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BADGHIS (" home of the winds ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 188 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BADGHIS (" See also:home of the winds ")  , a See also:district on the See also:north-See also:west of See also:Afghanistan, between the See also:Murghab and Hari Rud See also:rivers, extending as far northward as the edge of the See also:desert of Sarakhs . , It includes the Chul formations through which the Russo-Afghan boundary runs . This region was surveyed by the boundarycommission of 1885 . Since that date it has been largely settled by the See also:amir with purely Afghan tribes .

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