Boghar

(See also Bactra.) Bokara, capital of the country of the same name in central Asia. Jenkinson writes: “We arrived at the citie of Boghar in the land of Bactria. The Citie is very great, and the houses for the most part of earth, but there are also many houses, temples, and monuments of stone sumptuously builded, and gilt, and specially bath stoves so artificially built, that the like thereof is not in the world. This Countrey of Boghar was sometime subject to the Persians, and do now speake the Persian tongue, There is yerely but yet now it is a king do me of itselfe. great resort of March ants to this Citie of Boghar, which travaile in great Caravans from the countries thereabout adjoining, as India, Balgh, Ru ia, with divers others, and in times past from.... ch069.xhtml c 72