Proper noun
Oxus
The Amu Darya river.
An Indus Valley site has been found on the Oxus River at Shortugai in northern Afghanistan. Source: Internet
Bactria was located in northern Afghanistan (present-day Afghan Turkestan ) between the mountain range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya ( Oxus ) River and some areas of current south Tajikistan. Source: Internet
Less and less water flowed down the Uzboy until, in the 1720s, the river's surface flow completely dried up. citation Russian troops crossing Amu Darya, c. 1873 The first Englishman to reach the Oxus, William Moorcroft visited about 1824. Source: Internet
In the mid-12th century an independent state of Khorazm along the Oxus River broke away from the weakening Karakitai, but the bulk of the Kara-Khitan lasted until the Mongol invasion of Genghis Khan from 1219 to 1221. Source: Internet
New Edition, edited by his son, with an essay on the "Geography of the Valley of the Oxus" by Henry Yule. Source: Internet
So far as the northern boundary followed the Oxus stream, under the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush, it was only separated by the length of these slopes (some 8 or 10 miles) from the southern boundary along the crest. Source: Internet