lived in Balkh before migrating westward. However, their home was not in the actual city ofBalkh, since the mid-eighth century a center of Muslim culture
grants $10m for BalkhUniversity Archived 2008-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, Pajhwok Afghan News. ప్రభుత్వ అధికారిక సైటులు Official website of Afghanistan
(1996). The "Ancient Supremacy": Bukhara, Afghanistan and the Battle for Balkh, 1731–1901. BRILL Academic. pp. 74 with footnote. ISBN 978-90-04-10399-3