.

    Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880

  • It is possibly more widely known by the name Bokhara than by any other designation.

    Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880

  • Sweet clover (_Melilotus alba_), sometimes called Bokhara, which will grow equally well North and South, is worthy of attention because of its power to grow under hard conditions, in order to provide honey for bees and to renovate soils.

    Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880

  • The city where he dwells is called Bokhara (which is also the name of the whole country).

    Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

  • Cristobal and I climbed into Bellavista's largest gay club complex called Bokhara, and found a cabaret stage show going on upstairs, a neon-lit basement dancefloor, and a chatty outdoor café, all packed with out gays of all ages and stripes.

    247Gay.com 2009

  • Cristobal and I climbed into Bellavista's largest gay club complex called Bokhara, and found a cabaret stage show going on upstairs, a neon-lit basement dancefloor, and a chatty outdoor café, all packed with out gays of all ages and stripes.

    247Gay.com 2009

  • Moslem propaganda is spread by traders and others working from centres of Islamic learning outside Chinese territory, such as Bokhara and Samarkand in Russian

    Pan-Islam

  • The tradition of inquiry and scholarship reaches far beyond Baghdad: to Samarkand and Bokhara, to Cairo and Cordoba.

    Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review Tim Radford 2010

  • Bokhara, and, even to the south and west, Afghanistan, were swallowed up.

    THE UNPARALLELED INVASION 2010

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