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Commander in Chief
Appointed Commander in Chief in Balkh & Badakhstan
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Balkh in India. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Appointed Commander in Chief in Balkh & Badakhstan
Aurangzeb takes responsibility for Mughal operations around Balkh during the Central Asian campaign.
Shah Jahan makes Aurangzeb governor of Balkh and Badakhshan (near modern Turkmenistan and Afghanistan), replacing Aurangzebs ineffective brother Murad Baksh
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