What is "bokhara"

Usage examples of "bokhara".

The names of oasis cities like Samarkand, Bokhara, and Kashgar breathe romance.

The British spread northwest from India while the Russians moved south, eventually annexing the independent Central Asian khanates of Khiva, Bokhara, and Kokand into what came to be called Soviet Central Asia.

Amir of Bokhara had imprisoned two British army officers, Colonel Charles Stoddart and Lieutenant Arthur Conolly.

Wolff successfully reached Bokhara, only to learn that the two officers had already been executed.

He was in Bokhara for months, and he swears that no Englishman was executed there.

Early last year he was sent on a mission to Bokhara, to ask for the release of all the Russian slaves being held there.

The idea was to remove any provocation that would give Russia an excuse to invade the khanate, since Britain prefers Bokhara to remain independent.

The Amir of Bokhara is dangerous and unpredictable and he dislikes Europeans.

Constantinople to Bokhara, and there is no reliable method of learning what happens there.

The Persian merchant I spoke with this morning was in Bokhara recently and he swears that he heard nothing to indicate that a European has been executed.

I have been so distracted that I forgot that you went to Bokhara with Lieutenant Burnes several years ago.

The only conclusion Ross could draw was that he would never learn the truth without going to Bokhara himself.

He would have to return alive from Bokhara before he could borrow any books.

Many of the villagers were taken to Bokhara as slaves, and others left for safer places.

But he had survived, and confronting the Amir of Bokhara should be easy compared to facing and accepting his own failings.