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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Oxus? Here are some examples.
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Towards evening on the day of our departure from Khanka we came to the Oxus. |
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| Sogdiana, the territory between the upper Oxus and upper Jaxartes, the latter dividing it from central Asia. |
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| The valleys of the Oxus and jaxartes are very fertile, but the rest of the extensive province is almost a desert. |
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| It is elsewhere stated that the Khariab is another name for the Oxus or Jihun. |
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| At any rate he trusted them, and it was with their assistance that he reached the source of the Oxus. |
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| A khanate situated in the valley of the lower Oxus, bordering Bokhara on the southeast. |
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| As they approached the Oxus it was found necessary to employ a Turkman guard. |
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| These contrasts were most striking on the upper Oxus, in Sogdiana and Margiana. |
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| The Oxus, in the time of the Achaemenian kings, fell into the Caspian by a channel which can even now be traced. |
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| They also defended it against the Persians, and defeated them on the Oxus. |
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| From his proud citadel at Ecbatana he ruled from the Halys to the Oxus. |
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| Wood and Bodkin have also run an expedition on horseback in efforts to locate the fabled source of the Oxus in the ice caves of the Wakhan. |
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| They found the Oxus, a mighty stream, swollen with melting snows. |
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| It was and is the great high-road of Badakshan in the Oxus plains. |
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| After passing the Oxus the chief interest of Burnes' story commences. |
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| But once over the Oxus his story hardly concerns the gates of India. |
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| Ardooyriver was the same as Oxus river which was the biggest, longest, widest and with the highest water level river of Iran during ancient times. |
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| This treasure received the name of Amu Darya Treasure or Oxus Treasure. |
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