Oxus
Americannoun
noun
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Beginning in the ninth century in the Abbasid Caliphate, rulers purchased Turks from beyond the Oxus River in central Asia to serve as soldiers for the state.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
All that had happened was that its course, like the shape-shifting Oxus, had changed.
From New York Times • May 11, 2020
"This will be one of the most remarkable win-win situations of recent times," said Bhalla, chairman of Oxus Investments, a New Delhi hedge fund.
From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2012
“I’ve lost a lot of hair over the last 20 years trying to work out why governments continue to throw money at these companies,” says Oxus Fund Management’s Bhalla.
From BusinessWeek • Sep. 5, 2011
The next great accession to our knowledge of central Asiatic geography was gained with the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission of 1884-1886, when Afghan Turkestan and the Oxus regions were mapped by Colonel Sir T.H.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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